Corks vs. screw tops, Bali wine, and Santa Claus: Just another Friday night with Frank
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Month: December 2008
Aussie rules: A team from Down Under tackles terroir
– By Jim Boyce Three things impressed me at a recent Landmark Australia event in Beijing: The inspired Australian approach to promoting wine in China …
Grape Press – Frankenwine: Chinese scientists make shocking discovery
— By Jim Boyce Call it Frankenwine. According to the The Daily Telegraph, a system is being developed in China that uses electrical equipment to speed …
Foxy grapey: Chinese wines from Yunnan, Ningxia, Hebei
By Jim Boyce On Monday night, I tried three Chinese wines at Duck de Chine with a group of beverage researchers that included visiting Aussie …
Tasting time Beijing: Taittinger, Gerard Bertrand, I Am Paradox
The parade of wine events continues in Beijing with the next few days seeing more than a half-dozen tastings and dinners. Tonight sees everything from …
Jeremy Oliver: China book launch slated for March
By Jim Boyce Australian wine critic Jeremy Oliver, who spent the past week in Shanghai and Beijing, will soon reach out to the local market. …
Wine Word: Top Cellar GM Julien Bonnard
By Jim Boyce Wine importer and retailer Top Cellar started business about two years ago in Beijing. I talked to GM Julien Bonnard about the …
A mystery solved: What does Foreign Girl taste like?
What does Foreign Girl taste like? Strawberries. So concluded a group that last night tried a bottle of this liquid concocted by Chang Bai Shan …
ASC opens Hong Kong office
– By Jim Boyce I have been mulling over a post about Hong Kong-based wine distributors such as Watson’s and Links moving into Beijing and …
Grape Press: Latour in Hong Kong, Halliday in Taiwan, mangosteens in Thailand
Some China-related wine news from the Web… – Halliday in Taiwan Food Week reports that Australian wine critic James Halliday is heading to Taipei this …