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 …
French Wine Paradox: What to buy with 500 kuai
By Jim Boyce It is one thing to try wines and another to buy them. The first helps you learn what you like while the …
The Hilton Food & Wine Experience: Ten thoughts
By Jim Boyce Ten thoughts – all I can manage after a heavy weekend of tasting – about last Saturday’s eleventh annual Hilton Food & …
Price trumps product: The wines of China producer Chateau Junding
By Jim Boyce I wrote Monday about Chinese boutique wineries leveraging their local know-how to target moneyed customers at home. Case in point: Chateau Junding. …
Beijing tasting time: Hilton Food & Wine Experience, and more
One of the best Beijing wine events of the year – The Hilton Food & Wine Experience – is tomorrow (Saturday) from 5 to 8 …