Wine Word: Zeon Chow, Rutherford Bench & Napa Reserve
By Jim Boyce Last month, Shanghai-based Rutherford Bench celebrated its first year of business. I talked to deputy general manager Zeon Chow about the rationale …
Weekly wine events: From post to page
My weekly listing of Beijing wine events poses a couple of problems. First, it sometimes gets buried quickly beneath new posts. Second, I get event …
Friday food fight: Hairy crabs
Let’s take the spice level way down this week and claw away at a food that fits the season: hairy crabs. Writes Shanghai Daily: “For …
Tasting time Beijing: St. Supery, South Africa, Mundo Vino, and more
By Jim Boyce After a light summer of wine events, Beijing’s distributors are back in force with a slew of them. Palette Wines will get …
Grape press: Ch’ng creates translation system for chateaus
Decanter reports that Singapore-based wine publisher, writer, and consultant Ch’ng Poh Tiong has created a new system of “phonetic translation“ that covers the names of …
Corked wine in China: The fault with no name
By Frankie Zhao – The thing with corked wine in that Chinese consumers often don’t know it when they taste it. I have attended big …
Grape Press: Macau wine tax, China as Chile, Hart Davis Hart auction
Some (fairly) recent stories about the China wine scene… – Macau plays the odds, scraps its wine tax As noted, gambling den Macau has followed …
Cafe Europa: Refreshed wine list, Parker points program
Jianwai Soho restaurant Café Europa launched its new wine list on September 18 with a by-the-glass tasting. I sipped through eight of the dozen samples …
Lost in translation: A Rose is a Rose is a Rose?
By Ma Huiqin When I was asked for an English-Chinese list of wine grape varieties for this blog, I considered the best way to provide …
Tasting time: Beijing
By Jim Boyce Upcoming wine events in Beijing Thursday, September 18, 7 PM, Café Europa (Jianwai SOHO), RMB15+ per half-glass By-the-glass tasting of new wine …