Golden Gate Wine Buffet Opens at Elgin’s Bar

One month long wine buffet at Elgin’s Bar in Soho.

Looking for a new venue to drink wine? Golden Gate Wine has set up a wine buffet featuring wine exclusively from the US at Elgin’s Bar on Elgin Street. And you guessed it, it’s a wine buffet so you can drink as much as you like! We suggest you taste your way through the 5 wines they’re presenting and go back for seconds for the ones you prefer.

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Chateau Guiraud Limited Edition Sweet Wine Gift box

An ideal Chinese New Year and Valentine ‘Sweet’ wine gift.

Maxford Wines is presenting Chateau Guiraud Limited Edition Sweet Wine Gift box from France. The wine gift box contains 3 test tube bottles (100ml each) selected from three vintages- 1996, 1998, 2002. The 1^st Grand Cru Classé of Chateau Guiraud’s wines, have been rated by Mr. Robert Parker from 89 – 93 points.

The sweet wine is best paired with foie gras, cheese cake and sweet pudding, making them a great wine to celebrate Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day. Read more

Piper Heidsieck Champagne Auction Dinner at Azure

A bubbly affair.

Piper Heidsieck is known for their high quality standards rigorously defined by Florens-Louis Heidsieck himself. Piper Heidsieck was founded by Florens-Louis Heidsieck on July 16, 1785, in Reims and made champagne from grapes sourced from 60 vineyards in the Champagne region.

On 28th January, the champagne house will be holding an auction dinner at Azure where Piper Heidsieck champagne will be served with dinner. Peter Kwong, Asia’s high ranking sommelier (Sommelier Championship 1997 in Paris), will be the guest speaker at the auction dinner. There is a lucky prize draw for 6 limited edition V&R design Rose champagnes and 3 boxes of 6 rare champagne glasses by Riedel.

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Chivas Regal 18 Special Edition by Christian Lacroix

Chivarly meets Haut Couture.

Following the successful collaboration with the late Alexander McQueen in 2008, Chivas Regal has commissioned Christian Lacroix to produced a special edition Chivas Regal 18 year old premium scotch whiskey.

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Sotheby’s Andrew Lloyd Webber Wine Auction Brings in HK$43.3 Million

This auction was definitely no phantom.

Whether he’s writing music or selling wine, it seems Andrew Llyod Webber can’t lose.

The auction for his wine collection which took place on Saturday in Hong Kong at the Mandarin Oriental was a smashing success as they might say in the opera community. By the numbers:

• The auction was 6 hours long.
• 100% of the 740 lots were sold.
• Sotheby’s expected HK$32 million, they got HK$43.3 million
• 53% of the buyers bid online.
• 97% of the lots got higher prices than expected. So that’s only 3% of so-so wine and evidence that Andrew has a good nose as well as a good ear.

Another amazing wine auction and some standouts were :

• 12 Bottles of Chateau Petrus 1982: Sold for HK$605,000 on estimates of HK$320-480,000
• 12 bottles of Chateau Lafite 1982: Sold for HK$459,800 on estimates of HK$240-400,000
• 11 bottles of Chateau Petrus 1982: Also sold for HK$459,800 on estimates of HK$280-420,000

Sotheby’s is back in April with more auction action.

Photos from Spanish Wine Tasting at Vintelligence

Stellar turn-out for Spanish wine lovers.

Vintelligence is a wine club in Wan Chai tucked away neatly on Thompson Road and this past Saturday we dropped by the Spanish Wine Tasting that was held there.

Several of Hong Kong’s biggest wine distributors brought out their very best Spanish wines and were all very enthusiastic about Hong Kong’s recent building interest in Spanish as well as Italian wines.

Those tasting could order from Vintelligence and arrange for delivery the next day and we of course highly encourage Winebuzz readers to come out for all tastings in Hong Kong to really get an idea of the choices that out there and get some information before buying.

Sommelier Danny Wong did a talk about the different types of Spanish wines and regions as well as a blind tasting competition. The only thing that was missing was some Spanish tapas, but Viva Ana was only a 5-minute walk away and where we took those still craving more Spanish wines to afterwards.

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