Food Pairing: Coffee Macarons and Niepoort’s White Port

Macaron and port pairing.

Award-winning executive pastry chef Herve Lemonon from the Cake Shop at the Mandarin Macau makes a mean macaron. This time around, we’re pairing his delicious coffee macaron with port.

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China Wine Awards 2012

China Wine Awards for the most exciting wine market in the world.

Following the success of the first ever China Wine Awards in 2011, the CWA are back for 2012 – this time looking for the best value wines and spirits. The competition is the biggest of its kind specifically for the China market and its consumer.

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Australian Wine to China on The Rise

Last year, China become the third largest destination for Australian wine with sales shooting up to $201.5 million in 2011, behind only the major markets of the United States and the United Kingdom.

Wine sales to China and Hong Kong helped prevent a larger decline in Australian wine exports which fell to $1.89 billion last year as exports to the US and UK went into reverse.
 
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Food & Wine Pairing: Spicy Food

Which wines go best with chilli dishes?

Winebuzz.hk contributor Tersina Shieh gives us the lowdown.

No doubt you have heard someone (probably a westerner) saying that off-dry wines go well with spicy Asian dishes because they “tone down” the spiciness to make the food more palatable. But hang on a second – is that what we Chinese (or Asians, especially South Asians!) want – to eat spicy dishes without that fiery or numbing sensation we all know and love?

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Zachys’ First 2012 Auction On Its Way

Bordeaux and Rhone highlights at first auction of year on 7th January.

2012 is going to get to a bright start for wine collectors in Hong Kong with Zachys first auction of the year on the 7th January selling off some highly collectable Bordeaux and Rhone wines among others.

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