Summer Wines at Marks & Spencer

Wines to drink this summer.

Marks & Spencer may not be the first place you think of for wines but they have a wine selection that should not be overlooked. Wines sourced at Marks & Spencer have won more awards than other UK wine retailers as they benchmarked their selection against the best wines in the market.

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Tasting with Tersina: Brazilian Bubblies in Hong Kong

Tersina Shieh reports about Brazilian bubblies.

I don’t think many of us have tried Brazilian wine, let alone Brazilian sparkling wine. Therefore I was pleased to be invited to the Casa Valduga tasting. It is one of the largest and oldest wineries in Vale dos Vinhedos in the south of Brazil. The climate is humid and temperate but luckily the vineyards, located at between 450m and 650m above sea level, are cooled by the mountain breeze.

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Debra Meiburg’s Guide to the Hong Kong Wine Trade to be Published in November

Our local Master of Wine publishes the definitive guidebook.

Debra Meiburg – our favorite Hong Kong-based Master of Wine – has put together something the local wine market needs…badly, in our opinion!

Since 2008′s deregulation, Hong Kong’s wine market is as hard to chart as it is red-hot. With 40 winemakers a day sending them requests for advice, F&B professionals are bemoaning the glut of importers and wine lovers still unsure as to where to find a great Grüner Veltliner. So, to tackle this challenge the team at Meiburg Wine Media sensed a book-shaped hole in the market.

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Shenzen Wine Fair: International Beverage Exhibition

The wine world turns its eyes to China’s growing wine drinkers.

The size, sophistication and spending power of the Chinese consumer is quickly changing the way the beverage industry does business. In a few short years, a growing population of well educated, increasingly young Chinese have developed a taste for wine. At the International Beverage Exhibition, held this July 14-16 in Shenzhen, the 2nd year the fair is running we see how the wine market is taking shape.
 
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Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Wine & Spirit Competition Results Announced

The very best wines for Asian tastes in over 100 categories.

We wrote about the competition way back in June and the results are finally in!

One of the main events at the Hong Kong International Wine and Spirits Fair was the winners picks in the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Wine & Spirit Competition.

The judges came from Hong Kong, India, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, People’s Republic of China and South Korea, and all results were independently audited by KPMG.

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