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Local team make it to Bordeaux finals.
Last week at the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong and handful of teams from local Universities competed at the 11th annual French Bordeaux tasting competition – the ‘Left Bank Bordeaux Cup’.
After a grueling session of tasting and analyzing wines, the Hong Kong City team won and will go onto France in June to compete at the finals.
The finest wines in the world?
Probably the most temperamental and difficult wine variety to grow, Pinot Noir is credited with making some of the finest wines in the world. Although grown all over the globe, with very different results, the homeland for Pinot Noir and the place that made the varietal famous is Burgundy in central France.
Last night brought out the sweet wines to TST.
Sweet Bordeaux had a succesful tasting at Hullet House last night in Tsim Sha Tsui where many producers came out to showcase the sweet side of Bordeaux.
Separated into 2 sessions so that everyone could get a chance to taste before and after dinner – it seemed that the early session decided not to leave and the later session got so packed it spilled out into the beautiful Hullet House courtyard.
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Original home of Malbec, Cahors, going through a renaissance.
Many people still haven’t heard about Cahorseven though it’s one of the oldest wine regions in Europe and used to be the wine of choice for Kings and Tsars, as the original pioneer of Malbec (some 1,600 years before Argentina). However, this small province in South West France is still way below the radar of most wine drinkers around the world…but that’s all about to change.
Malbec is one of the trendiest grapes around – but who is leading the pack?
Most people have heard of Malbec but, rightly or wrongly, in recent years it’s Argentina that has put the fruity red grape variety back on the map. The history of this grape actually goes rather far back in the grapevines of time and it was Cahors in France, the birthplace of Malbec, that made it the wine of Kings and Tsars for around 2,000 years.
Mr. Fritsch talks to us about Alsace wine and its growing popularity in Asia.
As an Oenologist for Conseil Interprofesionnel des Vins d’Alsace (CIVA), Mr. Thierry Fritch has been lecturing in Asia about Alsace wine (France) since 1997.
Based in Alsace himself for most of the year, Mr. Fritch spends two months of the year in Asia and another 3-4 months travelling the world talking about the beauty and elegance of his local wine.
We had a chance to sit down with the connoisseur when he was attending the big Alsace promotional push at a grand dinner at Tsui Hang Village and at the Alsace Wine Fair in Causeway Bay.
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