Millesima, a fine wine merchant company based in Bordeaux has launched a dedicated Hong Kong site to offer Bordeaux En Primeur wine direct to consumer.

Millesima was founded by Patrick Bernard in 1983 and is Europe’s leading fine wine merchant. They are one of the top five buyers of “Grands Crus Classés” in the world and offers an extensive range of Grands Crus Classés wine from Bordeaux from all vintages in the past 15 years.  They offer an amazing range of over 2.5 million bottles of wine in their cellars and their wine list includes not only the Cru Classés and Cru Bourgeois from Bordeaux but also wines from the best estates in the Rhône, Burgundy, Alsace and Champagne region.

The Hong Kong website is geared up to launch their up coming 2009 vintage en primeur wine direct to consumer. This is exciting news for wine connoisseurs and investors as Bordeaux en primeur wine have traditionally been offered exclusively to trade members and difficult for those without the right connection to buy.

As the interest in Grand Crus from Bordeaux wine heats up in this part of the world, Millesima is concentrating its efforts to offer en primeur to the more sophisticated Hong Kong wine market.

Millesima has been a wine merchant of Bordeaux wine for over 20 years and served more than 57,000 satisfied customers across 99 countries. Their commitment and knowledge of the range of top Bordeaux wine is recognised by the international wine press and members of the trade.

How Millesima is different from other wine merchants is that they buy their wine exclusively, direct from the producing estate (no middleman) and then the bottles or barrels are kept in only one of two cellars, the Chateaux’s own cellar or Millesima’s two hundred year-old cellars.  Patrick Bernard and his team taste the wines several times a year to ensure all wines selected are in excellent condition and meet Millesima’s quality standards. Millesima’s cellar guarantees optimum conditions for storing wines and should you ever be in Bordeaux, be sure to call on the cellar for a tour.

For more information:

www.millesima.com.hk

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Bacchus & Century opens its doors this weekend, to what may be the first luxury wine boutique of its kind in the world.

The brainchild of two Hong Kong Chinese French partners, Eric Liu (photo below) and Rene Wong whose passion for French wine have led them to accumulate more than 10,000 bottles of French vintage wine over the years. Bacchus & Century is the accomplishment of twenty years of intense research, perseverance on specifically French vintage wines. On the opening day, they have in one place, 101 consecutive years of French vintage wines from 1900 AD to 2000, all 3,000 bottles stored in their Lang Kwai Fong boutique’s cellar.

Their decision to open Bacchus & Century is to make available their treasures, (100 years of vintage French wines, hence the name Bacchus & Century) to the discerning wine lover in Hong Kong.  What Bacchus & Century offers is a completely bespoke service unlike what you’ll find in Hong Kong or anywhere else in the world.

The wine boutique is dressed like a boudoir of collectible items except the only item collected is of the drinkable rare kind. A consultation with Eric, the “shop’s guardian” will ensure that you discover the perfect bottle to match your taste, occasion, budget (price starts at HK$1000) and determine the bottle that is right and meaningful for you.

They only carry the rarest, finest wine, champagne and spirits – so you’ll definitely find bottles of the most prestigious ‘maisons’; Lafite Rothschild, Mouton Rothschild, Latour, Haut Brion, Margaux, Cheval Blanc, Ausone, Petrus and Domaine de la Romanee Conti.  If you are looking for a table wine for a barbecue, this is not the place to go.

Want to impress your boss who’s a wine connoisseur or find the vintage the year your dad was born? Make an appointment with Eric, he knows his stuff and you’ll discover something rare and special, not so easily found anywhere else… not a bad proposition we think.

Bacchus & Century

• Shop 3, G/F, 32 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong.
• Tel:6681 1825

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DG Cafe & Wine Cellar is Hong Kong new wine cellar club built to cater to the growing popularity of fine wine connoisseurs in Hong Kong.  The DG Cafe & Wine Cellar has a dinning room, wine boutique, bar lounge area, function room, VIP room and a state of the art wine cellar.

DG Cafe & Wine Cellar offers personalized wine cellaring to members and the cellar has the capacity to hold up to 20,000 bottles of wine.

It is designed to be  place where wine lovers can have a private place to relax, dine, store their wine and gather to learn about wine.  The cellar is installed with the latest climatic control monitoring facilities and is equipped with a 24-hour surveillance camera. With thousands, if not millions of dollars worth of investment wine being stored, this place is guarded like a fortress.

Where?

2 Creasy Road, Jardine’s Lookout, Hong Kong

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