Must Custom Winery Lets You Make Your Own Perfect Bottle

Wine goes DIY in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong has its very own winery, so why not its very own wine laboratory?! Must Custom Winery is a new shop that has opened in Central that allows you to mix your perfect wine on the premises and enjoy it anywhere.

We recently sat down with owner Canadian Ed Stengel to talk about his new shop on Queen’s Road Central about why making your own personal label wine is the realization of the perfect wine dream.

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Vinum Fine Wines Opens at Cepage

Cepage has opened their own wine retail store in Hong Kong.

Cepage, Hong Kong’s French restaurant with a Micheline-star reputation, has opened their very own wine retail store on the restaurant’s ground floor in Wanchai. Vinum Fine Wines is part of the Les Amis Group which owns the Cepage restaurant group and Vinum Fine Wines retail store.

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‘First Wine’ Brings A Fine Selection of Boutique Italian Wine to Wan Chai

Find the best Italy has to offer in Wan Chai.

Looking for something more Italian for your wine this holiday? You might find what you’re looking for at First Wine, a wine company importing Italian fine wines from boutique wineries and bringing them to Hong Kong. Winebuzz.hk recently sat down with Mr. Agata Meuti, manager of First Wine, to talk about Italian wine and what to expect from their shop.

What are 3 things to find when buying Italian wine at First Wine in Hong Kong?

1. Typical Italian grapes such as Sangiovese, Nebbiolo, Prosecco, Vermentino, Malvasia are produced in very old wineries (some of them have been around for more than 100 years, and one is more than 1000 years old!!!) These wineries are run by families, with a very close attention to quality.
2. The wines have been imported for the first time in Asia.
3. Quality with exceptional prices – we have wines ranging from HK$100 to HK$400 a bottle.

What are some of the more popular regions for Italian wines that you carry or don’t carry?

We have wines from Tuscany, Piedmont, Veneto, Friuli, Emilia Romagna, Umbria, Abbruzzo. None from Southern Italy yet….but soon! 65 personally selected labels! Tenute Guicciardini Strozzi, Il Palazzone, Aziendda Agricola Talenti, Le Vigne di Alice, San Gervasio, La Caudrina.

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Bacchus & Century: Hong Kong’s First Luxury Wine Boutique Opens

A Hong Kong wine shop unlike any other.

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.

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