Last Updated: July 24, 2008 02:42 EDT
Christie’s to Hold Its First Hong Kong Wine Sale in 7 Years
By Le-Min Lim

Christie’s International will restart its Asian wine auctions in Hong Kong after a seven-year break as record sales by rivals such as Bonhams show the city’s demand for the collectible beverage is rising.
The 250-lot sale […]

July 24th 2008
Christie’s returns to Asia

Pictures: Christie’s spring auction in Hong Kong. Image courtesy of 曼妮的閒晃世界Mani ’s lounging world / Mani 曼妮. 
Fine wine auctioneer Christie’s is joining the stampede to Hong Kong, where it will hold an auction of Château Latour this November, helping to seal Hong Kong’s reputation as the new wine […]

China nouveau riche get taste of fine wine investing
Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:30am EDT
By Samuel Shen

Shanghai - Well-heeled Chinese can now invest in fine wines via the mainland’s first “wine futures”, but the vintages on offer are from aspiring local vineyards rather than rare Bordeaux labels.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and CITIC Bank, two […]

ICBC (中國工商銀行) launches China’s first wine trust
www.chinaview.cn
2008-07-15 08:46:17

Beijing: China’s largest bank has launched the country’s first wine trust project, in the hope that alternative investments may prove to be fruitful amid the sluggish global capital market.
The trust was initiated by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China National Cereals, Oil & Foodstuffs Corp […]

Branding is everything in China’s expanding wine market
Jancis Robinson, Special to The Chronicle
Friday, July 11, 2008

Above: A bottle of 1993 Chateau Lafite Rothschild (拉菲堡).
Those of us who read articles about wine probably believe that wine sells on the basis of its quality. A few wine lovers believe that price is at least as important. (I […]

Hong Kong may import Bordeaux Fête le Vin (香港有可能進口波爾多葡萄酒節 “Fête le Vin”)
July 2, 2008
Sophie Kevany in Bordeaux

Hong Kong wine officials want to bring the Bordeaux Wine Festival to the island.
The three-day Bordeaux Fête le Vin attracted 450,000 visitors last week, and trade representatives in Hong Kong see it as a good way of developing the […]

Winery taps into the Chinese wine market
Filippi brand to be sold on far-off shelves
Wendy Leung, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 06/29/2008 07:42:09 PM PDT

Above: Joseph Filippi Winery. Images Supplied.
The Chinese straying from tea as their beverage of choice shouldn’t be hard to believe.
It didn’t take long after the red curtain was raised in the late 1970s for […]