Wines News & People
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 [...]
John Kapon, Acker Merrall & Condit 酒 Jiuwine.com met up with Mr. John Kapon, a casual and unassuming fellow who is also the co-owner and President of Acker Merrall & Condit during his visit to Hong Kong for Asia’s largest ever auction of fine wines in Hong Kong this week, betting on Chinese consumers who over [...]
Hong Kong’s Glamorous Wine Sale From Acker Merrall & Condit Asia’s US$8.2M wine auction Text by Daniel Lim with input from Kenneth Lee. Picture: The Hong Kong dollar with its city as a destination for wine trade, shines with a string of wine auctions, and events lining up in this year. Picture: Auction in progress with John Kapon at [...]
Merlot Wine Style: A light to medium bodied wine with fewer types of tannin and takes well to oak and bottle aging. It’s used frequently as a blending wine with Cabernet Sauvignon. Flavors: Origin: Bordeaux in France Found: Most if not all of the wine-growing regions Merlot is very productive, ripens early, thin skin dark blue grape variety and is adaptable [...]
Wine: Grape wall of China By Anthony Rose Saturday, 10 May 2008 Last month, a Beijing-based billionaire splashed out £250,000 on 27 bottles of wine – a far cry from what the man and woman in the street spends in China. What they drink is largely the £1-a-bottle home-grown brands from big wine companies like Changyu, Great Wall, [...]
Northern Rhone Cornas (隆河) Click to View: Map of Northern Rhone Cornas is situated directly south of Saint-Joseph, and west of the river Rhône. It is 12 km south of Tournon and directly east of Valence. Importantly temperatures are hotter than Hermitage which is only 7km away. Its a small appellation located in a south-facing [...]
2000 Château Léoville Las Cases France, Bordeaux, St. Julien Quantity Available: 2 Asking Price: S$600.00 each (Nett) Condition: Very good, near perfect. Wine is cellared in a wine cellar in Singapore. Château Léoville Las Cases is one of the largest and oldest classified growths in the Médoc. It is the largest of the 3 Léoville properties and now without [...]