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 […]

June 19th 2008
Japanese market trends
by Ned Goodwin in Japan

Picture: A wine shop in a train station.
Based on market statistics for 2007, it is possible to cast predictions for forthcoming trends in the Japanese market during 2008 and beyond.
France
Imported volume of still wine from France in 2007 declined by 4.5% to 5.95m cases. Volume of bottled […]

Traditional markets shun Bordeaux futures
Jun 9, 2008

Picture: Partial view of Bordeaux’s Haut Brion’ wine storehouse.

Picture: A woman tastes wine at the prestigious Haut Brion’ winehouse, in Pessac, Bordeaux.
With the majority of chateaux owners refusing to cut prices by any significant amount and as demand remains soft, the 2007 Bordeaux wine “primeurs,” or futures, campaign is […]

Yquem, Cheval ‘tricky’ to sell?
June 20, 2008
Sophie Kevany in Bordeaux

Chateau d’Yquem and Cheval Blanc are on the market with mixed messages from the trade as to their saleability.
Yquem was released yesterday at €330 euro ex-chateau, up about 9% on the €300 ex-chateau price for 2006.
Cheval Blanc 2007, released earlier this week at €320 ex-chateau, was […]

Hong Kong Wine Auction Fetches Record HK$64 Million, Acker Says
By Le-Min Lim
Last Updated: May 31, 2008 09:44 EDT

Picture: Singaporean, Singgih Gunawan is seen after buying a case containing 12 bottles of Romanee-Conti, vintage 1990, at a fine wine auction in a hotel in Hong Kong on May 31, 2008. The case was sold to […]

Asian wine auction uncorks $8.2 mln in sales
Sat May 31, 2008 9:13am EDT
By James Pomfret, with editing by Elizabeth Piper.

Picture: Italian Cecilia Piacitelly is seen after successfully buying a case of 6 magnums of Chateau Mouton Rothschild, vintage 1945 at a fine wine auction in a hotel in Hong Kong on May 31, 2008. Piacitelly […]

The other Vinexpo - a’buzzing
May 29, 2008

Above: Events unfolding at Vinexpo 2008, in Hong Kong. Images courtesy of Cheers (CN).
You may wonder why there have been so few releases of the 2007 bordeaux this week (only Evangile, a cool £850 a dozen at J&B)– or if you operate in or around the wine trade, you […]