Frenzy on the sales floor: Acker says Hong Kong wine auction sets 115 world records
By Jim Boyce Hong Kong had a super humungous wine auction last weekend if the press release from the organizer — Acker Merral & Conduit …
Pre-ProWein: China focus of Meininger’s one-day wine conference in Germany
~ By Jim Boyce ProWein is a massive annual German wine show with huge tents, oodles of oom-pah-pah bands and voluptuous leiderhosen-clad servers walking about …
Oh, great: Acker’s Hong Kong auction has lots from mystery men, Dujac, Roulot
By Jim Boyce The upcoming Acker Merrall & Condit wine auction in Hong Kong — the year’s first for the company — should be pretty, …
RVF Beijing ‘Salon’: On Nubes, 1421, Helan Mountain, Silver Heights, Helan Qing Xue
By Jim Boyce While my acquaintances described the recent La Revue du Vin de France ‘Beijing Salon’ as having too few vendors (~20 exhibitors at …
Wines under rmb50 in China: Helan Mountain Dry Red 2008
By Jim Boyce Last year I organized a contest called North by Northwest and included a bottle of Helan Mountain Dry Red 2008 in a …
British Bubbly in Beijing: New Year’s Eve with Chapel Down Pinot Reserve
By Jim Boyce English sparkling wine maker Chapel Down last appeared on this blog due to its presence ringside at White Collar Boxing in Beijing. …
Wines under å…ƒ100 in China: Grace Vineyard Chardonnay 2010
By Jim Boyce While Grace Vineyard Chardonnay 2010 did not make the top four in our recent Grape Wall Challenge, it did get good scores …
Grape Wall Challenge 2012: Summergate, ASC, MQ top wine challenge in China
~ By Jim Boyce (Note: Sorry for the delay. This blog went offline several days for — to me — unknown reasons and now is …
From cork to screw cap: Three wine closure anecdotes from China
~ By Jim Boyce While most wine in China — whether domestically produced or imported — is bottled under cork, and while I repeatedly hear …
Wine consumer power in China: Annual Grape Wall Challenge held in Beijing
By Jim Boyce They came, they sniffed, they sipped and they scored. The fourth annual Grape Wall Challenge — which features Chinese consumers judging wines …