Last month I was travelling in Asia with a group of winemakers participating in the International Wine Challenge Asian Trade Tastings, and everywhere talk was of the upcoming Mooncake or Mid-Autumn Festival. This is a popular Chinese lunar harvest festival, held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, (this year [...]

Portugal won 2 Silvers and 5 Bronzes at the 2010 Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Wine & Spirit Competition, one of the largest wine competitions in Asia. Cortes de Cima 2008, Cortes de Cima Touriga Nacional 2005, and Cortes de Cima Reserva 2004 came home with 3 of the 5 Bronze medals awarded to Portugal.
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Last month, when we were participating in Vinexpo Asia in Hong Kong, we ran into an old friend, winemaker Tersina Shieh. We last met Tersina here at Cortes de Cima, when she gave a helping hand out in the cellar for a spell, a few vintages ago. Tersina has now teamed up with Simon Tam [...]

On a modern day Sino-Luso vinous encounter last month we joined a group of Portuguese winemakers embarked on an epic journey to Beijing, Shanghai, Macau and Hong Kong, to showcase Portuguese wines to the booming Chinese market. This is the 3rd and last post.
Following Beijing and  Shanghai, the winemakers group moved on to Hong Kong [...]

Shanghai was the second hop on our Luso-Sino Wine Express in May, which started in Beijing (see previous post), and was to end in Macau and Hong Kong at Vinexpo Asia 2010 (next post).

We reached Shanghai just in time for the start of the SIAL China Food and Beverage Fair, where we again formed part of [...]