30 some odd years ago, I visited Hong Kong for a brief 24 hours, enroute San Francisco, my previous home, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to where I was moving. I knew at the time, that I was doing the fascinating Chinese harbour city an injustice to spend so little time there, but I was in [...]

It wasn’t only Portuguese winemakers visiting Macau last month for the Wine and Gourmet Asia 2008. We bumped into a lot of familiar faces from back home in Portugal, such as that of masterchef Vitor Sobral, who was engaged by the grand casino resort MGM Grand Macau to show off at their incredible Rossio restaurant. [...]

Macau has long been a good market for Portuguese wines. The Portuguese first arrived there in 1550, and undoubtedly quickly passed their fondness for port and table wines to their Macanese hosts. Following the Chinese takeover in 1999, prosperity has grown in leaps and bounds for the 551,900 people. Today the [...]

From Asia to Portugal - from Portugal to Asia.
They say it is hot in Alentejo at the moment. Over 30 degrees in the shade, I HEAR. Actually, I have to resort to hearsay as I have spent the past week away from the winery,C more exactly at the beach in Lagos [...]