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 [...]

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 1st in a series of 3 posts, followed by Shanghai and Hong Kong.)

The trip started [...]

A New Zealand winemaker friend sent me a message – “I am coming as usual to LIWF next week. Are you going to London? We could meet up for a beer?” Ironically while many New Zealand and Ozzie winemakers fly across Asia to Europe to attend the annual London Fair (a very popular fair [...]