French Wine

10 May 2013

It makes perfect sense for Patrice Bersac to live and work in Paris' Bercy district, just a short stroll from the restored wine warehouses of Cour Saint-Emilion, now converted to cafes and bars...

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Beauty and the berry

5 Oct 2012

Treatments good enough to eat are on the menu at new spa Château de Cîteaux in France's Burgundy region. Giovanna Dunmall samples the goods.

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French wine price rises likely to be restrained

2 Oct 2012

Devotees of fine French wine can relax, your favoured tipple should not become significantly more expensive over the coming year.

4:06AM

Trouble with bubbles

13 Sep 2012

First the bad news: there is going to be a lot less champagne this year. But the good news is that what there is could be outstanding.

12:02PM

The corkscrew: in the pink

9 Sep 2012

Rosé, is often regarded as a frivolous tipple. The wine may even make some people shiver in revulsion, especially if they've had a bad experience with one (think Gallo's White Zinfandel - a...

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Burgundy winery's buyer is Stanley Ho's right-hand man, Louis Ng

25 Aug 2012

The man behind the purchase of a Burgundy winery that has caused an uproar in France has been revealed as Louis Ng Chi-sing, the right-hand man of Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho Hung-sun.

2:50AM

Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

4 comments

4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

5 comments

4:27AM

Asian Grapevine

In 2003 I managed to visit the top three Chinese wineries: Dynasty, Changyu and Great Wall.

7:47PM

Russian breathes life into underrated region

Apologies if this sounds a little mean-spirited, but French wine regions don't get much more unfashionable than Bergerac.

4:54PM

Younger generation injects breath of fresh air

Bordeaux, defined by the classification system of 1855, is a region associated with history and tradition, and most of the world's most expensive wines.

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Uruguay still a hidden gem on world stage

It was easy way back when, Jancis Robinson commented while she was studying for her master of wine, because there so were few wine-producing countries and wine-producing regions. Today, it is...

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TOP tipples

Nicolas Pierron, Head Sommelier, Island Shangri-La

3:57PM

Wine expo looks north, where palates gain polish

Hong Kong is about to pop the cork on the world's biggest wine and spirits expo amid explosive growth in the increasingly sophisticated and lucrative mainland market.

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