Beyond Bordeaux in Hong Kong

David Rogers
Features
5 min read
Hong Kong. A city of more than 7 million people shoehorned into a small parcel of land on China’s southeastern coast. This is an Asian city with a growing Western influence, with food and drink a central cultural tenet. Despite a rapid growth in middle-class incomes since the mid-1990s, the

Undiscovered Uruguay

Michelle Locke
Feature Stories
4 min read
Harvest is under way and internationally known enologist Alberto Antonini is giving a master class on the coming vintage. Behind him, framed in the large windows of the new winery, a landscape of terraced vineyards unfolds under a lacy blue sky, a view reminiscent of his native Italy. But these

The world’s most pathetic wine grape

W. Blake Gray
Features
6 min read
This story is about the world's most pathetic wine grape. Its history is exaggerated. It was used for a few decades to play one role that is no longer needed, yet still people grow it – though even its proponents don't think it has much virtue. It reminds me of the

What kind of pink will China drink?

Erika Szymanski
Features
5 min read
It's no secret that the wine drunk in China is, overwhelmingly, red. Chinese tradition has it that red is a prosperous color. Red wines Some Chinese drinkers see red wine as having health benefits, good for the skin or for blood circulation. Wine consumption is often a social status-building move

Clairet: the Super-Rosé?

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
4 min read
Several years ago when I was on assignment in Bordeaux, one of the winemakers I interviewed was Esme Johnstone, a former major British wine merchant who had taken up residence as director of Château de Sours near Saint-Quentin-de-Baron.  His biggest opportunity, Johnstone told me, was to make loads of rosé