Wrap-up: The Hilton Food & Wine Experience
Rather than write a lengthy report about Saturday’s Food & Wine Experience at The Hilton, I thought it would be more fun to interview myself. Here we go: Was that…
Category Archives: Wine Tastings
Wine world: Torres Taste of Nations event
I would have given two thumbs up to Torres for last weekend’s Taste of the Nations, an event in Trader’s Hotel that featured some 150 of the distributor’s wines, but…
Cru for Blu: Wine feast to mark new eats joint
Shangri-La’s Blu Lobster will celebrate its opening by pairing Haut-Brion wine with a six-course dinner by the restaurant’s chef, Brian McKenna. Expect to leave heavier in the mid-section but lighter…
Opening Shots 31, Part 3: Wine Word
Wine Word: Expect to see Edward Ragg and Fongyee Walker, former Cambridge University Blind Wine Tasting Society captains, about town as they have relocated to Beijing. / Ex-ASC Fine Wines…
Flashback: A Taillan Tour in Photos
Pictures, pictures, pictures – that’s my friend Kraft-D’s advice for this blog. Last night, I dug up a few dozen from a November 2005 trip to Taillan, a winery just outside Beijing. Sequoia Cafe…
Say Cheese, Eh?
A dozen of us gathered on January 5 in Sanlitun Sequoia Cafe to try four wines and cheeses from Canada. As I had just returned from two weeks in The…
A Taste of Australia
I popped over to The Wine Cellar (Henderson Center, 3F) and met Garry Anderson, who is with both Auswine Alliance and Beijing GLP, which are representing Australian family-owned vineyards. Garry…
From Petrus to Pink Panties, Bordeaux to Budweiser
My spirits were high when Agent Red Wolf, O-Zone, Flash and I attended the November 24 Summergate wine tasting at China Lounge (150 kuai). Not only would we sample seven…
A glass of any other shape
My body has filtered its fair share of wine during the past decade, but it was only a few weeks ago at The Bookworm that I finally attended a Riedel…
Wine events galore
Torres will hold a “European Lifestyle Party” at the Sunstyle Show Room on June 10 (7-10 PM), with Torres (Spain), Baron Philippe De Rothschild (France) and Zonin (Italy) wines, and…
John Bull Pub: Taco time
John Bull Pub has been holding taco parties on Fridays. This is not Tex-Mex assembled in the kitchen using store-bought shells and refried beans, but a whole cart out front with…
Garden of Delights: Relax in an Ikea biosphere
Garden of Delights, a two-minute hop from Icehouse, hosted an ASC Spanish wine tasting (150 kuai) last week. This Latin American restaurant is long, narrow and high, with a curved…
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