Category Archives: Wine

Back on the menu: The Friday food fight

After a break of several weeks, sibling blog Grape Wall of China is back with the Friday food fight. Each week, a Chinese dish is presented and readers are asked…

What wine goes with guacamole?

Fresh from her UFO, a female alien speaking fluent English, bearing the physique of a comely woman of our own species (with glowing green skin and cute antenae to boot), and holding two…

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…

Beijing Boyce XXVI: Opening Shots

TRIO has taken The Park Grill and The Cellar down a few notches and now offers a more affordable wine list (see Hanky Panky at Frankie’s below). / An investor…

Beijing Boyce XXIII: Closing Shots

I had planned to review Face, Bed, L’Etage and A-Che in this issue, but have simply been too busy of late and this newsletter is already one week overdue. I’ll…

Trio: An adventurous threesome

Beijing‘s bar scene is picking up, with Browns, Midnight and The Pavillion all recent and welcome additions. I have a feeling that Trio, to open late March, will join them….

5:19: It’s Moldova time!

5:19. Four kinds of wine from Moldova (!) (RMB40 / glass); feels like a 1980s recreation room (where’s the Atari and Pong?); a bit chilly given the stone block floor;…