Stamp specialist to hold Hong Kong wine auction
A Geneva-based stamp specialist, David Feldman Auctions, is to hold wine sales in Hong Kong – with an 1894 Barolo as a highlight lot.
Maggie Rosen is a wine journalist, editor and author, hailing from New York but based in London. Aside from Decanter, she has contributed to the Financial Times, The Drinks Business, Harpers Wine and Spirit Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, The World of Fine Wine and Meininger's Wine Business International. She is also a member of the Circle of Wine Writers.
A Geneva-based stamp specialist, David Feldman Auctions, is to hold wine sales in Hong Kong – with an 1894 Barolo as a highlight lot.
California-based Spectrum Wine Auctions is working with London luxury drinks merchant Vanquish to launch a UK auction business.
Teams from Wharton and Harvard business schools have reached the final round of the 20 sur Vin trivia and tasting competition organised by the Commanderie de Bontemps.
Acker Merrall & Condit's first Hong Kong auction of 2011 fetched over US$10m – with some prices trouncing the higher-profile Lloyd Webber sale at Sotheby’s.
Chateau Lafite – and Andrew Lloyd Webber – have proved as potent a draw as ever in the latest Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction.
Vinexpo has won its case against the Italian promoter it accused of unfair business practices.
Paul Henry, formerly head of marketing at the Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation (AWBC), has joined wine industry research firm Wine Intelligence as associate director.
Acker Merreall & Condit's final Hong Kong auction of the year, held 10 and 11 December, achieved HK$51.2m (US$7.95m).
A chain of California-themed wine bars launching across Asia will open its first branch in January in Hong Kong.
Held in London on 8 December, Sotheby’s Finest and Rarest Wines, Spirits & Vintage Port capped off a year when wine sales broke numerous records for single bottles, lots and totals – buoyed in large part by Asian buyers’ thirst for Chateau Lafite.
Dozens of cases of ultra-collectible Lafite, Margaux, Domaine de la Romanee Conti and other wines come under the hammer in Hong Kong next month as Andrew Lloyd Webber puts part of his cellar up for auction.
A new financial evaluation of the controversial Mosel Bridge proves the project is not worth completing, say opponents of the bridge.
Christie’s latest Hong Kong wine auction, held 26 and 27 November, has fetched HK$80,322,600 (£6,601,526) – capping off the auction house's Asia wine department's best year ever in the region.
Wine and spirits magnate Bernard Magrez has bought his 36th property - a rosé-producing domaine in the Côte de Provence - for an undisclosed sum.
The Crédit Municipal de Paris – the city of Paris's treasury – is hosting its second annual wine auction, on 16 November, at its offices in the Marais.
Champagne has lost its appeal to stop nuclear waste from being stored within a few miles of its vineyards in the Aube.
The Champagne region is embroiled in a legal battle to prevent the French national atomic agency ANDRA from dumping nuclear waste near its vineyards.
Organisers of the annual Hospices de Beaune auction are woong Chinese buyers for the first time with local tastings of the Burgundies slated for sale on 21 November.
New York anticipates a larger and much earlier harvest this year than it had in 2009.
A sparkling Riesling from New York's Finger Lakes region has taken the top prize at the 25th New York Wine & Food Classic competition.
One of the few remaining bottles of ex-cellar 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay has been sold by Spectrum Wine Auctions for $11,325 (£7,419).