Sophie Thorpe, a member of our Marketing team, espouses the virtues of all that effervesces in Italy’s wine industry and discovers it’s not all about the Prosecco As far as the Italian sparkling wine category is concerned, Prosecco is the dominant style, thanks to its easy-drinking nature and association with Giuseppe Cipriani’s fêted cocktail, the […]

Following a recent trip to the orient Jasper Morris MW reports back on the state of the Chinese wine industry and the challenges facing it. I was agog to see the countryside of central China from the air, once we had escaped from the more humid and polluted atmosphere of the eastern seaboard. As we began […]

Jessica Poon, a Private Account Manager in our Hong Kong office, takes some well-earned time off to explore the land down under’s lesser-known – yet no less rewarding – wine territories Having recently been awarded a WSET scholarship from Wine Australia, I spent 10 days visiting Australia’s wine regions and was once again struck by the […]

Recently returned from our annual tasting trip to Burgundy, Matthew Tipping, our Fine Wine Sales Manager, reports on an industry in the throes of change In recent years the Burgundy market has changed almost beyond recognition, with demand worldwide spiking dramatically. The vast majority of Burgundians are not large corporations, rather small family domaines that […]