Since my new book, The 100 Burgundy: Exceptional Wines for Your Cellar was
released end of July, I’ve been in the midst of an intense and exciting book tour with ten events held around the world. A huge thank you to my publisher
Assouline and to the venues that provided their space, time and created memorable Burgundy-themed events: Lucque
s in Los Angeles, Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, Hong Kong Club, Bookazine Hong Kong,
Marriott Taipei,
Resort World Sentosa,
Mandarin Oriental Singapore,
La Cabotte in London and Maison
Assouline in London and at the Four Seasons NYC.
There are still six more book events schedule for the upcoming few months including Caves Legrand Paris, Athenaeum Beaune, Hyatt Beijing and Interwine Guangzhou. For more details, please visit Upcoming Events, watch the videos of the events here, and to order your own copy, click here.
As Vice-Chair of the Decanter Asia Wine Awards 2019, now in its 5th year, I was very happy to see gold medals being awarded to wines from Greece, India, Japan and Georgia; for full results click here. This is definitely the best wine competition in Asia and also the best judged by over 50 incredibly talented wine professionals mainly from Asia. Just after DAWA I flew to Italy where I was honored to receive the 2019 International Masi Prize Award for Wine Culture!
The first inaugural Wine Pinnacle Awards, a nomination-based global competition with a 54-member jury made of mostly Masters of Wine and Master Sommeliers, was extremely well received last month. I am delighted that we recognized wines that normally slip through normal fee-based competitions – for full results view here.
I hope to see many of you this week at the Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair where Asia Wine Academy (AWA) is now in its 3rd year! As part of AWA’s program, I will be conducting two masterclasses on Cabernet Sauvignon from around the world and another two classes will be led by Yang Lu MS. To view the schedule and sign up for the classes, click here. On December 19th I will be conducting a horizontal of Richebourg including Domaine de la Romanee-Conti and Domaine Hudelot-Noellat at PIIN - for more details, click here. For most of November I will be in Burgundy and New York City so as always, I look forward to connecting with you via Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, WeChat or Weibo.
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