As Mid Autumn Day is coming, will you try wine and moon cakes?

Wine contains rich amino acid and mineral substance and vitamins, which can neutralize greasy tastes of moon cakes. Different styles of moon cakes should match different wines.

• Yolk and lotus seed paste: light white wine. E.g. 2018 Sevenhill Inigo Riesling
• Meat taste: Argentina red wine. E.g. 2013 Luigi Bosca Gala 1
• Sweetened bean paste: sweet style wine. E.g. 2012 Château Lestevenie Saussignac 500ml
• Snow skin moon cake: sparkling. E.g. 2016 Pizzolato Prosecco Spumante Brut
• Five kernel moon cake: Chardonnay. E.g. 2015 Pitchfork Chardonnay Margaret River

The matches are different from that of last year. Please try the new tastes!

The 8th Decanter Asia Wine Awards launched this week, from 3 Sep to 6 Sep. Seven international professors composed chairman jury and over 50 Asian experts are visiting Hong Kong, from a consumer’s perspective, rate and taste more than 3000 types of wine from 34 countries.

Jeannie Cho Lee MW made a speech: “whatever the world may be, wine should be our common language.”

Decanter Asian Wine Awards (DAWA) is the sister event of Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), the biggest wine competition worldwide. DAWA mainly focuses on Asian market.

The awards list will be released later September.

We will keep you posted.

We carry many Pinot Noir wines and take 2012 Tukipo River Estate Fat Duck Pinot Noir and 2010 Wild South Pinot Noir for example, which food would be their best matches?

Let’s check below together.

• Sauced duck: the most classical match, duck and Pinot Noir. Higher acidity Pinot Noir could relieve duck oily taste.
• Italian mushroom rice: anytime when you eat mushroom rice, you may try Pinot Noir, because soft and abundant mushroom rice would stand out Pinot Noir wine special fruitful aroma.
• Grilled Salmon and trout: fish often doesn’t match very well with red wine, because the bitter tannins would strengthen fishy smell. However, if you prepare a very fresh grilled salmon or trout, then it would become the best match with Pinot Noir.
• Pizza: strong red wine always is the best with cheese, bread and Pizza.

Would you like to try the above matches?

The Wine Business School of Sonoma State University has researched a topic regarding effect of environment changes to enterprises.  It shows the longer history and bigger enterprises have more effective methods to take.

There’re 11784 samples of wine enterprises worldwide, among which there’re 338 samples deeply interviewed. 58% of samples are small wine companies and 56% of samples have no more than 20 years histories.

When natural and economic environment changes take place, wine enterprises would often adopt three strategies, updating training methods and contents, innovating management and control system and steps, and changing management style.

However, smaller wine companies would tend to make new sales and marketing strategies and compete with peers to adapt to indeterminacy of development.

Overall those larger wine enterprises have longer advantages of sustainable development.

Bordeaux grapes are about to be picked, but the cellars are full of wines.

This year and last year many economists and eCommerce big data indicate the consumption trend is changing all the time. 

One very apparent trend: French people prefer rose, white and sparklings, compared with red wine “ripe and steady” and rose is younger, more energetic and easier to drink. Rose’s pink color and best matches with transparent glass and beautiful sights are very popular to be shared on social media by young people.

This trend is not only in France, but also in many other countries.

And Bordeaux produces 80% red wines, others only 20%.

However, Burgundy oversea sales are over 3 billion Euros and are increased by 12.3% compared with last year. The biggest oversea markets are USA and UK. Even though, President Trump would increase French wine taxes, which haven’t been taken place due to many reasons. US market is still steady and optimistic.