Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: - Scottish distillers look to take on the dominant Scotch whisky industry with craft gin and alternative whiskies aged in barrels not…
Sauce aroma? Light aroma? Phoenix aroma? As China becomes a bigger player in the worlds of wine and spirits, the differences between Eastern and Western flavors—not only in familiarity and…
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: - Super-premium rum is on the rise, with a more than 400% increase in sales from 2003. - An…
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-osphere. - A Chinese architect spent four months and used 8,500 discarded beer bottles to build the second floor of his…
Bordeaux sales dropped drastically last year because of a poor 2013 harvest and slowing demand in China, reports The Guardian. China has long been a main export market for Bordeaux, and…
Wine estates in Bordeaux do not demand the prices they once did. New World wine competition cut into their share, and for fifteen years, Bordeaux real estate depreciated. Yet recently,…
Tony Perrottet for The Wall Street Journal takes an in-depth look at China's growing supply and demand for artisanal delicacies, and that of wine in particular, despite the long-standing stereotypes…
While China's wine consumption has gone up over the past decade, cultivating nearly 14 million drinkers, Bordeaux has profited from the country's attention and its wallets. In Margaux, one Chinese energy company even…
A mixed lot of legendary Burgundy producer Domain de la Romanée-Conti wines, considered by many to be the best in the world, sold for 1.6 million dollars at a Sotheby's…
Luxury wine producer Moët Hennessy is later this month launching its first line of sparkling wines from grapes grown entirely on Chinese soil, reports ABC News. The move, they say,…
