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Brandy, Armagnac & Cognac aficionados are well aware South Africa, Spain and France produce most of the greatest brandies in the world. These great eaux-de-vies, once tasted, never forgotten. For the first time together at a public tasting in Singapore. Three top brandies exclusively flown in from South Africa at …

“2019 delivers some fantastic wines, both white and red … Harmony, balance and freshness are definitely the hallmarks … The reds show fine, integrated tannins and bright finishes …extremely aromatic and perfumed from the outset, with complexity in fruit and soil-derived nuances such as flowers, wet earth, mushrooms and bark …

NEW CHAMPAGNE We have a new champagne and an extra dish to ICCCW Welcome Dinner Friday 25 November 2022. Book early to avoid disappointment at https://www.chngpohtiong.com/icccw-welcome-dinner-2022/. Amour de Deutz is inspired by the cherub that stands in the courtyard of Aÿ-based Champagne Deutz NEW MASTERCLASS We are delighted to inform …

The Welcome Dinner of this year’s ICCCW – International Congress of Chinese Cuisine & Wine – will be Friday 25 November 2022. Venue will be Min Jiang • Goodwood Park with Chef CHAN Hwan Kee doing the honours. Master Chef CHAN Hwan Kee Chef Chan will have a brilliant supporting cast …

The first four vintages of the 21st Century reaffirm that weather conditions contribute dramatically to the final wine BORDEAUX 2000, 2001, 2002 & 2003CLIMATE • WEATHER • TEMPERATURES The first four vintages of the 21st Century – assuming you consider 2000 as belonging to the 21st rather than as the final vintage of …

IWA5 Founder Richard Geoffroy emphasizing a point about Assemblage 3 Richard Geoffroy launched IWA5 Assemblage 3 in Singapore on 5 July 2022. The former Cellarmaster of Dom Perignon had arrived from Toyama – where IWA5 is located – following the lifting of travel restrictions to Japan. (Toyama is about 400 km north-west of Tokyo). In …

Like mentor, like mentee. Left, Lisa Perotti-Brown and Robert Parker (right) LISA PEROTTI-BROWN • TELL IT LIKE IT ISBY CH’NG Poh Tiong Ten years ago in 2012, Robert Parker sold the Wine Advocate. Founded in 1978, the American lawyer was inspired by the activist Ralph Nader who – in the words of http://robertparker.com/ – ‘“out” …

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