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Wine Connection Singapore remains open, both its wine shops and restaurants for takeaways.

‘Le Vigne will remain OPEN every day!’ Patricia Britton. Singapore begins a semi-lockdown today with offices – except those providing essential services – closed and a ban on dining at restaurants, food courts and hawker centres excepting takeaways. Wine and liquor retail stores have been classified as: “Essential Services and …

Singapore will be closing schools starting Wednesday 8 April 2020. And implementing full home-based learning. All pre-schools will also close. Except for essential services and key services, workplaces will also close for a month beginning Tuesday 7 April 2020. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong continues his live broadcast on state …

Accor – the French hospitality giant with 39 brands and 5,000 hotels in 110 countries – is closing two-thirds of its hotels because of Covid 19. Ninety of the countries where Accor has hotels are under travel bans or/and quarantines. Shares of Accor for the year to date have plummeted …

PAUL PONTALLIER 22 April 1957 – 28 March 2016 By CH’NG Poh Tiong Part III of III Paul Pontallier left behind 33 grapechildren between 1983 and 2016. Some of those teenagers such as Chateau Margaux 2009 and 2010, and his last vintage, the infant 2015, will live, thrive, astound and impress …

It has one of the most arresting views of the Singapore skyline. Situated in the ION shopping mall on the intersection of Orchard and Scotts Road – a super prime location – Salt Grill & Sky Bar on the 55th floor will serve its last dinner tonight, a casualty of Covid …

PAUL PONTALLIER 22 April 1957 – 28 March 2016 By CH’NG Poh Tiong Part II of III This is the second of three articles to commemorate the life of my friend. This photograph was taken in February 2001. Paul had invited me to taste batches of 100% cabernet sauvignon, 100% …

Decanter has cancelled DAWA 2020. Launched in 2012 and held annually in Hong Kong in September, the cancellation is the result of the Covid 19 pandemic. In cancelling DAWA 2020, Decanter has now moved Decanter World Wine Awards to the week of 28 September 2020 (originally, the judging was scheduled …

PAUL PONTALLIER 22 April 1957 – 28 March 2016 By CH’NG Poh Tiong Part I of III Tomorrow, 28 March 2020, is the fourth anniversary of the passing of Paul Pontallier. This is the first of three articles to remember my friend. Paul and I in Chengdu for a Chateau …

Veronique Guibert de La Vaissiere, co-founder of Mas de Daumas Gassac, is an ethnologist who after receiving her Master’s Degree in Psychology and her Ph D in Ethnology, dedicated herself to doing field research in Ireland since 1968. Her book Les quatre Fetes d’ouverture de Saison de l’Irlande ancienne expounds …