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Wine and Spirits
News and trends in luxury wine and spirits
last updated:
9 September, 2024
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100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory
Some of Hong Kong’s F&B leaders, including the team at Tell Camellia (pictured), talk about their resolution for 2025. Photo: Handout

Word on the StrEAT: Hong Kong’s F&B experts on their resolutions for 2025

Bar Q88’s new Flavours menu is inspired by the tangram puzzle. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for January 16-18

Black Sheep’s Chalet des Alpes is back, offering cured meats, raclette and fondue. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for January 17-19

The dressed Brighton Beach crab dish at Magistracy Dining Room elevates British cuisine with a twist. Photo: Magistracy Dining Room

Dish in Focus: Dressed crab at Magistracy Dining Room

Indulge in leisurely brunches in Hong Kong with PostMag’s curated list of 11 top spots, from chic Western fare to traditional Cantonese dim sum. Photo: Handout

11 best brunch options in Hong Kong for 2025

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Some of Hong Kong’s F&B leaders, including the team at Tell Camellia (pictured), talk about their resolution for 2025. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

Word on the StrEAT: Hong Kong’s F&B experts on their resolutions for 2025

Maintaining a healthier work-life balance, taking a break from social media and keeping an eye on the small steps to success are among the goals for the new year.

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Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for January 16-18

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for January 17-19

Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: Cigarette at Bar De Luxe

Inspired by a guest’s request, this punchy ‘bartender’s choice’ cocktail has won over fans with a spirit-forward profile that combines smoke, peat and herbal flavours and is now a menu staple.

The Cigarette cocktail at Hong Kong’s Bar De Luxe. Photo: Handout
Climate change

Outside In | The industry is in crisis, but wine lovers should hold their panic

The future looks dire with consumption pivoting away, especially in China and France, and grape growers worldwide hit by climate change, but the wine sector is a long-term sector.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for January 9-11

This weekend, enjoy a night of disco hits and dumplings, an afternoon of Aperol, and indulgent cocktails (or mocktails) at La Petite Maison.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for January 10-12

Prep your taste buds for a flavourful 2025 with Friday night pizzas, an exclusive kitchen takeover and harbourside afternoon tea.

Watermark’s Harbour Bliss Afternoon Tea menu is served from 3pm to 5pm daily.
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Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for January 3-4

Planning to dial down on the alcohol for the first month of 2025? Try these zero- or low-ABV cocktails, and tea-inspired or tea-infused libations.

Food and Drinks

Revived ‘ghost’ whisky distilleries release their first Scotch in decades

Shut in 1983, Scotland’s Brora and Port Ellen distilleries are open again and making old-style whiskies and new kinds at eye-watering prices.

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Drink in Focus: One Penicillin, One Tree at Penicillin cocktail bar

Garnished with an edible ‘leather’ strip made from papaya seeds and strawberries, this Penicillin whisky cocktail is made from waste – and incredibly delicious.

Penicillin bar’s delicious One Penicillin, One Tree whisky cocktail is infused with waste white chocolate, and garnished with an edible “leather” made from leftover papaya seeds and strawberries. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

Love wine? Why Australia’s Hunter Valley region is well worth a visit

Australia’s oldest wine region, Hunter Valley is home to traditional, modern and even kosher labels such as Tyrrell’s, Vinden and Harkham.

Harkham Wines in Hunter Valley, Australia, has an Italian restaurant that looks out over the Brokenback Mountain range. Photo: Nikko To
Chinese culture

The secrets of snake wine, long touted as good for health

Many believe that snake wine offers medicinal benefits, including improving blood circulation – but drinking it is not without its risks.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for December 27-29

This weekend, say farewell to a popular speakeasy, make the rounds of Hong Kong’s brightest new bars, and welcome the new year with booze-free tipples.

Wellness

Light to moderate wine drinking could be as good as statins for your heart

It’s often said light to moderate wine drinking is good for heart health – but how much wine is that? Scientists have put a number on it.

A bottle of wine a week could be as good as statins for heart health. Photo: Shutterstock
Food and Drinks

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, December 23-28

Indulge in Michelin-starred Christmas fare at Petrus, drink classic cocktails at Darkside, enjoy the harbourside AIA Carnival, and check out MGM Macau’s new show.

Darkside’s new cocktail menu features classic recipes from the 1920s and 1930s. Photo: DarkSide
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Drink in Focus: Festive Manhattan at DarkSide

This classic cocktail gets a thoroughly festive makeover for the holidays, complete with a side of panettone.

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Planning a sober Christmas? Tips on avoiding alcohol and having a good time

Sober coaches, sober bar managers and happily sober people give their tips on avoiding alcohol – one trick is to leave a party early.

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How to drink soju, and why having Korean spirit is like a polygraph test

Artist Funnyjun teaches non-Koreans the art of drinking soju. He says how people drink the moreish spirit reveals much about their character.

Artist Funnyjun teaches non-Koreans the art of drinking soju in his book How to Drink Soju. He equates a soju drinking session to a polygraph test, because how a person handles it reveals much about their character. Photo: Shutterstock
Food and Drinks

Your 100 Top Tables Hong Kong weekend drinks guide, for December 19-21

Enjoy a feast at Honky Tonks Tavern, indulge in Dr Seuss cocktails at Singular Concepts’ venues, and wrap up the holiday with some final drinks at DarkSide.

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Drink in Focus: Irish coffee at The Diplomat

This winter warmer, reportedly born at an airport in Ireland in the 1940s, gets a sumptuous upgrade at SoHo hotspot, The Diplomat.

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Shaoxing wine is for cooking, right? It’s on Michelin-star drink menus now

After a period of decline in which it was relegated to the kitchen, Shaoxing wine is finally reclaiming its status as a refined drink.

Artisanal Shaoxing wine brands such as Dong Qu make single vintages that are poured at top-tier restaurants. Photo: Dong Qu
Japan

Japanese women join the sake industry despite traditional exclusions

Mie Takahashi is one of a small group of female master sake brewers, made possible by changing gender norms and increased mechanisation.

Sake brewer Mie Takahashi. Photo: AP
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The secret to Bar Leone’s success, according to its owner Lorenzo Antinori

The lawyer turned bartender eschews the trend of too fancy cocktails and believes that creating the right atmosphere is a crucial part of the whole mix.

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Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for December 12-14

This weekend, enjoy cheeky concoctions on Peel Street, swing by a Japanese guest shift in mid-century Hong Kong surrounds, and enjoy Thai flavours at a one-night only takeover in Central.

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Why a Japanese spirit has been made with Thai rice for 600 years

Unlike sake, Okinawan spirit awamori is distilled, making it much more potent. To this day it is made with unpolished Thai long-grain rice.

The Okinawan speciality awamori, is a spirit made from Thai rice and distilled according to a 15th century Thai recipe. Photo: Shutterstock
Food and Drinks

How Shanghai’s academic Bunker bar is redefining intellectual nightlife

Bunker went viral this year, pioneering a new trend: academic bars, where people and professors meet to discuss burning topics over tipples.

Bunker, the Shanghai bar that went viral in China this summer. Photo: Xiu Chunlei
Hong Kong

PostMag Christmas gift guide: 9 ideas for the foodie in your life

From dumpling-shaped salt and pepper shakers to egg tart scented candles or a gourmet Christmas ham, snap these up for your reservation-making, dinner-party-throwing friend.

Hong Kong

PostMag Christmas gift guide: 9 ideas for the chill island dweller

We’ve picked out a jacket for pets, mushroom supplements, corduroy slip-ons, a Chinese checkers set, a hiker’s backpack and an indigo dye workshop.

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