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HK bars and restaurants suffer after turbulent 2019

Months of protest, a decline in tourist numbers and economic recession have all added up to a brutal winter for Hong Kong retailers, hotels, restaurants and bars. October and November 2019 were the two months with the steepest plunge of retail sales on the city’s record – service industry is not getting any better and several prominent bars and restaurants have made the decision to close their doors. Entering the new year, Hemingway-themed bar The Sea announced it was closing up shop. Opened in March 2019, the bar is the sister venue of The Old Man, which nabbed the top spot in...

Top 10 food and drink trends for 2020

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Zero waste restaurants Silo in Hackney claims to be the world’s first zero waste restaurant Last year saw the rise of the closed-loop cocktail, with bartenders like Duck & Waffle’s Rich Woods and Dandelyan’s Ryan Chetiyawardana making use of ingredients most chefs and bartenders would throw away, from avocado stones and burnt toast to lemon husks. Cub champions closed-loop cocktails This year chefs will be following their zero waste lead in a movement pioneered in the UK by Doug McMaster, head chef of Silo in Hackney, which markets itself as the world’s first zero...

Eduardo Chadwick: ‘Chile has entered the club of world class wines’

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Comparative tasting wins, top scores from wine critics, and French distribution models, have ensured that ‘Chile has entered the club of world class wines’, according to Eduardo Chadwick, president of Viña Errázuriz. Eduardo Chadwick at his Don Maximiano Estate in the Aconcagua Valley where the producer has its ‘icon winery’ specially built for the production of top-end labels such as Don Maximiano and Seña Addressing a group of 30 Masters of Wine on a tour of Chile at the end of last year, Chadwick explained how Chile has managed to successfully...

12 London restaurant openings to watch in 2020

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Oklava Bakery + Wine Selin Kiazim and Laura Christie are turning their Turkish Cypriot restaurant Kyseri in Fitzrovia into a bakery by day and wine bar by night, which is set to open in January. Located on Grafton Way in Fitzrovia, Oklava Bakery + Wine will feature the kitchen and bakery at the front of the venue, alongside a shop and takeaway kiosk. Open from breakfast until dinner, the site will serve quality coffee and a plethora of pastries with a Turkish-Cypriot twist. Among the yeasty treats on offer will be simit – a bagel topped with sesame seeds; börek pastries with a variety...

The week in pictures

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In New Year’s Eve Parties to end them all, Nikki Beach on the Caribbean island of St Barth hosted its annual New Year’s Eve celebration, this time inspired by chateau chic meets punk rock. This year’s theme –“Rocking The Palace” –saw guests dancing away to a Queen-influenced show from Visionair, masterminded by DJ Kygo, who holds the record as the fastest artist to reach one billion streams on Spotify, and has worked with major artists including Rita Ora, Selena Gomez, John Legend and, posthumously, Whitney Houston for the chart-breaking hit remix of...

Vinexpo CEO: ‘If we don’t do anything then in five years’ time we are dead’

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Facing competition from the likes of ProWein, Vinexpo has to battle to keep its premium position in the world of wine fairs. But new CEO Rodolphe Lameyse is relishing the challenge of revamping the brand, he tells Patrick Schmitt MW. Even seemingly timeless labels must adapt to survive. If you are not convinced, then consider historic motoring marque Volkswagen’s current reinvention as Volts-wagen in response to Tesla taking the electric car mainstream; or toy-making leviathan Lego’s move into movies to enhance its appeal to a new generation of children. These brands may appear...

Bonhams wine and whisky sales reach £16 million in 2019

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Auction house Bonhams made £16 million (US$21.3 million) on fine wine and whisky sales last year. Among this year’s wine auction highlights were a 12 bottle case of Romanée-Conti 1988, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, which sold in London in March for £241,369.37, and a private collection of wines from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti sold in its entirety for more than £225,000 in May. When it came to whisky, a bottle of Macallan-60 year old-1926, with a label designed by the British Pop Artist Sir Peter Blake, sold for £615,063 at Bonhams’ whisky...

Six new ways to become a wine, beer or spirits expert in 2020

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We’ve rounded up some of the latest courses to launch in the wine, beer and spirits worlds you might want to consider if you’re looking to broaden your horizons in 2020. Do you fancy yourself as a beer sommelier, or want to learn more about the mysterious world of Scotch whisky? Drinks education is bigger business than ever. The Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, and has now awarded over 500,000 of its qualifications since 1969. But as the craft spirits and beer markets have expanded in recent years, it is now possible to learn about...

‘The definitive Christmas present for wine lovers’ recreated

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A new book called In Vino Veritas “is the recreation of the definite Christmas present for anyone who loved wine when I was in my 20s,” according to wine writer Steven Spurrier. Published by The Académie du Vin Library, the book, which has been edited by Susan Keevil, is inspired by Cyril Ray’s The Compleat Imbiber – a guide first published in 1957, and one that prompted Spurrier to make the remark. Spurrier, who founded the Académie du Vin Library, described this latest book from the business as “my baby”, adding that In Vino Veritas would be “launching onto the worldwide market something...

The Dark Horse: One Mega-Distributor Thinks MC is Poised for a Comeback

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Dear Client: Not many folks bullish on MillerCoors at the moment. But if you needed any more evidence of the blurring of the lines in bev alc, our Wine & Spirits Daily editor recently sat down with one of the nation’s largest beer wholesalers, Columbia Distributing, to get an update on their growing wine and … Continue reading “The Dark Horse: One Mega-Distributor Thinks MC is Poised for a Comeback” You are unauthorized to view this page. Read the full article

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