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A Tour of Italy at Rico Padre Restaurant   Last Friday I was on deck to help my good friends at Thisrty Scholar with their Italain wine tasting at the new Rico Padre restaurant in Taichung. Some pleasantly warm mid-winter…

This year’s event in Shanghai was a very interesting insight into the dynamic wine market in China. Italian and Australian wines continue to go from strength to strength in the market, while wines from my own country, New Zealand were…

It was great to witness the ever-growing interest in wine in Taiwan at the recent Taipei Wine & Spirit Festival, held at the extremely convenient (for anyone heading to Taipei vis the High Speed Rail) Nangang Exhibition Center. What particularly…

After a slightly late start mostly due to rushing back from Prowine in Shanghai, then missing my connecting train in Kaohsiung, we had a great evening of wine tasting and food. Special thanks to Vera from VLingual Studio for organising…

Thanks to June and the team at Vedan for inviting me to train the staff for a session on wine styles, labels and marketing. We had a great time and cleared up a few misconceptions as well as hopefully inspiring…

Earlier this year I was lucky enough to attend a tasting of fantastic wines from Collefrisio in the Montepulciano D’Abruzzo region courtesy of the Chen family at their lovely home in Yuanlin, Taiwan. The Tasting was an opportunity to do…

We had a great night of wine education, eating and a fun wine options game on Wednesday night. A big thanks to Una, Andy and the whole team at CMYK Gallery in Taichung, Taiwan for the great food and relaxed…