As we are at the dawn of a new year, we have never felt the past as relevant – as it’ll be tomorrow. This cycle is inevitable. One five-star hotel is standard, another one with free spa is better, the third one comes with awesome Michelin star meals and a bottle of Lafite for each day during your stay, the fourth one offers you all of the above and a fantastic helicopter pick-up straight from the airport, but when the next fifty hotels offer the same services, then they are already “old”. Why do ancient wells and untamed paths sound more sexy than a clean, ... Read More »

  Join us in Hong Kong for a very special event to celebrate the new year 2015!   Taste 10 years old selected French wines: Burgundy 1er cru Loire Valley Chinon Northern Rhone Cornas – Savigny-les-Beaune Dry white – Dry red – Sweet white wines and more   Tasting guided by Julien Yung MAMEAUX, French-Asian professional wine & spirits tutor and founder of The Experience Company Read More »

As France’s most famous wine region faces challenging times, its chateaux are behaving like true leaders, reports Julien Yung Mameaux. Bordeaux wine prices are adjusting – for the better. Culminating on decades of nearly immaculate reputation, two vintages broke records when wine critic Robert Parker Jr. gave perfect 100-points ratings to fifteen chateaux in 2009 and ten in 2010; prices jumped by 20 per cent and 12 per cent respectively. But as the world caught the Bordeaux fever, a tough era was ushered with the 2011 and 2012 vintages, performing below expectations. With stock piling up and a demanding client ... Read More »

There is no wine quite like Champagne. Adored by people as diverse as Napoleon and Marilyn Monroe, the “sauté-bouchon” (jumping cork in French) as it was once called, has been the dedicated potion of magical nights since the 1600s. The epitome of the French art-de-vivre, the wine was born still, like those of Burgundy or Bordeaux, but wasn’t destined to remain so. A series of mistakes including early bottling led to fermentation to continue inside the bottle – and the effect of sun and heat during transportation would turn the wine into a fizzy beverage by the time it reached the ... Read More »