Sommeliers Choice Awards 2023 Winners

Leading convenience store operator 7-Eleven has awarded Wolf Blass with the Top Brand Campaign Award in Hong Kong, in recognition of the strong sales and brand presence achieved by the iconic Australian wine brand in the convenience market in the past year.

Berry Bros & Rudd is offering its customers the chance to climb onto its famous scales and win their weight in wine.

Champagne house Salon has released its 2004 wine, only the 39th vintage ever made by the producer.

Turkish wine producer Kavaklidere Wines has appointed Sopexa UK for for its communications campaign.

It was Lafite rather than Pétrus or Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, that topped Sotheby’s latest London sale.

Hong Kong wine merchant Madison Wine has entered into talks with auction house Acker Merrall & Condit to buy 45% of the business.

The seventh instalment of the Bourgogne Wines Club, hosted by the BIVB in Hong Kong earlier this week, saw a group of sommeliers blind taste 8 Chablis Premier Cru wines and assign Left or Right Bank to each.

The fifth edition of ‘Bien Boire en Beaujolais’ (BBB) saw 1,500 visitors descend on the region for the annual tasting.

Vins de Provence has hosted an art-jamming workshop and rosé tasting in Hong Kong, a market which saw sales of rosé grow 32% in 2015.

Château Haut-Brion is no longer quite the pre-eminent premier grand cru classé claret at auction, but where it does trump the likes of Mouton and Lafite is in its price stability.