Magic Decanter

A Very Special Design of speeding up your wine with a flash f seconds.
A Large flask may not be the best as it has to wait for the wine to get mixed with Oxygen.

This tiny magic Decanter can work effective. Just pour in the wine on the glass with this magic decanter in between. it creates a swirl of bubbles trapped inside the wine with hissing sound. Enjoy.

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Chateau Laffite 1869, World Most Expensive Red Wine sold in Hong Kong!

Hong Kong has become World No.1 Red Wine Auction centre with red wine transaction amount reaches 900 Millions this year.

Laffite, the liquidous Gold reaches the World Highest Record of auction price.

Last Friday 29 Oct, Sotheby HK made an auction of Three bottles of 1869 Laffite. We speculated the price would be just HKD$56,000.00 each, final bit was coming from an unidentified man, he offered HKD$1,500,000.00 a bottle. Or HKD$1,820,000.00 Including 21% commission.

We believe the mysterious man is a Chinese. This is the highest record of a single bottle of Laffite.. The price sis 6 times higher than the same weight of Gold!

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1961 Paul Jaboulet Hermitage La Chapelle

This Bottle of 1961 Paul Jaboulet Hermitage La Chapelle was attained a record High auction price of HKD$50,000.00 a bottle last year at Acker & Merrall summer auction. Soon later it appeared in a Geneva Christie with a Historical high of final bidding price of 66,000 Pounds for 6 bottles. The historical record of Red Wine Auction! Someone estimated that is an offer from a Chinese. If not Chinese. Who else!? Japanese or Korea? No way!



Paul Jaboulet is the name of this French winery, Hermitage is a wine-growing appellation in northern Rhône on a hill with an old hermit's chapel. La Chapelle is a church. That St. Christophe Chapel has been there since 1235. The Church belongs to Paul Jaboult, however Chateau La Lagune has acquired the Paul Jaboulet winery business.


This winery produces 90,000 bottle of wine every year. This 1961 bottle has 100% Syrah, known to be complex and blended with sophisticated aroma. Robert Parker rated this great bottle 100 points. Anticipated for another 30-50 years. If I had money I would not care to taste it with a sip at HKD$5,000.00!


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DRC 2005

Texas Real Estate Developer Marcus Hiles carried his 6,500 bottles of fine wine for Southey’s auction. Within that collection, there were 1,030 of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti. That is the historical largest Asia Southey’s action item, there are some 2005 DRC. Estimated actions price for 12 bottles of 2005 DRC is HKD800,000 to HKD1,200,000.
After Laffite 1896, 1947, 1982, perhaps Marguax 1900 (it is still too young to drink, perhaps we have to wait for another 20 years), Mouton 1945. Petrvs 1961, 1989, Latour 1959….After all you have to try different wine like 2005 DRC?
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Cru it Yourself...Crushpad

Have you ever wanted to make your own luxury-class wine? This is now possible, thanks to the partner Crushpad. For the past 8 years, Crushpad has made premium wines on behalf of private clients throughout the world. Each customer decides on the style of wine they want to produce, selects the vineyards and grapes and decides on the final blend under the expert supervision of Crushpad's renowned wine makers.


Since the 2009 vintage, Crushpad has operated from Saint Emilion with access well-located parcels throughout Bordeaux (Margaux, Pauillac, St Emilion...). They've also hired one of the world's renowned wine making consultants, Eric Boissenot (wine consultant of Lafite, Latour, Margaux, Pichon Baron, Leoville Barton, Palmer and many others...) to oversee vineyard selection and management as well as winemaking and client blending support.


All wines are produced in Saint Emilion at Chateau Teyssier, under the winemaking supervision of Jonathan Maltus, producer of top rated wines (Le Dome, Les Asteries and Vieux Chateau Mazerat).

Crushpad is now proposing to do YOUR 2010 vintage:
How it works:
1) You select a barrel (minimum order, ie 300 bt) based on the style of Bordeaux you want to produce (fruity, strong, rounds, more or less tannins, a wine to age or to drink, etc...).

2) With the support of Crushpad's team, including Eric Boissenot, you will make the selection of grapes from specific varietals (cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc) and parcels. Most of these parcels are located within or next to prestigious chateau (Sociando Mallet, Le Tertre, Prieure Lichine, Pichon Baron, Tertre Daugay...) and were selected specifically for their quality and terroir. More details on the parcels are available in the attached document.


3) You choose a preliminary blend percentages (70% Cabernet, 30% Merlot....) to respond to your wine style.


4) You participate as much or as little as you like in the winemaking process. If you can't make it to Bordeaux, you monitor the wine process online and can contact Crushpad in Bordeaux at any time for changes or adjustments.


5) You adjust the blend to your taste while the wine is aging in barrel. You can do so at Crushpad's "Primeur" event in April 2011, where Eric Boissenot and Crushpad's winemaking team are on hand to finalize the blend directly with you. If you can not come, samples will be sent to you with suggestions for blend modification.


6) You design your own label, packaging, bottling. Crushpad has a team of four designers to respond to your specific label design requirements.


The whole process can take from 14 month to 24 months. Of course, should you want to travel to Bordeaux and visit your wine in progress, you can do so at any time. Best would be in April during the "En Primeurs" tastings, where you taste your barrel samples, meet the other owners and blend with Eric Boissenot and Crushpad's winemakers. (See enclosed South China Morning Post article with the popular HK Actress Bernice Liu and her 2009 vintage !)


You are the wine maker and you are assured to get a 100% excellent wine at the end thanks to the ideal location of each of the parcels (cf attach documents), the excellent advise from all the wine makers at Crushpad and of course Eric Boissenot.


As a reference point, Crushpad clients have produced a number of wines rated between 90 and 94 points by Robert Parker, The Wine Spectator and the Wine Enthusiast. Even further, one client was named by the Wine Spectator one of the 20 best 'newcomers', with a 92 point rating.


Act fast as the 2010 harvest is about to begin and barrels are limited. Prices start at HK$ 72,500 per barrel (equivalent 300 bt delivered in wooden case or HK$ 241 per bt) and depend on the vineyards selected.

Contact Simon Tai, Director of Connoisseur Wines [simon@connoisseur-wines.com.hk]

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Chateau Leoville Poyferre

This is another  bottle of Leoville Poyferre in the year of 2001 from my wine cellar.
I have been drinking a few bottle of this Leoville for different years.
This is a mellow, good to last for one and half hour wine for your dinner. It took at least 30 minutes to breath.
The taste is mild, a sense of heavy oak, lead and flowers. Good for Chinese Roasted Goose Leg, (left one of course) and Beef.
in my opinion, it has a score of 90.

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Chateau LeoVille Poyferre 2001

This is a bottle of RP90 red wine, I robbed it from Man Ip when I needed it for entertaining one of my good friends From Germany on 9 July. We took a grouper, Beef light fried with Chinese fresh Garlic, green ginger and Century egg... a nice favour that goes with this red wine... taste a bit sweet in the beginning, oak favour was initially strong with promptly went away after 15 minutes. mellow, perfume of blended with earth, pear and lead... wonderful after 40 minutes... great for its value with HKD$920.00! Probably I was with good friend and good mood so I rated this bottle with 91 points.

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Nokla, Rolexa and Mouton

I had received ads from some of the wine dealer that there is Lafife and Mouton selling at a price of HKD$200... roughly. Well a bottle of Mouton ot Lafife is minim a few thousand dollars!. This reminds me that there was Watch called " Rolexa" hand phone called "Nokla" Now we have Mouton and Lafitte.
But these are not the same stuff as the Chateau Lafite Rothschild, and Chateau Mouton, this is different bottles, but I will try to see if there is surprises! Sometimes It may have some outstanding performnce with limited cost of investment... Without trying, We should not label is..

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Cartoon Magazine for Wine "Les Gouttes De Dieu"

About 3 year ago, there was Cartoon Magazine Called " Les Gouttes De Dieu"
means the drops from the God... It is about a man who has been pursuing the ten Bottles of the Gods' wine...
A very ineresting and knowledgeable content about wine... It is now releaseing the issue 22 now.. I had collected only up to ten... If you are trying to be wine crtitic, we should have the whole collections of all the issues.

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Vins

This is a good value for money Bottle I bought from Vins at Tsuen Wan Tsuen Fung 1205.
A Chateau Duhart-Millon with RP rating of 94 Points. I paid only about HKD$600.00. This is the most valuable purchae I made in Q1 2011.
Vins is the shop where most of my wine are purchased. They are reliable and price is very reasonable.

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Petrvs 2006 RP93+

Well, this is a Petrvs, many wine experts said that at least once in your life have to taste this great bottle of Petrvs!
An affordable price at the right timing.... Please take one box and keep it for the next 2 decades consumption...Invite me for the wine tasting...I will sure be there and cancel the date from the women...On the other hand, Petrvs price will appreciate year after year! Probably better  than your white elephant stock in this Oriental Pearl.

Life is short and wine is longer than mine... Hmmm...can sleep in the bottle for 30 years! What kind of Pomerol magic Petrvs is playing, put a lot of Solium Phosphate in it... man!!

HK Drinking Snob

Tsing Tao Beer Factory

The Tsing Tao beer was orginally made by the German in the Port of Tsing Tao (Qing Dao) when German occupied QingDao in 1899.

Now when we go to Qing Dao, we can go to the first orginal Beer brewery established in 1903 for the tasting of the fresh Tsing Tao beer made with mineral water from Lu Shan on that so call Beer Street!

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The 2004 Numanthia

Wine Advocate # 169 Feb 2007 98



Any aspiring collectors should add a case of this to their stash. The 2004 Numanthia comes from a different terroir with a different clone of Tinta de Toro. The vines for this cuvee range from 70-100 years of age with tiny yields of 1 ton of fruit per acre. The wine undergoes malolactic fermentation in barrel followed by 19 months in new French oak before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. The wine is a glass-coating opaque purple with a killer nose of mineral, pencil lead, wild blueberry, and blackberry liqueur that roars from the glass. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, dense, and already beginning to show complexity within its layers of spicy black fruits. There is immense power, well-concealed ripe tannin, and the well-delineated finish lasts for over one minute. This is a sensational effort which in a perfect world should be cellared for a decade and enjoyed over the following 25+ years. However, the elderly among us should not feel guilty about opening a bottle now.

(HK retail List Price: $990)


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Montrose, probably the best buy Fench Wine in HK!

What do ou think an Parker RP100 point wine costs how much!? years ago I had consumped Lafite 1986, Latour 1996, Lacas 1982, Mouton 2000, these are 99+-100 point wine... that was expensive from HKD$5,000 to HKD$10,000 in 2007.

Well, now  this is Montrose 2003. selling at HKD$2,100.00 Only, that had to have certain patience as we have waited for more than 2 months for the wine to come Hong Kong.

I think this is a good investment of buying such great bottle at this price , if you can find it...

This is some of the recent reviews:
Reviews of 2003 Montrose Bordeaux Blend
Mike Supple, JJ Buckley
February 2007

An intensely dark, opulent black core with a bold garnet rim. Rich, heavy and spicy on the nose. Dark plum and cassis aromas push through, followed by cooler undertones of blueberry, blackberry and sweet red raspberry. Surrounding the intense fruit are pervasive aromas of mushroomy earth, wet stone, sweet tobacco and a hint of green bell pepper, followed by lingering spicy aromas of black pepper, cedar, vanilla and cinnamon. In the mouth this wine is huge. The tannic acid is strong from the front of the mouth all the way through the finish. Well integrated and balanced for such a young wine, the power of the tannic structure just keeps building on the mid-palate. Cassis, blackberry and black plum push through the thick tannins, followed by persistent vanilla and charred oak. This is an intense wine that deserves to be laid down for several years. Intense, yet balanced and distinguished with a promise of amazing future potential.

100 points, Robert Parker, Wine Advocate

May 2007

From Robert Parker's Hedonist's Gazette, May 2007. Please note, although scored 100 points by Robert Parker himself, this is NOT an official score. It was given at an informal tasting of 13 different 2003 Bordeaux wines he participated in at the Duquesne Club in Pittsburgh, PA. "The unbelievable 2003 Montrose (rated 100) and Cos d’Estournel (rated 99) are two of the greatest St.-Estèphes I have ever tasted. Montrose is the more backward, and the Cos is more precocious, but both wines will benefit from 8-10 years of cellaring, and should last for 30-40 years."

What do you think? after 8 year, let's make a review on this wine after tasting!

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