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A brass hotel corridor trolley holding a wine bottle in an ice bucket, a folded napkin and a blank key card — Hotels need the room not a name
Buying Guide

Getting wine delivered to your Hong Kong hotel room

You land in Hong Kong on Thursday, you are hosting a small dinner in your...
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A wine bottle beside a blank receipt turned face down, a wine glass, a folded white napkin and a small tray of coins — Corkage pays for service not wine
Entertaining

Corkage in Hong Kong: what the fee is actually charging for

Corkage at a Chinese restaurant in Wan Chai can mean they open your bottle for...
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Rows of wine glasses and unopened bottles fanned across a long red banquet cloth, round table settings receding behind — Twenty tables need a plan
Buying Guide

Buying wine for a Hong Kong banquet of twenty tables

The banquet is booked, there are twenty tables of twelve, and someone has told you...
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One dust covered Champagne bottle beside a newer clean bottle of the same shape, two blank price tags turned face down — Vintage costs two to three times non-vintage
Buying Guide

Why vintage Champagne costs two to three times the non-vintage

A vintage Champagne from a good house often costs two to three times its non-vintage...
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Three champagne glasses holding pale gold, deep gold and salmon pink wine, white and dark grapes scattered on dark slate — Skin contact sets the style
Buying Guide

Blanc de Blancs, Blanc de Noirs and rose: what changes in the glass

Blanc de Blancs, Blanc de Noirs, Rosé. Three phrases that sit on Champagne labels doing...
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A champagne flute tilted to catch a slow pour, bubbles rising through pale gold liquid, a cork and wire cage on a linen napkin — Angle the glass, save the mousse
Champagne

Opening and pouring Champagne without wrecking the mousse

Two people can open the same bottle ten minutes apart and get noticeably different wine...
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A single ornate Champagne bottle in a velvet lined presentation box beside a plain unmarked bottle without packaging — Story costs more than the wine
Buying Guide

Where the money goes in a prestige cuvee Champagne

Six or eight times the price separates a house's standard Brut from that same house's...
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Thirty champagne flutes arranged in tight rows across a long dark table, two unopened bottles and an ice bucket at one end — Buy one bottle per two guests
Buying Guide

How much Champagne to buy for a party of thirty

Ask five people how much Champagne thirty guests will drink and five confident numbers come...
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Several Champagne corks from different years laid beside a blending glass of pale straw wine and a wine thief on dark wood — NV Champagne is the house style
Buying Guide

Non-vintage Champagne is the wine a house is built on

The non-vintage bottle is the cheaper one, so it gets read as the lesser one...
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An unopened Champagne bottle standing in a small flat kitchen cupboard between spice jars, a humidity gauge on the shelf — Store it cool, or drink it soon
Champagne

How long Champagne keeps in a Hong Kong cupboard

Someone gave you a bottle of Champagne two Christmases ago. It has been standing in...
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A single unlabelled Champagne bottle beside blending beakers holding different straw coloured wines and a folded vineyard map — A grower label is not a discount
Buying Guide

Grower Champagne is not automatically the cheaper bottle

Grower Champagne is supposed to be where the value hides — small farmer, own grapes,...
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Two champagne coupes on a dark slate board, a dosage vial and a small mound of raw sugar cubes beside a used cork and wire cage — Extra Dry is sweeter than Brut
Buying Guide

Why Extra Dry Champagne is sweeter than Brut

Extra Dry is sweeter than Brut. Sec is sweeter than both. The words on a...
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