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A wine bottle sweating beside a thermometer on a small flat kitchen counter, an open refrigerator door behind — Hong Kong flats run warmer than cellars
Hong Kong

Serving wine at the right temperature in a Hong Kong flat

Twenty-six degrees is an ordinary indoor temperature in Hong Kong for most of the year,...
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A wine bottle wrapped in bubble padding inside an open suitcase beside a blank boarding pass and a small luggage scale — Your limit is where you land
Buying Guide

Taking wine out of Hong Kong: the limit is at the other end

Hong Kong is not the problem. Since duty on wine was removed here, the territory...
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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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