several months ago, dorotha introduced me to facebook. the moment i registered i was hooked (see my profile here) and i created a group called hong kong wine lovers. ever since, i have worked hard to build the membership so that members can share wine tips and inside information on the group's wall
a few weeks ago, a member, dominique chiarla, suggested we do more with the group. so today, i am launching an experiment: i am inviting group members to post their tasting notes on the group's wall. i want to test winespeak. my hope is that non-professional get to write their impressions about their wine experience in real language and not winespeak. i want to listen to the voice of the people so that i can learn how non-wine-writers relate to wine.
i hope this will help me prove a point that wine professionals in general are not necessarily in touch with the reality of wine on a day-to-day basis... but then again, i might be wrong...
Published by jc on July 5, 2008
not long ago here on those pages, i wrote about the enomatic wine dispenser and how i thought it was about to bring a revolution to the wine bars of the world. well my friends, the revolution is fast approaching hong kong!last week, wineroom opened at the sheraton hotel with
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Published by jc on June 24, 2008
on the 3rd night of our stay on lizard island, ever the "bougoneux" (french canadian for grumpy), i complained to maria that her luck was running out... indeed, after 3 days of cold wet weather on the island, i was starting to seriously doubt my suggestion of coming to this paradise
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Published by jc on June 24, 2008
increasingly watchful of the hong kong wine scene, yours truly was invited to comment on wine prices since the abolition of import duties last april. you can read about it in an article written by sara yin and published in the scmp on 18 june titled glass half empty.wine prices
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Published by jc on June 23, 2008
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Published by jc on June 10, 2008
was the black rain signal hoisted in hong kong this morning an auspicious sign for the very first wyndham st wine walk launched today by hong kong time out? even though the signal was lifted soon after 11 and that it left very little time for participating restaurants to prepare,
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Published by jc on June 7, 2008
of course, friends will tell me that last night's wine dinner was historical, at least as far as my history is concerned. a once in a lifetime opportunity. and to think that i almost did not go because i was completely knackered from a 3-day marathon of tastings after tastings at
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Published by jc on May 31, 2008
i love the french language, especially the one spoken by people involved with food. when french restaurant people come at your table to ask for your order, they most invariably ask you: qu'est-ce qu'il vous ferait plaisir? which literally means: what would give you pleasure? not: what would you like? non!
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Published by jc on May 24, 2008
a few months ago, by a strange coincidence, many of my hong kong friends had separately planned to visit shanghai on the same week-end we were going. and so, on finding this out, we arranged to meet for the saturday dinner at shintori, a modern japanese restaurant.it was during the period when
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Published by jc on May 17, 2008
ok, i admit, i am a creature of habit and it's not that easy to get me into doing something out of my pattern. once in a while, i do and results are most enjoyable.zest is just down from our office building so we go there a lot for lunch.
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Published by jc on May 16, 2008
ever since maria offered me the christmas present of a WSET intermediate certificate in wine taught by the good people of vincrest in hong kong, people have been asking me: so what are you now? a sommelier? whatever i am now that i have gained a little wine knowledge, my
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Published by jc on May 10, 2008
this year, i was blessed with a fantastic 40th birthday party. in hong kong, i had my dearest friends with me for a fantastic dinner at zest and was offered a membership at the crown cellars and franco was super generous in that he offered me a wonderful bottle of
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Published by jc on May 8, 2008
talking about passionate people... on our last trip to italy, we visited corte sant'alda in the valpolicella wine region just 1/2 hour north of verona. what a passionate woman that is marinella camerani who is firmly in charge of this family estate.although established in the early 80s, they have been
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Published by jc on May 3, 2008
i love to meet passionate people. especially those who are in love with what they do for a living and are able to transcend this love, this passion and make something concrete out of it.monday, joan and i met with wonderful pierre richard from l'atelier du vin, a french company
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Published by jc on May 2, 2008
