Yumi Tanabe, founder of SAKURA Japan Women’s Wine Awards. With over 40 years in the industry, Tanabe is one of the most influential figures in wine in Japan and Japanese wine. She is a writer, educator, and importer. In 1992, Tanabe founded Yumi Tanabe’s Wine School where many sommeliers have studied. More than 10,000 students have […]
There is no universal agreement on whether red wine should or should not be decanted. Most people would not decant, for example, a Cotes-du-Rhone or an inexpensive Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon. Myself would – if only for five to 10 minutes – for the fruit to open, and the tannins to loosen, up. Wines that have […]
Imperial Treasure Fine Chinese Cuisine Paris, located inside the Hotel La Clef Champs-Élysées, has been awarded its first Michelin star in the newly released MICHELIN Guide France 2026. It is now the only Chinese restaurant in Paris holding a Michelin star. This remarkable achievement marks a significant milestone for the restaurant and further cements the Imperial […]
Sweet & Sour Pork Sweet & Sour Mandarin Fish A dry wine will not work. The sweet and sour will obliterate it. A dry wine does not measure up not only because the sauce is sweet and sour but also because there’s vinegar in the sauce. As we all know, vinegar overwhelms and neutralises wine. […]
The World of Fine Wine, the UK’s multi-award winning magazine, established its World’s Best Wine Lists Awards in 2014. Categories include Best Champagne & Sparkling Wine List, Best Dessert & Fortified Wine List, Best Organic Wine List, Best Wine-by-the-Glass List (with Coravin®), Best Wine-by-the-Glass List (without Coravin®), Best Wine Bar, Best Hotel Wine List, Most Original Wine List, […]
Sithamparappillai Jegatheepan is baguette champion of Grand Prix de la Baguette de Tradition Française de la Ville de Paris 2026. It was his first attempt at the contest where he beat out 142 other competitors. The daughter of the Sri Lankan immigrant had ‘warned’ her father “If you don’t win, don’t come home!” The heading to […]
Petit Manseng The most exciting dry white wine of China – for the moment anyway – is not Chardonnay but Petit Manseng. Previously all made sweet, some producers have pivoted to a dry version. One of the first, and best, is Longting Reserve Sea Breeze Dry Petit Manseng. First produced in 2020 (Longting has been producing a sweet version […]
“It was founded by my mother in 1959. At that time, it was a wooden shed. We rebuilt it and it was inaugurated on 10 October 2018,” Alex Lee recalled. Helen Lee had originally come from Guiyang City in Guizhou Province. Her family left China for Taipei and there, she met William LEE Hai Tien, […]
LU Shao Xu was one of the wealthiest men in China. In 1897, the prominent salt merchant built a new home covering nearly 10,000 square metres with more than 130 rooms. Situated along an important embarking point of the Grand Canal, it occupied one of the most prized and priced real estate locations of old […]
CHEN Kentaro’s culinary pedigree is of the loftiest order. He is grandson of CHEN Kenmin (1912 – 1990). The late Chen was born in Sichuan and worked in restaurants in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. In 1952, he arrived in Japan and in 1958 founded the first Shisen Hanten. Often credited with introducing Sichuan cuisine […]
