Vinexpo Daily 2018 - Review Edition

NEWS
Austrian Gold Award
Medal Winner at Vinexpo
Hong Kong 2018
Ludwig Holzer, Sales Director of Winzer
Krems EG, Austria was all smiles at
Vinexpo Hong Kong, with his company’s
product, Kremser Wachtberg Grüner
Veltliner DAC Reserve 2016, Kremstal,
Niederösterreich, Austria, having just
won the 2018 Decanter World Wine
Awards Gold Medal.
“Grüner Veltliner is the pride of Austria.
It’s our indigenous unique grape, and
it’s 50% of our production”, says Holzer,
adding, “Reaction here at Vinexpo
Hong Kong has been really good.
Much better than I expected to be
honest, because we always thought that
dry, fruity white wines would be quite
difficult to place in this market, but we
have had a lot of interest, especially
from restaurants. Sommeliers have been
very interested, as there are a number of
Austrians coming to this area”
Ludwig Holzer
Sales Director, Winzer Krems EG
CHAMPAGNE ON ICE…
YES, WE CAN!
In the hot climes of South East
Asia, many people over the years
had become used to putting ice
in Champagne to keep it chilled.
While some saw this as sacrilege,
Champagne Pommery decided, ‘If
you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” and
designed a Champagne specially
for drinking on the rocks. Originally
launched in Asia at Vinexpo Hong
Kong 2016, distribution is growing
constantly, and the cool coloured
product display is particularly eyecatching.
A company spokesperson
told us, “This Champagne is ideal
for climates like this, for consumption
outdoors on a terrace, for relaxed,
glamourous and fun moments, but it
is, above all, a Champagne elaborated specifically for this.
It corresponds to a trend in consumption, and thus could be
seen as quite avant-garde”. Pommery already innovated
with its nomadic “Pop” Champagne, and this new edition
appears to be hitting another sweet spot
FIVE TOP SAUTERNES
IN ONE BOTTLE
The top five grands crus classés of Sauternes in
1855, announced at Vinexpo Hong Kong that
they had joined forces for the creation of an
oenological dream: revealing in one bottle one
of the great terroirs of Sauternes, the terroir of
Bommes.
Châteaux Sigalas Rabaud, Rayne Vigneau,
Lafaurie Peyraguey, la Tour Blanche, and Rabaud
Promis announced the world premiere.
Endowed with 5 different personalities, their
diversity and singularity compose a unique
wine: the 5+. This wine is produced in extremely
limited quantities from the 2016 vintage. It will be
available in the autumn of 2018 and distributed
by the “place de Bordeaux”.
The 5+ is the continuity of a strong dynamic
between these 5 Châteaux. Their agreement has
led to a joint “market launch in primeurs” since
the 2016 vintage and the successful launch of the
“5 Stars Sauternes” case in February 2018
First Appearance for Great
Wall at Vinexpo Hong Kong
China’s Great Wall wine exhibited
for the first time at Vinexpo Hong
Kong this year, on an area of 113
square metres.
With five strategic sub-brands and
16 products in total, forming the
Great Wall wine range, their team
underlined the oriental charm
of “China’s Great Wall and red
national wine”. Visitors were
able to taste wines from the Great
Wall wine Shacheng Huaizhuo
Basin Production Region, Changli
Jieshishan Production Region,
Penglai Coastal Wine Region,
Ningxia Helanshan Eastern Foothills
Production Region and Xinjiang
Tianshan Production Region –
constituting the five strategic
products of the group.
Great Wall wine boasts a high-level
of product quality and rich oriental
culture connotation. The company’s
aim at Vinexpo was to boost
domestic wine internationalisation,
letting visitors and exhibitors from
different countries and regions
know more about the characteristics
of Chinese wine, and to taste some
excellent vintages
8 VINEXPO DAILY / REVIEW / TUESDAY 12 TH JUNE 2018