Bolla Winery celebrates its 125th anniversary this year. We were invited for dinner at their winery during the VinItaly fair. This winery has grown to quite a size and wines that they produce come from 5 different regions in Italy (Fruili, Veneto, Lombardia, Romagna and Tuscany). They initially produced wines just from Veneto prior to […]

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i went to a really authentic local italian trattoria whilst in verona during the vinitaly 08 trip. and typical of this region was horse meat.

Antica Trattoria Tipica Enoteca Al Bersagliere from the outside. It’s located in a very off the beaten track road and it’s not some place you would just walk past. Check out […]

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I was at the Asian Touring Car Series Round 5 race today rooting for Singaporean driver Melvin Choo driving his BMW 320si for Thunder Asia Racing Team. He is also a partner in Vintage Assets, a wine asset investment company that invests your money in wine assets.

At the Thunder Asia Racing Team pit lane garage. […]

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I know it’s not midsummer in Malaysia but it’s nice to celebrate something! So, what better way than to celebrate it by tasting 10 wines from 4 European regions for only RM20/person. And it comes with some European bites to keep your stomach balanced! We will email a more confirmed wine list next week as […]

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i love statistics, and from analysing data from the past 3 years, i have concluded that the malaysian wine drinking community is drinking better quality wines as the average price of a bottle of wine imported in 2005 was RM18.54, 2006 RM20.58 and 2007 RM22.63. All prices are duty not paid prices of course and […]

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according to the department of statistics, the following figures show our 2007 wine importation and it shows the top 14 countries where the wines are imported from.
A total of approx. 10 million bottles of wine are imported yearly into Malaysia (based on 2007’s numbers). We have a population of 25 million.
A quick calculation with a […]

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I love sweet wines and a great sweet wine can really enhance and finish off one’s dinner with a great impression on your palate. However, it’s a very ignored segment of the market so we decided to try 4 great sweet wines and pair it with food which we thought would go well with it. […]

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4 june 2008, wednesday @ tasting room jalan bangkung:
I would like to extend my gratitute and thanks to his excellency the ambassador of chile mr patricio torres for agreeing to launch the amayna wines last week. mr torres opened the first bottle of the amayna barrel fermented sauvignon blanc 2006 in malaysia to signify the official […]

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hot from the press is another article talking about our new wine bistro Tasting Room. Ch’ng Poh Tiong, a very prominent and respected wine writer based in Singapore came by recently to try our food & wine and this is what he had to say:

Click here for the full article in PDF format

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One of my team mates Lindsay had been sent a can of Haggis from her family in Scotland, and because i had just come back from Florence then, I brought my team back some Italian goodies to try. We had haggis, parma ham, chianti wine jelly, 25 year old modena balsamic vinegar, san leo extra virgin olive […]

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