Week in pictures: Hong Kong

The first-ever Women of Wine Festival and a rare Swiss wine tasting at Ozone Bar, the highest bar in the world, were some of the highlights of last week in the Hong Kong wine industry.

Debra Meiburg MW and a slew of leading women figures from all aspects of the city’s wine industry popped balloons to kick off the first Women of Wine Festival in Hong Kong on 10 March.

Olivier Collin, winemaker at grower Champagne house Ulysse Collin, tasting his wines before guests arrive for L’Imperatrice’s annual portfolio tasting at Liang Yi  Museum in Sheung Wan.

Alexandre Chartogne, the young and dynamic Champagne maker who has been looking after his family estate Chartogne-Taillet in Merty near Montagne de Reims since 2006, took a break from tasting and posed for a photo for dbHK in Hong Kong at the L’Imperatrice tasting.

There was a rare opportunity to taste Swiss wines from the French-speaking Vaud region near Lake Geneva last week as well. Organised by Hong Kong importer, The Swiss Wine Shop, and its local wine trade organisation, Office des Vins Vaudois (OVV), the tasting took place at the swanky Ozone bar on the 118th floor of Ritz-Carlton hotel in Hong Kong.

Bartenders at Stockton bar in Central are concocting 13 new cocktails for the ‘Minds Undone’ series, inspired by literary heavyweights including Edgar Allen Poe, Fitzgerald and Truman Capote.

A farewell party was thrown on Friday last week in honour of Lucy Jenkins (third from right), who is taking her next adventure with Cathay Pacific after covering the drinks industry in Hong Kong for dbHK for two years.

Ian McDonald, head copper of Scotland’s whisky distillery, The Balvenie, was in Hong Kong for the Sound of Whisky event and demonstrated cask making accompanied with live drumming.