Those of you who have been receiving our periodic newsletters long enough might remember the one dated May 6, 2020 (https://www.vinopolis.com.hk/single-post/what-is-a-car). It is now another 6+ years and what’s new? Yes…it was about the Porsche 964RS under my ownership since new. Back then 40 years ago, yours truly was quite a sports car enthusiast and at different stages owned the first generation Golf GTi, the Alfa Romeo GTV6, the Lancia Gamma, the Mercedes 280CE, the Ferra

Hope you have enjoyed our newsletter released this past Monday. Anybody interested in the heritage of cheongsam might want to know that there is an exhibition coming up:

What is “heritage”? The Cambridge Dictionary defines heritage as “features belonging to the culture of a particular society, such as traditions, languages, or buildings, that were created in the past and still have historical importance”. There is more recently the specific term “intangible cultural heritage” (ICH) which has a broadened meaning, especially with the active involvement of UNESCO. ICH would include traditions or living expressions inherited from ancestors an

A very good friend who is a world renown academia at Stanford University recently met up with some Mainland Chinese entrepreneurs in the hi-tech industry. With Word Cup 2026 finished not that long ago, the conversation naturally touched upon the “beautiful game” and some of the controversial referee decisions (and non-decisions) during the course of the tournament. Allow me to divert a little here…a popular hypothesis is that the referees/VARs had been compromised by gambling

As our appreciation of your support, we will hand out a souvenir for orders placed with immediate effect. The following are the conditions: Purchase must be or no less than HK$3,000 or no less than 6 bottles (in such case can be under HK$3,000) We are making available 12 such items and the offer will stop when all 12 are given out. It will be our absolute discretion in terms of what souvenir to accompany which order. The souvenir items include pottery, ceramic zodiac figurine

Yours truly is quite a movie buff and watched some 100 movies a year during the university days, many being non-mainstream ones not shown in cinemas but by film clubs in studios with only 20-30 viewers present. Even though the degree of passion is different now, watching movies is still a favourite past time. And it has to be in cinemas. Many will opt to do it via cell phones or laptops at home, in the office or even en route to work in a bus or train. That’s convenient. You

Football (sorry…not “soccer” as we die-hards think there to be only one type of “football”) is without a doubt the most popular spectator sport across the World. For us in Hong Kong, after enjoying, and for supporters of certain teams, enduring, a long season, with the drama of the UEFA Champion League Final still sinking in, will it be too much of a good thing as World Cup 2026 is to kick-off in less than two weeks? Football has become such a big business too. There are more

Husband and wife Herbert and Dorothy Vogel were not wealthy but both passionate about art. He didn’t finish high school and worked as a postal clerk. She came from a middle-class family, got a Master degree in library science and was a librarian in the Brooklyn Public Library. They were young aspiring artists and learned to paint in the early 1960’s after they got married. That led to art appreciation and collecting. Dorothy’s earning would support their very modest costs of

There were quite a few things happening last month. Some of you might know that Donum has established a presence in Galaxy Macau with wines featured in the wine lists of various restaurants of the group since last year. On March/13, a Donum wine dinner was held at their Pak Loh Chiu Chow Restaurant and well attended by food/wine aficionados as well as representatives from the media. On March/14, Vinopolis and the HK Country Club jointly organized a Donum Master Class at the C

First and foremost, we want to wish everyone the very best for the Year of the Horse!!! As a bilingual person with Chinese as the native language and getting a big part of education in English, it is not difficult to note that the two languages have so many fundamental differences in terms of word construction, phonetics, syntax and grammar. One other observation is the much more enriched vocabulary in English. The Oxford English Dictionary lists about 600,000 words while the