Taking weight off feet after excellent inaugual launch tasting of our Hong Kong venture with the South China Morning Post; called 'scmpwine'.

On the roof of a restaurant called The Pawn on Johnson Street. Almost 200 turned up to meet us – well, mostly to meet Hugh (Johnson, here with us) and, after a necessary glass of Bollinger (it's unseasonably warm in HK), taste four excellent claret-ish reds. And ... taste them blind. With the chance of a magnum of Bolly if they guessed which was which. Many did. Know their wine here! HK is so exciting!

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