On my way to Asia

I am leaving later today for Singapore where I will attend the 80th birthday fund rasing celebration event of NK Hong with many of their friends (See list below).

ENGLAND
1. Serena Sutcliffe Sotheby’s
2. David Peppercorn

AUSTRIA
1. Salomon Undhof, Krems. Berthold Salomon

BORDEAUX
1. Château Angelus Hubert & Corinne de Bouard
2. Château Cos D’Estournel Jean-Guillaume Prats
3. Château D’Issan Emmanuel Cruse
4. Château Figeac Eric d’Aramon
5. Château Figeac Thierry & Marie-France Manoncourt
6. Château Lagrange Marcel & Michele Ducasse
7. Château La Lagune Marina Mendez
8. Château Lynch Bages Jean-Charles Cazes
9. Château Ormes de Pez Jean-Charles Cazes
10. Château Palmer Bernard de Laage de Meux
Château Palmer Thomas Duroux
11. Château Pichon Comtesse de Lalande May Eliane de Lencquesaing
12. Château Bernadotte May-Eliane de Lencquesaing
Gildas d’Ollone
13. Château Le Pin Jacques Thienpont & Fiona
14. Vieux Château Certan Jacques & Fiona Thienpont
15. Château Valandraud Jean-Luc & Murielle Thunevin
16. Château Leoville Barton Anthony & Eva Barton
17. Château Lascombes Dominique Befve

Contributing but unable to attend:
1. Château Smith Haut-Lafitte Daniel & Florence Cathiard
2. Château Haut Bailly Veronique Sanders
3. Château Doisy-Vedrines Pierre-Antoine Casteja
4. Château Rauzan Segla John Kolasa

BURGUNDY
1. Domaine Dujac Jacques & Rosalind Seysses
2. Domaine Bonneau du Martray Jean-Charles le Bault de la Moriniere
3. Maison Joseph Faiveley Erwan Faiveley
4. Maison Joseph Drouhin Gerard Uhlen
5. Domaine Michel Gros Michel Gros
Georgia Tsouti
6. Domaine Comte de Vogue Jean-Luc Pepin
7. Maison Louis Jadot Jacques Lardiere
8. Domaine Ponsot Laurent Ponsot

Contributing but unable to attend:
1. Domaine Leflaive Anne-Claude Leflaive
2. Domaine J F Mugnier Frederic Mugnier
3. Domaine des Comtes Lafon Dominique Lafon

ALSACE
1. Maison Hugel Etienne Hugel

Contributing but unable to attend:
1. F.E. Trimbach Hubert Trimbach

CHAMPAGNE
1. Laurent Perrier Ludovic Lageard
2. Jacquesson Michael MacKenzie
3. Champagne Deutz Fabrice Rosset
4. Delamotte Champagne Didier Depond

Contributing but unable to attend:
1. Champagne Pol Roger Christian Pol Roger

RHONE
1. Paul Jaboulet Nicolas Jaboulet
2. Delas et Freres Fabrice Rosset

PORTUGAL
1. Chryseia Bruno and France Prats

ITALY
1. Tenuta Fontodi Giovanni Manetti
2. Castello di Brolio Francesco Ricasoli
3. Tenuta Fonterutoli Francesco Mazzei
4. Tenuta Trinoro Andrea Franchetti
5. Tenuta Isole e Olena Paolo di Marchi
6. Castello di Ama Marco Pallenti & Lorenza Sebasti
7. Tenuta Argiano Stephane Schaeffer
8. Pio Cesare Pio Boffa
9. Campo di Sasso Marchese Lodovico Antinori
10. Marchese Antinori Alessia Antinori
11. Stanza Peter & Susan Vinding-Diers
12. Due Normanni Marchese Giuseppe Paterno Castello
di San Giuliano
13. Azienda Agricola Luciano Sandrone Barbara Sandrone
14. Sassicaia Marchese Nicolo Incisa della
Rochetta Sebastiano Rosa
15. Tenuta Ornellaia Axel Heinz

Contributing but unable to attend:
1. Marchesi de Frescobaldi

GERMANY
1. Weingut Egon Muller-Scharzhof Egon Muller Jr.
2. Weingut J J Prum Katharina Prum
Amei Prum
3. Weingut Fritz Haag Wilhelm & Ilse Haag
4. Weingut Schlossgut Diel Armin & Monika Diel
5. Weingut Valckenburg Wilhelm Steifensand
6. Weingut Donnhoff Gaby & Helmut Donnhoff

SPAIN
1. Vega Sicilia Pablo Alvarez
2. Pingus Peter Sisseck
3. Alvaro Palacios Alvaro and Cristina Palacios
4. Clos Figueres Christopher & Charlotte Cannan
5. Clos Figueres Rod Hull
6. Torres S.A. Juan Maria Torres

AUSTRALIA
1. Leeuwin Estate, Margaret River Denis Horgan

Contributing but unable to attend:
1. Torbreck David Powell

ARGENTINA
1. Bodega Noemia Patagonia Hans Vinding-Diers

This list shows you that I will also have the pleasure to drink some great wines.

Monday, we will leave Singapore for Japan, Tokyo, Osaka and other places and many events, tastings, interviews… back in Bordeaux on February 16.
Caroline et Léo Shinohara are already there and organized a busy schedule as I don’t like to do such long and expensive trips only to give me «good conscience». They should actually be done as promotional tours. Which will be the case.