Hong Kong Wine Challenge: Bordeaux Etc

To shake things up a little, this time on the Asia Tatler/Hong Kong Wine Challenge, instead of a restaurant, James visits Bordeaux Etc in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong’s first wine shop dedicated to Bordeaux wines, where there is said to be a bottle of 1869 Lafite available at about HK$200,000. Upon the visit, James asks owner Paolo Pong to select two labels from the 900 wines offered up for the Wine Challenge.

James expected this to be a walk in the park for Pong, as the concept behind Bordeaux Etc is for guests to “pick one [bottle] and drink it that evening” explains Pong. In other words, that maturity and aging have already been considered.  The wines selected for the Wine Challenge must be: – 90 points or above – priced under HK$1,000 per bottle – available for purchase at the named boutique

James then gives his own scores for the wines selected and chooses a winner.

For this Wine Challenge, James is presented with two bottles of Bordeaux: Pontet Canet 2007 (HK$769, read note) and Certan Marzelle 2005 (HK$715, read note).

Watch the video above to see which wine wins the Wine Challenge at Bordeaux Etc and the scores given to each wine.

-KS