Rita Lau, the Hong Kong Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, has just announced that the government of the former British colony intended to organise an invitation to tender at the end of 2009, for transformation work to Haw Par Mansion, a listed building erected in 1935, to turn it into a venue dedicated to wine.

If this first initiative is successful, other buildings may be given over to the wine business to extend implementation of the strategy to make Hong Kong a regional wine trade hub. (Source: Revue Vinicole Internationale)