TFT HK Monday Update

Happy Monday!

Our sustainable wine-tasting event with Spike's Cellar is THIS SATURDAY. Please RSVP to spike@spikescellar.com, or buy your tickets on the Spike's Cellar site! We'll be tasting ten "green" wines for only $100, to determine which ones will be featured in Spike's online store. All of the proceeds from tickets for this event are being donated to TFT HK. Thank you to our generous friends at Spike's Cellar!

TFT HK Monday Update

It's Monday again, and time for a TFT HK update!

1. The TFT HK team attended an engaging and informative seminar on food waste in Hong Kong last week at the American Chamber of Commerce. The speakers included the Executive Director of Feeding Hong Kong, Gabrielle Kirstein; green restaurant owner (Life Cafe and Mana! Fast Slow Food) and sustainable lifestyle advocate Bobsy Gaia; and Hamilton Advisors associate, Anne Gillman. For more information, check out our Local Buzz post this Thursday. 

2. Our Diamond Jubilee lunch was a lovely celebration of food and community (oh, and the Queen, of course!). THANK YOU to Staunton's Group (a TFT partner), the staff at Yorkshire Pudding, and everyone who came out! Here are some photos from yesterday:

TFT HK Monday Update

Good morning and happy Monday!

Here's a brief round-up of last week's events, and a heads-up about what's going on with TFT HK this week:


1. We learned about sustainable viticulture and became "Tongue Explorers" with Eddie McDougall at the Flying Winemaker WineSkool:


Last Tuesday evening the TFT HK team and some of its supporters slipped on WineSkool lab coats, to be led through Eddie McDougall's Tongue Explorer class at The Flying Winemaker in Lan Kwai Fong.  Presenting us with a tongue map and four sustainable wines to taste, Eddie taught us to open our palates and our minds to the sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami flavors that combine to create the tastes we recognize as fruity, tannic, etc. He encouraged us to taste thoughtfully, and also to look beyond the bottle and be conscientious about the methods of farming used to produce the wine we drink.



A big thank you to Eddie, the Flying Winemaker team, chef Alexandre Talpaert (for the many delicious, wine-paired snacks!), and all those who came out to support TFT HK. It was a wonderful evening, and we look forward to future TFT events with Eddie!

A wonderful night for green oenophiles! 

Ready to taste