Asia's biggest wine expo opens in Hong Kong
- Published: 29 May 2012 at 04.48
- Online news: Asia
The who's who of the wine world gathered in Hong Kong on Tuesday for Asia's biggest wine and spirits fair, hoping to tap the booming but still relatively young Chinese market.
Asia's biggest wine and spirits fair has opened in Hong Kong, giving the world's top producers from France to Argentina a chance to tap the booming but still relatively new Chinese market.
Organisers of the three-day Vinexpo Asia-Pacific expect demand for imported wine to weather the slowdown in Chinese economic growth, forecast to fall to 7.5 percent this year from 9.2 percent in 2011.
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