Simon Tam to head Christie’s in China
Get our daily fine wine reviews, latest wine ratings, news and travel guides delivered straight to your inbox.
You are now subscribed
Your newsletter sign-up was successful
Auction house Christie's is stepping up its efforts in the Far East with the appointment of its first-ever head of wine for China.
Simon Tam, the founder of the Independent Wine Centre will lead the auction house’s move into Greater China from his Hong Kong base.
Christie’s has also added to its Asia team with a new head of marketing for the region and a Shanghai representative.
Francois Curiel, president of Christie’s Asia, said: ‘These appointments are part of a larger set of initiatives planned for 2011 which demonstrate, once again, our great commitment to Asia and our desire to offer the best service possible to collectors throughout the region.’
This week London merchant Bordeaux Index announced it will launch a wine school in Hong Kong. Hong Kong wine educator Anastasia Mak will run the school, based on Michael Schuster’s courses at Bordeaux Index’s London office.
Written by Rebecca Gibb
Get our daily fine wine reviews, latest wine ratings, news and travel guides delivered straight to your inbox.
Rebecca Gibb MW is a wine journalist and editor who has also founded Bamboozled games, ‘the world’s first wine and spirit puzzle makers’. Having spent six years living in New Zealand, she has recently returned to her native north-east England. While in New Zealand, she became a Master of Wine, graduating top of her class and winning the Madame Bollinger medal for excellence in tasting. A former winner of both the UK’s young wine writer of the year and the Louis Roederer Emerging Wine Writer, her first book The Wines of New Zealand was published in 2018. She also runs wine events and has her own consultancy business The Drinks Project. She was a judge at the 2019 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).