Well, the holidays are over and for most of us that means that the first commute to work is taking place right now and for most, that means the monotony of work is about to fall upon us once again. But, it also means that there is a whole year ahead of events, wine dinners, tastings and more taking place in Hong Kong and around the world so, for our first post of 2013, we thought we’d give you a rough idea of what’s in store in the coming twelve months here in Hong Kong.

January is a painfully slow month always with people considering the extravagance that has taken place throughout December with Christmas parties, holidays, Christmas itself and New Year. Most of us indulged in a big way over the last few weeks and for those who believe in resolutions, January is usually the month where people think about taking a rest from booze, getting fit and, generally try to remedy the largesse that their bodies have been bombarded with over the last month. Thus, nothing much really happens here in January but I am sure there will be tastings a plenty and the usual array of fine wine dinners in the city. There will, of course, be Acker, Merrall and Condit’s January auction taking place on the 25^th and 26^thin the Grand Hyatt.