If a recipe calls for ‘Chinese cooking wine or dry sherry’, fino or manzanilla are good substitutes; sweet sherry is not.

Just before Brisbane-based Cantonese restaurant Central opened its doors for the first time in October, the Chinese-made ... means showing off the wine as well as food.” Mr Dai, a founding ...

For most, Shaoxing wine is that clear, amber-hued cooking essential with a distinctive aromatic nose that lends sweet and briny flavours to food, deepening and enriching dishes. But this 3,000 ...