Here is a reproduction of the integral article of the interview I had w/ Jim Thompson last month @ The Crown Wine Cellars Hong Kong - reproduced from Year 3, Number 9 - available in various newsstands in Hong Kong as well as Airport Lounges around Asia:

It is a wonderful mystery that a person who’s life is so intrically intertwined with the concepts ofperserverance and determination would one day restore a place and create from it a venue that would, without knowing it, epitomize so well these very concepts through its history and through a product of nature crafted half way across the globe, wine.

Jim Thompson’s life is the embodiment of perserverance and determination......