This year, bons viveurs can enjoy the festival from home at the click of a button, accessing wine and meal deliveries and a series of online events where chefs and drinks experts share their recipes and recommendations. The Online Wine Cellar, for example, is stocked with recommendations and up to 50% discounts from more than 100 wine merchants. Browse bottles from France, Italy, Australia, South America, Japan and lesser-known producers in Lebanon and Turkey, as well as made in Hong Kong beers and spirits. On the food front, Gourmet At Home offers a curated list of 30 takeaway and delivery menus from top-tier hotels and restaurants. Highlights include a limited edition afternoon tea set by Grand Hyatt Hong Kong and The Perfect Roast by The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong. What’s more, buyers of the first 50 sets of every Gourmet At Home offering receives a Bordeaux wine and a set of wine glasses. 

For keen cooks, the festival’s online masterclasses bring the culinary action direct to your homes. Learn from the key players of the city’s cheffing game with cook-along kits and livestream workshops, including Tatler Dining’s 2019 Chef of the Year Vicky Cheng of VEA and Arcane’s Shane Osborn, the latter of whom starred The Final Table on Netflix. Chop Chop’s Chef Dai Lung will also run an online class on ‘sorrowful rice’, the signature charsiu and egg on rice dish that he created for Stephen Chow’s classic comedy God of Cookery. Meanwhile, oenophiles can learn about new wave Bordeaux in an online tasting led by respected critic James Suckling, and cocktail lovers can create their own with George Clooney’s Casamigos tequila, as taught by acclaimed mixologist Jay Khan of COA, which this year earned the number three spot on Asia’s 50 Best Bars list. The 34 themed livestreams and recordings of the masterclasses can be accessed by anybody around the world for free on the event website, and cook-along and tasting kits, which start from HK$150, can be purchased and delivered ahead of the sessions.