Wine

Asian Art collectors and wine lovers, undaunted by economic jitters elsewhere in the world, flocked to Hong Kong auctions by five houses to snap up bottles of Petrus, contemporary art and snuff boxes.

Bottles of Petrus, a Qing dynasty vase and a Burmese ruby-and-diamond ring will test if Chinese demand for luxury items has been stymied by tumbling property prices, slower economic growth and a clampdown on art importers.

During his college years in Raleigh, North Carolina, Doc Hendley’s big priorities were playing the guitar, bartending and thundering through the city’s streets on his Harley Davidson.