I found this little gem in the local supermarket the other day, and it’s an Australian wine so I’m sure this bottle is not exclusive to Japan, but it did have a certain Japanese feel to it in it’s clever design. It’s called “Dokodemo Wine” (どこでもワイン) in Japanese which translates as “Anywhere Wine” , because [...]
I wasn’t intending to rush out and buy a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau this year, I was just going to buy it when the opportunity arose, but on the 19th the boss of my company gave everyone 2 bottles as a gift. Very nice! This was one of them and a pretty good Beaujolais Nouveau [...]
Previous Katsunuma post On our recent trip to Katsunuma, one of the main wine regions in Japan, I took along my new toy, a video camera and shot some random footage. This is my first video posting and it’s pretty random but there was a reason for it… We’d just finished a huge bbq at [...]
I just love a gimmick. Especially when it comes to wine – for years (and to be honest still now) I used to choose wine solely on how cool, weird, stupid the label was. I used to drink some pretty average wine from Italy a lot just because it had a picture that looked like [...]
