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Dokodemo Wine – Anywhere Wine

MoIppai — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:49:13 +0000

Stamp Of Australia Wine

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 you can take it and drink it anywhere as you can see from the picture, the bottles “closure” is actually a plastic bottle which you unscrew and fill with the wine.

Hardys Shiraz Cabernet

Ingenious.

The wine itself is called Stamp of Australia and is produced by Hardys Winery in Australia and it’s not bad (bearing in mind it comes in a plastic bottle so you can’t expect Mouton Rothschild), it’s very drinkable and I’ll definitely be buying some for my next bbq by the river or picnic – just a shame I didn’t find it earlier for this years “Cherry Blossom Viewing”.

It’s a hell of a lot better than the other take-out wine, the canned wine from Barokes.

They also make a Chardonnay Semillion version which I’ll buy next time I’m the supermarket.

I reviewed the Shiraz/Cabernet Sauvignon “Stamp of Australia” here.
The Barokes Bubbly Red Wine is here and the Rose here.

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Beaujolais Nouveau 2009

MoIppai — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:33:14 +0000

Beaujolais Villages Nouveau 2009

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 it was too. (Review is here)
Fresh, fruity and lively.

Not sure how much it costs as obviously it was a gift, but apparently, in Japan at least, they are cheaper (about 10%) than last year, with most going for between ￥2000-2500 ($20-$25).

One company has actually decided to sell Beaujolais Nouveau in recyclable plastic bottles, reducing the cost even more. I think these go for about ￥800 ($8).
Would like to try one of those just to see what wine from a PET (plastic) bottle tastes like.

I have one more bottle to try which I’m sure I’ll be opening in the next week or so.

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Big Wine Bottles From Japan

MoIppai — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:29:07 +0000

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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…

Japanese style BBQ

We’d just finished a huge bbq at the B&B and decided to walk it off by wandering through the town.

We found a nice place where we could try grapes and I noticed they had an off-license attached.

Well, we had to have a look around, and was pleased to discover they served wine by the glass
It was only after ordering a couple of glasses I realised my wallet was back in the B&B!

My wife quickly volunteered to go back and left me with this ancient looking (but lovely) Japanese woman at the till.
Our conversation quickly stalled (her English was non-existant and my Japanese wasn’t good enough to fully understand her), so I wandered around a bit with my camera…

It’s not the most exciting video, but it does end on some interesting wine bottles. (and you can get a glimpse of the little old lady about 10 seconds in).

L'Espoir wine from Asaya Winery, Japan

In this area of Katsunuma they sell wine in normal sized bottles, but also huge 1.8litre ones (that are usually used for sake, Japanese rice wine).

The bottles are also not closed with corks, but like the sake, with plastic caps, that you prize off and push back on again to seal.

We later bought one of these large bottles from Asaya winery and the wine was pretty good.
L’Espoir Wine from Asaya Winery

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Wine in a fish shaped bottle

MoIppai — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:59:24 +0000

Villa Dante Boscato Rosso

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 The Godfather on the label (and it wasn’t from Ford Coppola’s winery!).

So when I saw a fish shaped bottle in the off license near my office, I just had to buy it. Although it was nearly topped by an Australian wine called Wally’s Hut – gonna get that next week I think.

It’s from Villa Dante winery in Tuscany, and inevitably (a gimmicky bottle kind of implies a not so good wine), it wasn’t a good wine.
I reviewed it here:
Boscato Rosso from Villa Dante but it’s one to avoid I’m afraid.

Another fish shaped bottle I found

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