For reasons I’d rather not go into, I receive occasional emails from “Shelf Impact” (from the publishers of Packaging World!). Well, I’m sure you can imagine what a gripping read that is – however I shouldn’t criticise as occasionally something interesting does crop up.
Like this for example:
Jackson Family Wines in California have [...]
I read today in The Daily Yomiuri that JAL (Japanese Airlines) is replacing the glass wine bottles on their flights with lighter plastic ones.
Apparently this will reduce the weight of the plane by about 37kg (for 300 bottles) which will save them 20 litres of fuel and 52kg of CO emissions!
Who’d have thought?
The wine is [...]
Interesting little news article I found in today’s Daily Yomiuri (English language version of the Japanese newspaper).
Off license (liquor store) owner, Seiichi Hirai of Himeji and his partner have decided to try an experimental maturation technique with some sake and wine they have in their store.
Basically they are hanging 108 bottles of sake, and 48 [...]
I went out drinking with some ex-colleagues last night in an Izakaya (kind of like a Japanese Tapas bar I guess, many small dishes, lots of drinks), and it prompted me to write this blog entry.
Japan is not traditionally a wine drinking country (asides from Japanese rice wine, sake, of course), but over the last [...]
There are some people who aren’t happy about screw cap closures.
There are some people who wouldn’t touch wine if it came out of a box.
So what about wine in a can??
Every now and then on the front page of the Daily Yomiuri here in Japan (an English language newspaper) there’s an advert for wine in [...]
