When my wife and I visited Yamanashi prefectures, Katsunuma – the city of Grapes and Wine – in Japan last summer we picked up some “ワイン風呂” (Wine Furo) which are basically wine coloured and scented bath salts.
At first I thought they actually had wine in them but when we used them for the first time [...]
Every first Sunday of the month our local off-license, Rive Gauche, has an informal wine tasting. We’ve been going there for a few months now, and finally got around to writing about it.
Basically you pay about ￥2000-3000 ($20-30) depending on the wine selection, and get to taste around 20 wines, usually starting with a [...]
A while ago a reader of this blog contacted me about the Villa Dante Boscate Rosso wine (in the gorgeous fish shaped bottle).
Which I blogged about a while ago (here).
Basically this person wanted to know where they could buy this wine in America (Florida, specifically).
Well I found the bottle in Osaka, Japan, so unfortunately I [...]
A while ago I bought a book (or rather a Mook – a magazine/book) about wine here in Japan, called the “Basic Wine Book” – ワイン基本ブック which is, as the title suggests a beginners guide to wine. And pretty useful it is too.
It has sections on the major wine regions in the world, and discussions [...]
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 [...]
