Way back at the beginning of the year, February I think, I visited the Osaka Gift Show for my job (nothing to do with wine unfortunately). The Gift Show is a trade exhibition for various gadgets, crafts, gifts and other “novelty” items. Amongst all the usb drives, personalised pen printing machines and hand made leather [...]
Previously I wrote a post about a group of wineries from Yamanashi prefecture travelling to the UK to promote Koshu Wines there, and also about my visits to Katsunuma (in Yamanashi prefecture), and some of the wineries there including Grace Winery. Well, I’ve just read in the paper this morning that Koshu, as a wine [...]
Bit of a techie post today. In today’s newspaper there was an article about how a group of Japanese scientists have discovered that soaking a special type of iron in red wine, sake or beer makes it a superconductor (a superconductor conducts electricity without resistance, i.e very fast). The cool sounding Nano Frontier Materials Group [...]
Several studies including one by Frost & Sullivan for The Nutrition Research Newsletter in June 1996 have found that foods containing histamine (such as wines) can cause headaches in people who are intolerant to histamine.Mind you, isn’t that like saying “Punching people in the face can hurt people who are intolerant to being punched in [...]
