Photo courtesy of Yamanize on Flickr
Well not quite but a Canadian meat producer in British Columbia, Sezmu Meats has decided to give it’s cows wine to improve the quality of the meat. (I learnt about this from an article by Jeremy Hainsworth of the Associated Press, to give credit where credits due).
Kobe… Continue reading
Kurate Wine from Japan
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… Continue reading
Koshu Wine from Japan
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… Continue reading
Sake Barrel
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… Continue reading
On a hill overlooking Katsunuma is an onsen (spa) and wine tasting tourist centre calledBudou no oka – ぶどうの丘 or The Hill of Grapes in English, which we visited on our last day before heading home, and in hindsight perhaps it would have been better to go there first.
The View from the Hill of Grapes
