Japanese Wine

Some more figures on California wine exports: " California is the nation’s ... Union ($2.1 billion); Japan ($957 million); and China/Hong Kong ($638 million). "Top export products in 2007 were: almonds ($ 1.8 billion);...

Welcome to Snooth, lsuttell. So does your designated driver also use Excel to ... possibly has a future with a Japanese travel agency. ;-) Any wines particularly come to mind from among the oceans you tasted? And did you...

OK, maybe I'm getting a little carried away with my experimentation. This ... A lot of eel gets eaten in Japan (prepared in very different ways then this, of course), and I personally like it, so this was an easy choice...

Cigarman, not always so and needn't be so. I've had plenty of success with ... wines from the US to Japan, both on a retail and a reefer pallet basis, and from various states into California. You just need to qualify your...

Perhaps, Greg, some of the reasons why the Mallorcans don't get jam from French ... most always get annoyed with Japanese TV programming that displays indiscriminate harvesting, etc. of fish without any awareness of what...

dmcker - Yes, I am half Japanese and half Korean. How lucky of you to be in Tokyo! I have yet to venture to my "motherland" haha. I bet you are enjoying lots of good sake, another favorite of mine. My family is actually...

Yoshiyoshi, should I assume you're of Japanese descent? The phrase 'yoshiyoshi' in Japanese has a myriad of uses--from an enheartening phrase as you're getting ready to take on a large task, through use as a phrase to calm...

My roommate received a 2- pak of Kobe Japan DUET White Dry & Red Sweet wine ( .375 ltrs) from a company called SAKURAMASAMUNE Co. LTD. What are the qualities of these wines and should we age then a little. What food are they best with?

Mike

In Japan, which has more than plenty of humidity for more than half the year, airconditioning units definitely dry the air too much. And even in a proper cellar where no machinery is needed the winters here get dry enough...