This week’s entry is another Intermission in our lengthy Days of Wine and Music series. Last week we mentioned this drink in our coverage of some of Shiino Foods’ offerings. If you haven’t already checked it out, please do so. Awamori is Okinawa’s most famous alcoholic beverage. It deserves greater international recognition, and we hope … Continue reading A JFEX GEM: Vintage Seifuku Awamori
This week’s entry is another Intermission in our lengthy Days of Wine and Music series. If you are the type of person who scrapes the caviar off the cracker and eats the roe, who cuts the decorative buttercream flower from the center of the birthday cake and consumes it whole, or drinks the rum and … Continue reading A JFEX Gem: Some Offerings from Shiino Foods
Japanese Cypress* This week’s entry is another Intermission in our lengthy Days of Wine and Music series. Well, it is late June when this is being written and that means only two things: 1) ultra-abysmal rainy-season weather and 2) JFEX, a huge food and beverage exposition that never disappoints. The venue for the former is … Continue reading A JFEX Gem: Yudanaka’s Blue Forest Ale
This is the tenth installment in our Days of Wine and Music series. Once again, we will provide our readers with more information on the Republic of San Marino, before we turn our attention in subsequent installments to the wines of the country and one winemaker-musician in particular. In this entry we will not include … Continue reading Striking Our Fancy
Piazza della Libertà - San Marino* This is the ninth installment in our Days of Wine and Music series. This week we present the Republic of San Marino in a nutshell. There is much that can be written about this tiny country whose highly attractive attributes could easily serve as a model for less successful … Continue reading The Republic of San Marino: An Introduction
This is the eighth entry in our Days of Wine and Music series. For the next few weeks, we will turn our attention to a country that, owing to its size, is nearly invisible on world maps and encounter a winemaker-musician who is producing some fine wines from local grapes, as well as from international … Continue reading Of Being a Big Fish in a Small Pond: Small Is Advantageous
This week’s entry is the second intermission in our Days of Wine and Music series. Instead of going to the lobby for a couple of boxes of candy or a bag of chips, or crisps, as the case may be, why not find a squeeze bottle of Jogurt and treat yourself to a delicious and … Continue reading Jogurt
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