[/floatr]Dallas Morning News: A sushi wine with global credentials
Just like every other business, globalization has hit the business of wine...So finding a Japanese woman making a Spanish wine to go with sushi should be no surprise...Yoko Sato worked as an import wine manager in Japan and studied winemaking in Catalonia, Spain. She is a winemaker for Spain's Ferrer family of Freixenet. Having never tasted a wine that she felt complemented sushi, she experimented for more than a year, finally settling on a blend of airen, macabeo and muscat... The name of the wine is Oroya, Spanish for a basket used to transport goods across a river, symbolizing her wine journey from Japan to Spain...more...
