FG tries to make silk purse from sow's ear

[Mulboyne]

[Taro Toporific]

...Looking for the best grapes, Singer chose Katsunumacho, Yamanashi Prefecture, a well-known wine-producing region....
...2) wines that are fermented in Japan. Some wine labeled domestic is actually a blend of domestic and imported wine, especially bulk wine, and some is made from imported grape must (concentrated grape juice) and fermented in Japan

<OINK> I've been to Katsunumacho, Yamanashi many<OINK> many times because my sponsor was a drunk and shareholder in one of those <OINK> new wannabe wineries..."wine pork" tastes better.


PS: Has anybody been forced to drink wine from Chinese vinters?<OINK> My pigs would not drink it.

[dimwit]

<OINK> I've been to Katsunumacho, Yamanashi many<OINK> many times because my sponsor was a drunk and shareholder in one of those <OINK> new wannabe wineries..."wine pork" tastes better.

I am just waiting for them to start developing Happo-wine

[Dhee]

..."On the hills of Katsunuma, Japan's main wine-producing region, girls in velvet dresses crush grapes with their bare feet..."

Hey, I Fox TV (US) had footage on that the other day - two girls stomping on the grapes (close-up on the feet).
Sigh: makes me feel so much closer to you FG-dudes!

(Gotta watch Fox TV to get good laughs at their Bush-cheerleading campaign!)

[Mulboyne]

Asahi: PROGRESS, NOT PERFECTION: Wine, students develop at farm
The mission? To create internationally renowned wine from domestically grown grapes. The obstacles? Fungus, bugs, rot, disease and, more generally, Japan's humid climate and daunting terrain. The prospects? Not stellar, but not hopeless. For Bruce Gutlove, managing director of Coco Farm & Winery in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, it's all the more reason to plan for the future. "We'll all be old and gray and in the ground before that happens," he says. "It will take generations."...Coco Farm & Winery is not your typical winery. The land is far from the gently undulating terrain of Napa Valley or the south of France, and its employees all have either mental or physical disabilities. It's a place that lives up to its name: Coco comes from the Japanese word kokoromi, which means to attempt something, or try a new venture...more...

[devicenull]

PS: Has anybody been forced to drink wine from Chinese vinters?<OINK> My pigs would not drink it.

Great Wall and Dragon are pretty good if you give them a chance. NOTHING will ever convince me to buy "Beijing Red Wine" ever, and I stress that EVER again. 8 kuai a bottle, such a great deal! This crap might pass off as a cooking wine, but nothing else. Pony up your 15 kuai and get the Great Wall stuff.

[dimwit]

On the topic of Chinese wines

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050415.wicewine16/BNStory/International

Beijing — The pirates of China are energetic, but their knowledge of Canadian geography is a little shaky.

On the wine shelf of a Beijing supermarket, a label on a slender bottle shows a bucolic seaside scene. "Whistler Estates," it proclaims confidently. "Canada ice wine."

Apparently unaware that Whistler is a West Coast ski resort, the supplier has added another label on the same bottle: "Niagara Fall Pensula" [sic]. And then on a smaller label: "Rocky Mountain ice wine."

The misspellings and geographical blunders might be laughable, but the damage inflicted on Canadian exports is deadly serious. Within a few short years, Chinese shops have been flooded with counterfeit Canadian ice wine products, nearly destroying the market for the genuine product. The cost to Canadian wineries in lost sales and ruined trademarks has been incalculable

[Ptyx]

A good take on japanese wine : My braza

If I had to define Mon Frere it would be along the lines of the following:

A unique, economical wine-like drink that is quite probably made with some real wine�

Although, that really doesn't do it much justice. I'm not much of a wine drinker, which is probably a good thing when drinking Mon Frere but something about this beverage really struck a chord with me. It is really hard to explain just what makes the Mon Frere experience so distinctive..

[Mulboyne]

[Catoneinutica]

[Samurai_Jerk]

[Catoneinutica]

This guy doesn't know shit. Japanese women are totally devoid of any personality.

Isn't that what he was saying?

BTW, the FT piece was written by the, uh, resilient Jancis Robinson. She doesn't come off too well in this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Billionaires-Vinegar-Mystery-Worlds-Expensive/dp/0307338789/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267961273&sr=8-7

[Greji]

Isn't that what he was saying?

BTW, the FT piece was written by the, uh, resilient Jancis Robinson. She doesn't come off too well in this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Billionaires-Vinegar-Mystery-Worlds-Expensive/dp/0307338789/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267961273&sr=8-7

Well, if she thinks they ain't got none, she's never had to face a J-gal after coming home shit-faced with lipstick on your knickers. You see a helluva lot of personality then. But, then again, maybe she has had that experience.....

[Samurai_Jerk]

Isn't that what he was saying?

Not much does not equal not any.

[dimwit]

A couple of summers ago I got dragged along on a winery tour of some place up in Hiroshima. I must admit the place looked like any number of vinyards I have been to in Niagara or France, until it came time to tasting the product. It was somewhere between cooking wine and box wine in quality, and the nasty aftertaste stayed with me for about two days. Mind you 30 years ago that is what most Canadian wines were like and so I don't think Japan is without hope in producing something good in the future, provided that the breweries keep their paws out of it.

[FG Lurker]

It was somewhere between cooking wine and box wine in quality, and the nasty aftertaste stayed with me for about two days.

I've only had Japanese wine once, and that is exactly what it was like.