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WINE WAYS

LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
May 11, 2000
Enjoying the best Austria has to offer
Ultimately wine appreciation is about the glorious moment when distinctive wine and discerning taste buds rapturously converge. Having visited over 150 wineries, I can assure you that this pleasure is possible at a winery wine tasting even after something as stressful, for example, as my rain-drenched late-night arrival on Dec. 8, 1995 in still-restless Herzegovina, well ahead of U.N. troops, knowing no one and having nowhere to stay.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Apr 13, 2000
Labels: required reading for wine appreciation
When a standard 750-ml/75-cl bottle of wine looms before you in a wine shop, a supermarket or on a restaurant table, a story is about to unfold. The bottle shape usually provides at least a clue to the producing region and the labels should be able to fill in all the basic data and sometimes more. In a previous column I explained bottle types in some detail. Our focus today is wine bottle labels: the neck label, the front label and the back label. Of these, the front label always appears and the others may or may not. If you have a wine bottle handy, it may help to keep it before you as you read this.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Dec 23, 1999
As millennium's end looms, go with the flow of timeless wine
In Japan eight is a lucky number. And in just eight days we'll be living the last day of the second millennium anno Domini.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Dec 9, 1999
Could you be drinking a glass of freaky Frankenstein wine?
How about a glass or two of Frankenstein wine?
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Nov 11, 1999
Whatever the varietal, the grape has to be great
Had any good wine lately? I'm sure you have, but make a note of Baron de Ley Reserva 1995. It is aged in oak for 24 months and is a typical yet wonderful Rioja red that's characteristic of those made from the elusively flavorful tempranillo grape, an indigenous Spanish varietal noted for its plummy, smoky, oaky flavors. It often has hints of vanilla, licorice and pipe tobacco. Baron de Ley's, with rich cherry fruit, and the Baron de Ley bodega is one of several outstanding wineries I visited this past May in Spain.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Oct 14, 1999
Heeding the siren call of Sopron's wine country
A Japanese friend I recently met amid the late-summer amalgam of humid heat, mucky air and urban frenzy suddenly assumed a rather wistful faraway look and expressed the desire to get away from the whole maddening throng and disappear into nature.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Sep 23, 1999
Chill out with the right white
With Japan's summer still parching throats as it turns its muggy-hot head toward autumn, let's turn our thoughts, and our thirsts, to wines for refreshment as the heat lingers on.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Sep 9, 1999
The healing power of the grape
What's your pleasure? Wine? Or Pepto-Bismol? Since returning two weeks ago from some fascinating times in sundry climes -- 60 days worth -- I've been particularly mindful of human health, not least my own. Travel can be tiring, and lower physical resistance. This airport, that airport. This station, that station. Trains, buses, catamarans, taxis -- all with luggage to pull, lift, shove, and store. Up the stairs, down the stairs. Taxi! And so on.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Aug 12, 1999
Virginia's wines gaining praise with a little help from Valhalla
The day after the Fourth of July, I had the pleasure of visiting two outstanding wineries in Virginia: Rockbridge Vineyard, founded in 1992 in Raphine, near Roanoke; and Valhalla Vineyards, started in 1993 on a mountain within the Roanoke city limits, and the city's first winery.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Jul 8, 1999
Wines you'll still love the morning after
As far back as the 11th century, Norse explorers, in what was to become America, had already perceived the winemaking possibilities of this vast, verdant land. Seven centuries later the sagacious American statesman Thomas Jefferson began dabbling in grape-growing. One might assume, then, that by now America would have a two-century-long history of making worthy wines.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Apr 8, 1999
Sommeliers blowing smoke over corks
Years ago as a university student in Tokyo it was my good fortune to have a job with a famous design firm that had me in every week to critique their designs, write the English-language text for their creative work and occasionally translate and interpret for colleagues visiting from abroad.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Mar 25, 1999
Cornucopia's savory memories
Spring is here, hard on the heels of Foodex '99, the food-and-beverage spectacular I mentioned two weeks ago during its four-day run at Makuhari Messe.
LIFE / Food & Drink / WINE WAYS
Feb 25, 1999
If you must be snowbound, try a cozy winery in Europe
As winter wanes I'm reminded of its vinous pleasures in places along my latest wine route, such as Austria, Slovenia, Belgium, Luxembourg and, just before Christmas, Germany, where I visited Adolf Schmitt, an outstanding wine maker whose estate is one of those in the wine association Saar-Mosel-Winzersekt Gmbh (SMW, Gilbertstrasse 34, D-54230, Trier, fax +49 [651] 975-2920). Trier is a wine center of distinction and Germany's oldest city, with roots as far back as 2,000 years before Roman times.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Ukraine is far from doomed
When comparing Ukraine’s military situation in 2024 to Europe’s in 1941, Russia’s defeat seems entirely possible.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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