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Taketsuru 17 years Fukuoka, Kyushu While Id occasionally allow myself a treat in a night bar like here with this Nikka Taketsuru 17 years (delicious !), I gave up on buying these whiskies even in duty-free shops at the airport be cause the prices have risen so much due to the influx of wealthy Chinese tourists eager to spend on Japanese prestige brands. But on the side of spirits theres a hidden side European tourists dont look into enough, its the cheaper whisky range, often from unknown or lesser-known brands. Youll not find them in duty-free but rather in retail stores in the cities or even in supermarkets. You have a wide range to choose from and some of these bottles are surprisingly cheap, thats the ones I decided to try this time. I took some risks as I brought back 7 bottles in my checked bags (maximum for spirits is one liter), Airlines serving Japan often let you ...

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Hsiao Huang, of Kochang Fukuoka, Kyushu I made a couple of visits to natural-wine venues in Fukuoka, I had found some addresses on the web but ended to visit other place after my friend Alex from VineyardGate sent me a tip about one place, just telling me to look for @minnano_kochang. I did my part of research on the web and ended up finding the location and more exciting details through the tabelog page devoted to this venue... Comments of visitors were also interesting and helped me really find the door, as in Japan, many bars are not directly on the street level but are actually appartments either in upper stories with no particular sign on the door, or also in basements. In short, when you stroll in a street lined with restaurants in Japan, you miss possibly 50 % or more of the operating bars, theyre somewhere up there in buildings and you have to know by word of mouth. By...

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Nice after-work party ! Fukuoka , Kyushu (Japan) While Japan is known for having kept countrywide its age-old tradition of having good time with colleagues in bars after work, some cities like Osaka and Fukuoka bring with them an even richer food culture, given they were the entry port for foreign tastes and ways. Not that all foreign input were welcome : Hakata (an other name for Fukuoka) was the site of several attempts by Mongols at invading the country in the 13th century , these almost succeeded with the unpreparedness of the Japanse soldiers unused to face experienced and ruthless foreign armies. But two well-timed natural phenomena (a storm with changing winds and a typhoon named kamikaze ) turned the tables, allowing the defenders to go from an anticipated defeat to a divine victory.... This story is mostly a picture journey through the eating/drinking mores of ...

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Man, that was a tasting event ! This is Les Caves de la Vallée du Cher , this professionnal tasting took place on march 26 & 27 in the Cher valley (Loire) in 5 different cellars (theres one I didnt have time to visit alas) distant from 2 to 4 kilometers from each other in Faverolles sur Cher and Thésée. More than 50 vignerons took place, from the Loire and beyond. The protocol was very informal even if youre supposed to be in the trade to take part (if you love natural wine Im sure youd pass through as well), the entry fee was 5 �, youre given a screen-printed wine glass which will be your pass to access the 4 other sites. Street food could be purchased at each location. Video above : the site of the cellar of Les Maisons Br�lées . First cellar There were 5 cellars receiving the 150 vignerons that weekend, all a couple of kilometers from...

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The main room Malakoff, Paris suburb along the 14th arrondissement Thats it, Raw Wine made its debut in P�ris (march 12 & 13) after a long history (2012) of setting up tasting events along the past years in cities like London, Los Angeles, Berlin with the goal to present nature/biodynamic/organic producers to the growing crowd of winelovers focused on artisan wine. Raw Wine was created by Isabelle Legeron , a French expat who has been living in London for many years now, and given the UK culture of interest for all wine regions across the world, you find this global touch in the geographical diversity of the participating wineries. At Raw Wine Paris, some 150 wineries and vintners (see list here ) were presenting their wines and the interesting thing compared with our usual natural wine fair in Paris is that it was very international oriented with some 15 countries invo...

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Overview of two of the tasting rooms (there were three) Paris, 20th arrondissement There are always some tastings restarting at that time of the year, generally on mondays like here for professional events, I was tipped about this one otherwise Id have missed it, this was the second edition of it, Le Paris des Sens being a Paris-based distributor of artisan, biodynamic and natural wines who set up now every year a tasting with their winegrowers so that their buyers can get a feel of the available (or soon-to-be) cuvées (their IG page here ). There were a large number of vignerons (see the names below) in this tasting on january 16, many working on a small vineyard surface. The other nice thing here was the location for the tasting : Caché (means hidden in French) is a restaurant which is indeed hidden in a remote corner of the 20th arrondissemen...

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The crowd Paris, 12th arrondissement, This was another beautiful edition of La Goulayance , and it took place again in the premises of Ground Countrol , this vibrant venue set in a former railway locomotive workshop, I cant but encourage you to visit the place, have a drink, read books, play games, whatever this place offers which is pretty diverse, and families are welcome. Entry fee was 10 �, you were given a glass which you could keep after tasting the exciting natural wines of many vintners, who were present of course to chat with visitors and buyers. You could buy cases of wines or individual bottles on the site, that was also the good thing, direct from the producers. The vintn,ers took also time to walk around and taste their colleagues/friends wines of course and Im sure thats also what brought many of them here. I didnt taste many of them alas, having to ride my bike b...

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