Hosting a Wine Meetup at 2chef, Hongdae
Somehow I’d ended up with a few bottles sleeping at home, so I threw a small wine gathering with some members of my club. My cellar is tiny, so wines that are ready to drink need to be drunk quickly befo…
Somehow I’d ended up with a few bottles sleeping at home, so I threw a small wine gathering with some members of my club. My cellar is tiny, so wines that are ready to drink need to be drunk quickly befo…
After a quick lunch I meet up with a friend who lives in Tokyo. We used to go to izakaya a lot whenever we got together, but these days it’s mostly home parties. It works out cheaper and we can hang out …
Those who know me know that I’m seriously picky about Western food, so in Korea I try to stick to Korean food. A friend who knows this about me all too well invited me along, saying he’d found a de…
Katsunuma in Yamanashi Prefecture is famous as the home of a cluster of well-known wineries that show up in Oishinbo and The Drops of God. I’d been waiting since spring for October, when the grape harves…
Wine is really cheap in Japan. I bought a few bottles to share with friends, and while I was looking for a place to drink them, I heard there was a spot near Gangnam Station with free corkage, so I dropped by….
I met up with some friends I hadn’t seen in a while in Yeouido. Since it was a long holiday weekend, we went back and forth on where to go and ended up at Mad for Garlic. Well… a safe choice, right…
Lately I’ve had a bit more breathing room, so every time I come back to Korea I’ve been trying new wines with a friend who’s into wine. On this visit we threw a small party at my friend’…
I’ve got a few bottles(!) of wine ready for this trip to Korea. Getting them ready meant digging through a mountain of info on French and Italian wines, plus wine retail listings in Japan and Korea. Alon…
This year’s Beaujolais Nouveau is at least up to Vin de pays level. What a surprise… Last year’s was more like table wine (Vin de table)… Even so, the value for money is still poor̷…
There was a Carrefour near the hotel I was staying at. For a combined dinner and late-night snack (I’d had ramen as a late lunch..) I picked up a few things and tried them. The wine is a half bottle of R…
By “wine in Japan” I don’t mean Japanese-made wine. ^_^;; I just want to talk a bit about the wine that’s sold in Japan. Wine culture took root in Japan much earlier than in Korea, and …