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(Continued from “The Quintessence of Japan II” on 8 January 2016) For all the cultural and technical similarities between sake and wine, the concept of rice polishing in sake brewing has
Turkey (officially the Republic of Turkey) is one of the few contiguous transcontinental countries in the world. Situated on the European side, its capital Istanbul used to be Constantinople and
(Continued from “The Golden State V” on 29 January 2016) There seems to be two watershed moments, largely concurrent, in the meteoric rise of Californian wine in the secound
Home to one of the most ancient winemaking cultures in the world, Lebanon has been producing wine for at least 5,000 years. Archaeology indicates that vitis vinifera was probably brought
The comparison and contrast between Bordeaux and Burgundy seem to have an uncanny power to constantly attract passionate arguments from both camps. This age-old topic is argued along the lines
(Continued from “The Golden State IV” on 24 December 2015) As California’s largest and most prolific county-level AVA (American Viticultural Area), Sonoma County has under its name 16 district-level
Covering just over half a million square kilometres, Spain accounts for a lion’s share of 85% of the total area in the Iberian Peninsula. Often ranked the 3rd largest –
(Continued from “The Cisalpine Ethos” on 18 December 2015) Revered since Roman times, Piemonte (or Piedmont in English) has always been one of the leading wine regions in the Apennine Peninsula,
(Continued from “The Quintessence of Japan” on 11 December 2015) Although the origin of sake remains shrouded in mystery, it is commonly held that it did not come into being without
Mongolia’s most famous son Genghis Khan – and his descendants – may have created the largest contiguous empire in world history and reigned supreme along the Silk Road, but the
(Continued from “The Golden State III” on 27 November 2015) For long periods in its viticultural history, the US did not have any formal appellation system in place, and the perimeters
Situated in northwestern Italy, Piemonte (or Piedmont in English) neighbours France to its west and Switzerland to its north. As revealed by its name, which literally means “at the foot
It is widely accepted that cereal wine originated from East Asia, and subsequently reached Southeast Asia and South Asia. The umbrella term “cereal wine”, referring to a wide variety of
By far the single largest country in the world, Russia spans from 41st to 82nd parallels north. Barring its limitrophe regions bordering Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine as well as along
(Continued from “The Golden State II” on 30 October 2015) The Central Coast is a large and geographically elongated regional AVA (American Viticultural Area) stretching from San Francisco Bay to Santa
At the crossroad of Germanic and Latin cultures, Belgium is one of the youngest countries of the Old Continent, becoming an independent state only in 1830. Situated along the 50th
Situated in northwestern Spain bordering Castilla y León to its east and Portugal to its south, Galicia – not to be confused with the other Galicia between Poland and Ukraine
(Continued from “The Irish Spirit” on 1 October 2015) The Irish diaspora is unique that an overwhelming majority of people claiming to have Irish ancestry live not on the Emerald Isle
(Continued from “The Golden State” on 9 October 2015) Roughly the size of Sweden and with approximately 1,200 producers, California is overwhelmingly the largest wine-producing state in the US, responsible for
(Continued from “The Catalonian Hinterland” on 25 September 2015) That the Catalan region of Roussillon (Spanish: Rosellón; Catalan: Rosselló) is French but not Spanish and, therefore, that its wine follows the
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