Topic: Japan

China bigger market than U.S. for crisis-hit Bordeaux

PARIS (Reuters) - China has become the biggest export market for Bordeaux wines outside the European Union as overall exports have collapsed due to the economic crisis and a strong euro put some wines beyond U.S. and British buyers. The sector has ...
Swirl, sniff and slurp(ee)? 7-Eleven brings out a value wineWhat goes well with Slim Jims and Slurpees? 7-Eleven wine, naturally. The convenience store chain announced Tuesday it is getting into the value wine business, releasing two low-priced proprietary wines in the United ...

The manga that poured French wine into Asia

In the cobblestone square of Bages, a tiny village in the Medoc wine country, a dozen influential Bordeaux vintners dressed in flowing red robes gathered for an unlikely event. The vintners from southwest France were about to induct two Japanese comic book ...

Japanese bathe in Beaujolais

Japan's love of Beaujolais Nouveau hasn't gone cold, at least in this mountainous hot spring resort where people began bathing in the light red wine Thursday. Roughly two dozen visitors at the Hakone Kowakien Yunessun spa resort braved the cold temperature to ...