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Mainichi
Daily News (Japan)
Tuesday, March 20, 2001 Going
back to the future
by Adrian Beard
Last
Wednesday I went to Foodex only to find that it was such a big
event that I had to go back the following day to do it justice.
It is always interesting to go to food and wine exhibition
because, in a way, you are looking into the future of what
people will be eating and drinking. For example, I first sampled
an excellent Cabernet Sauvignon from Bodegas Weinert at Vinexpo
last summer, but now I can buy it five minutes away from where I
live in Tokyo.
Tomasello
Winery produces conventional wines as well and this may be why
the fruit wines were so good - they know the high standards that
wine drinker expect. It will be interesting to see where this
new style of quality fruit is going.
If
you want to look into the future yourself, you can buy the
Blueberry and Raspberry offerings for around 2,400 yen at
Isetan. The other fruit wines will follow soon as, I'm sure,
will the competition; the revelations about the health benefits
of red wine helping kick-start the wine boom here.
Now
it is blueberries that are getting all the press. Indeed in the
same USA pavilion I sampled a tasty refreshing (and healthy?)
blueberry beer from BluBeer.
There
were a lot of new wines to be distributed and I shall be on the
lookout for them in the future.
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