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Strengthening US wine labelling, new EU trade deals, market reports, more bottles lighten up
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 30 January 2026
• 1 min read
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25th anniversary tasting of mature Australian wines in Tokyo
Team JR
Wednesday 28 January 2026
• 2 min read
Travel tips
Japan wine – a trip through Nagano
Guest contributor
Wednesday 3 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Denis Gastin, the Australian with a particular interest in Asian wines, and especially those of Japan, sends this report. I...
Drinks not wine
See also Vintage port and sake. One evening earlier this month, the evening after the vintage port tasting described in...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also Fine sake – the tasting notes. For...
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The week before last, all roads seemed suddenly to be leading towards sake. See Sake on the move. On the...
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Australian Denis Gastin who has long taken a special interest in Asian domestic wine production sends this report of last...
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A version of this article is published by t he Financial Times. See also my tasting notes on Japanese wines...
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See an overview of wine in Japan, Land of the rising grape. A wind of change has been blowing through...
Nick on restaurants
Just as our lunch had been served (far too early, such is the wont of airlines) as our plane made...
Tasting articles
Hiro Kusuda (see this article from 2009) took his first holiday in 20 years last September. He and his wife...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. The tip off came from a restaurateur friend. Did...
Nick on restaurants
There was probably not a more cosmopolitan table anywhere. Of the 22 gathered around us there were two sous chefs...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. As with the very best one-man shows, the one just opened...
Alder on America
1 May - We recently published Australian Master of Wine Ned Goodwin’s decidedly negative views on the Japanese wine scene...
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1 May - Alder Yarrow responds to the article below with one of his monthly columns, An American perspective on...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. 'My first wife was second cook in a third-rate restaurant on...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . Last month I witnessed the...
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