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Japan wine – an essential guide

Tamlyn Currin

Tamlyn Currin

Monday 8 June 2026 • 1 min read

Japan cheese

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Nick Rowan’s new book is an amazingly complete guide to the wine (and cheese!) of Japan, for amateurs and professionals alike.

Japanese Wine
History, regions, wineries (and cheese)
Nick Rowan
Self-published
ISBN 9781806054961
£50

‘And cheese’?!

Maybe I would not have been surprised if a book on Japan wine included a little chapter on sushi. But cheese? Japanese cheese? I was now not only really intrigued but beginning to get an inkling that I was going to learn more about Japan in this book than I’d bargained for.

There are two books on Japan wine tucked into my bookshelf: a Classic...

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