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My Wine Review Website

Silentjim — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:38:10 +0000

I love a bit of wine, and since I’ve been in Japan I’ve been keeping notes on the wine I drink (and taking the occasional photo).

We’ve been going nearly every week for 3 years to a great wine bar in Ashiya, Petit Emillion, so been trying different wines each week.

So, I decided to make a wine review website so I could keep track of what I drank, and liked and disliked, and then I thought, why not let other people sign up and keep track of what they like, dislike etc.

A couple of weeks ago it went ‘live’ as they say, so why not check it out if you have time (and like a tipple or two).

It’s at www.moippai.com Wine Reviews (just click this link).

I’m in the process of adding a beer, whiskey and sake review section too, which should be up and running in a couple of weeks.

So please join (it’s free of course!), and start adding your own reviews or commenting on my (unprofessional) ones

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Post tags: Asahi, Drinking in Japan, Sake, Wine

Sake Tour of Kobe

Silentjim — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:28:37 +0000

The other week we took a 15 minute ride on the train to our local sake brewery area, and did a very pleasant tour of some of the breweries and their bars
I blogged about it at my wine, beer and sake blog at MoIppai.com :
Sake Tour of Hyogo Part One

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Some Nice Japanese Fellas

Silentjim — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:46:42 +0000

Had a very fun and interesting experience just now. Aki had gone out this evening to meet an ex work colleague, and a couple of his friends for dinner. I hung around the house, blogging, watching Death Note on TV (more on that when I get a chance), and drinking beer.

Then a phone call, they’re coming back for drinks. Quick panic as my Japanese is not good, and I sense they don’t speak much English (I was wrong).

Any road up, 3 men turn up, drunk as skunks in many bunks (not even sure if that’s a phrase, but they made me drink sake, so who knows), and a most entertaining evening (well, about an hour) ensued. They were all very nice guys, and they kept apologising for intruding on my evening (Japanese put the
English to shame sometimes with their politeness), especially the drunkest one (I’m an English teacher you know), and we happily albeit, confusedly, drunk a bottle or so of sake together. They are all salarymen, although one is a salaryman working in Istanbul, so probably not called that there. And 2 spoke fairly good English, and one spoke a mixture of drunk and Kansai/Kobe ben (dialect), so I didn’t understand any of it.
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