Hokkaido Wine Academy

 

Sep. 5

I joined to a wine seminar organized by Hokkaido Wine Academy as a guest teacher.

The seminar was held at Hokkaido University.

 

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The campus was so beautiful.

 

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Hokkaido Wine Academy is operated by Hokkaido Government in order to support young winemakers and grape growers.

 

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The seminar was held from 9:00 to 17:00.

It was a long seminar.

 

 

There were three guest teachers.

 

Mr. Hans Peterson from Cornell University

Ms. Yumi Tanabe from Wine & Wine Culture

Mr. Kunio Naito from Cave de Relax

 

 

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At first, Mr. Peterson, who is a professional grape grower in Finger Lake, New York , lectured how to control grape growing at the cold area.

 

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Then I lectured how Hokkaido Wine approaches the market.

 

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Finally, we had a wine tasting led by Ms. Tanabe, who is a famous wine specialist in Japan.

 

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We tasted seven bottles of fine Finger Lake wine.

 

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Every student studied very hard.

I hope I did good job.

 

Thank you very much for inviting such a great opportunity.

 

 

 

I took a late night flight to Tokyo.

 

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I had a nice sushi dinner at the airport sushi bar.

I tasted a half bottle of Medoc at the lobby.

 

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Very tired…..