Nick Rowan, creator of “Japanese Wine: Historical past, Areas, Wineries (and Cheese),” didn’t have a powerful impression of Japanese wine when he first tasted it in 1998 whereas working as an assistant language trainer underneath the Japan Trade and Instructing (JET) Programme in Akita Prefecture.
He can’t recall the range however thinks it may have been a Vitis labrusca grape, because it had a musky aftertaste that he wasn’t accustomed to.
On the time, he didn’t notice it will form a long-term fascination with Japanese wine.
