{"id":1981,"date":"2012-04-22T23:36:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-04-22\/1981"},"modified":"2012-04-22T23:36:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:36:54","slug":"a-bit-of-wine-tasting-at-kyoto-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-04-22\/1981","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wine Tasting at Kyoto Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1981'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"110660\" href='\/i\/JF7_110660.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_110660_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"\"\nid=\"i110660\"\nindexhint=\"top\"\nphotostream=\"misc\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>320 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 900 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_110660.jpg'>map &amp; full exif<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Try This One<\/span>\n<br\/>one of what must have been 1,000 wines\n<\/div>\n\n<p>This evening I went to a large (for Kyoto) wine-tasting event at Kyoto\nStation, sponsored by <a href='http:\/\/www.likaman.co.jp\/'>Liquor\nMountain<\/a> (<span class='nobr'>a sort<\/span> of Trader Joe's of central Japan). <span class='nobr'>I don't<\/span> know\nanything about wine other than &#8220;tasty, not tasty, untried&#8221;, so today was\nable to bolster the ranks of the first two categories.<\/p>\n\n<p>I went with Shimada-san, Paul Barr, and another friend, Luc...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"110577\" href='\/i\/JF7_110577.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_110577_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"\"\nid=\"i110577\"\nindexhint=\"top\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>320 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 1400 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_110577.jpg'>map &amp; full exif<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Luc<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"110705\" href='\/i\/JF7_110705.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_110705_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"\"\nid=\"i110705\"\nindexhint=\"top\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>320 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 2200 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_110705.jpg'>map &amp; full exif<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'><span class='nobr'>A Particular<\/span> Taste<\/span>\n<br\/>most every kind under the sun\n<\/div>\n\n<p>It was interesting to be able to taste (and compare\/contrast) so many\ndifferent products. <span class='nobr'>I learned<\/span> that there was no correlation between price\nand whether <span class='nobr'>I liked<\/span> it. <span class='nobr'>I kept notes<\/span> on <span class='nobr'>a few<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I really<\/span> liked, so I'll have\nto head over to Liquor Mountain next week to pick some up....<\/p>\n\n<p>I haven't really looked at the pictures yet, but most were like those above, so any followup\npost will likely be boring, but we'll see.<\/p>\n\n<p><i><a href='\/blog\/2012-05-09\/1992' class='quiet'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I went to a large (for Kyoto) wine-tasting event at Kyoto Station, sponsored by Liquor Mountain (a sort of Trader Joe's of central Japan). I don't know anything about wine other than \"tasty, not tasty, untried\", so today was able to bolster the ranks of the first two categories.<\/p> <p>I went with Shimada-san, Paul Barr, and another friend, Luc...<\/p> <p>It was interesting to be able to taste (and compare\/contrast) so many different products. I learned that there was no correlation between price and whether I liked it. I kept notes on a few I really liked, so I'll [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}