{"id":398,"date":"2008-09-15T22:22:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T03:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/09\/15\/repost-anime-wine-mover\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T22:22:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T03:22:35","slug":"repost-anime-wine-mover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/15\/repost-anime-wine-mover\/","title":{"rendered":"Repost: Anime Wine Mover"},"content":{"rendered":"

I confess that I had a pixar marathon this weekend (Incredibles, Ratatouille two times each), and It really helped me rediscover cooking again. I was planning a hackaton last saturday but it became a cookfest!
\nThanks to j for the pointer: from here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Anime Sommelier
\nInteresting piece from the Times Online <\/a>on the biggest trend shaping the Japanese wine market:
\nEntire 20,000-bottle shipments of burgundy sell out within hours in Tokyo if he so much as looks at a glass, South Korea’s biggest film star is lined-up to play him in a TV drama and he has converted thousands of Asian women into the most discerning oenophiles.
\nIn the rarefied world of superstar sommeliers, there may be none greater than Shizuku Kanzaki. The only snag is that he is a cartoon.
\nDespite his two-dimensional limitations, the hero of Kami no Shizuku (The drops of the gods) has emerged as an extraordinarily potent mover of Asian wine markets \u2014 far more so, say some in the industry, than flesh-and-blood wine critics.
\nThe sales records of Japan’s largest wine merchants have been smashed because, in a single frame of comic, the hero has uttered a dreamy sigh over a 2006 New Zealand Riesling or closed his eyes in appreciation of a Saint-Aubin Premier Cru.
\n…….Shizuku’s adventures are read by about 500,000 Japanese each week and book collections of the comics have sold millions of copies. Wines that feature in his weekly manga activities regularly become overnight hits, particularly for Japan’s frenetic online wine markets.
\nIn Taiwan a single reference to a relatively obscure French terroir shifted dozens of cases of the stuff within a few days.
\n…..
\nWatch your back Parker.
\nPosted by J at 8:43 PM
\nLabels: Miscellany
\nThe Meaningfulness of Little Things: Anime Sommelier<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I confess that I had a pixar marathon this weekend (Incredibles, Ratatouille two times each), and It really helped me rediscover cooking again. I was planning a hackaton last saturday but it became a cookfest! Thanks to j for the pointer: from here: Anime Sommelier Interesting piece from the Times Online on the biggest trend … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Repost: Anime Wine Mover”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}