Jul 15, 2011

Originally published in Seoul Magazine’s July issue Uncorking the Captial – Seoul’s Top Wine Bars Seoul has plenty to offer wine lovers— if you know where to look Written by Joshua Hall Finding good wine in Korea used be extremely difficult, with the selection available limited to big brands and bulk wines. In the last five years Korea has...

Jul 6, 2011

  이탈리아와인 비노 꼬또 Vino Cotto, or “cooked wine” as it’s known to Italians, is here in Korea. I saw this for the first time at the Daejeon Wine Festival on May 7th.  Importer Vino Cotto, (the company is named after their main portfolio), was one of five importers at the event in Daejeon city, 164km south of Seoul. While...

Jun 1, 2011

  By Joshua Hall Contributing Writer DAEJEON, May 27 (Yonhap) — For one of South Korea’s largest cities known best for its sprawling science town and as a host of top-name corporate research centers, holding sommelier contests was rather odd. But Daejeon, a major provincial city 164 kilometers south of capital Seoul, has turned to wine as a...