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Women hold the key to the Japanese market

As the wine industry searches for the magic bullet to increase wine sales in Japan, savvy wine pros say that a second wine tsunami will happen if the industry merely notices that the majority of Japan's wine consumers are women.

Yes, a few men are spending huge sums on Grand Cru and Parker-point wines, but most Japanese men are quite happy to sip beer, sake and shochu over comfort food of curry rice or grilled fish in inexpensive restaurants. It is the women who are out there daily in the trenches of fusion, European and Southeast Asian restaurants, pondering if New World Riesling is the right match for Vietnamese pho or pumpkin risotto.(Continue Reading)

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