The place held:
Restaurant Budo-ya
OAG House (German Cultural Inst. or Goethe Inst.)
7-5-56 Akasaka
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107
Tel: 03-3583-8263

Sellected by: --

Comments:
We have taste the line up of white wines that have been ranked 1^st or 2^nd at tasting events from 2001 to 2005. Please refer to the right. Vintage will be different and occasions are not the same. Some of them were even terminated or just not able to get it in Japan. We are rucky enough to get wines listed below,except ANTINORI. We could not find Cervaro della Sala at all so we substituted with Villa.
We have ranked them as usual. But maybe we should not have. It was not fair to Dry wine if sweet and dry were put in one pot. And, every one of them are good enough to be ranked as 1^st or 2^nd once in TWS. What more you would expect.

Listed from TWS previous tastings;

'00 Palliser Estate,
1st in "Riesling form around the World", June 15, 2001
'99 Aile d' Argent, (MoutonRothschild),
1st in "Bordeaux White Wine", February 15, 2002
'99 Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi
2nd in "Bordeaux White Wine" Tasting, February 15, 2002
'99 Cervaro della Sala, ANTINORI
1st in "Supreme Italian Chardonnay by GREAT PRODUCERS", April 14, 2002
'01TREBBIANO DI ROMAGNA,
1st in "Italian White", June 13, 2003
'02 Zind Humbrecht Riesling Rangen
1st in "Wines from Alsatian Winery Zind Humbrecht", January 16, 2004
'02 Staatsweingut Weinsberg Justinug K. Kerner Trocken,
2nd in "German Dry White", May 14, 2004
'02 Solaris, Manns Wine Shinshu
2nd in "Japanese White Wine", July 16, 2004
'00 Crochet Sancerre,
1st in "Sauvignon Blanc" Tasting, June 17, 2005

No

Wine

Year

Grape

Region

Yen

Shop

Points

Rank

1s

2s

Ls

A

Zind Humbrecht Riesling Rangen Clos St.Urbain

2002

Riesling

Alsas, France

8,825

Ginza-ya

29

1

6

1

O

B

Villa ANTINORI

2004

-

Toscana, Italy

1,350

Yamaya

66

6

1

1

1

C

Staatsweingut Weinsberg Justinug K. Trocken

2002

Kerner

Wurttemberg, Germany

4,535

Winax

51

2

0

4

1

D

Solaris, Manns Wine Shinshu

2002

Chardonnay

Japan

3,100

Cave de Relax

63

5

0

0

1

E

Crochet Sancerre

2000

Sauvignon Blanc

Loire, France

6,000

Ginza-ya

71

7

0

1

0

F

Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi, Il Bando (Monte Schiavo)

2002

-

Italy

3,360

Pieroth Japan

73

8

0

2

3

G

Aile d' Argent, (MoutonRothschild)

2003

-

Pauillac, France

6,000

Pieroth Japan

52

4

1

2

0

H

Palliser Estate,,,

2003

Riesling

Martinborough, NZ

1,980

Asahi-ya

51

2

4

1

3

I

Tre Mondi, Trebbiano Di Romagna, Vigna Del Rio

2003

Trebbiano

Romagna, Italy

1,350

Yamaya

84

9

0

0

3