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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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kiwiliz
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Location: New Zealand
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Oh wouldn't it be lovely to get a nice range of wines to choose from that you don't have to pay 4 times the price for!!!!!!!!!
And please...don't just import that horribly over sweet yucky stuff! There is enough of that made here.! |
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GoldMember
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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I've noticed the wine makers are getting smarter these days, especially the ones from Australia, Chile and France. They are marketing "Sweet Wine" especially for the Korean market.
Also some of the Supermarkets have a house brand.
Stuff to stay away from.
The reasonably priced French wines here are disgusting.
People here are slowly getting into wine. Lots of wine clubs on the net. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| kiwiliz wrote: |
| And please...don't just import that horribly over sweet yucky stuff! There is enough of that made here.! |
Sticky sweet wine? Do you mean Concord wine? Too late. It's everywhere, and I think it's the most popular wine here amongst Koreans. |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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the only wine i bother to drink is laroque (a french table wine) from emart. 3500 won a bottle, probably 1 euro or less back in france. isn't that nice, but it isn't sugar-fied it's affordable to enough to drink on a daily basis. i laugh when i see some of the california sugar-wines selling for 10,000 won - that's what the bums drink out of paper bags.
korea needs a charles shaw two-buck-chuck revolution. |
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BRawk
Joined: 14 Oct 2007
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I think the wine selection in Korea has drastically improved over the last few years. While it used to be the majority of wine sold here was sweet, it is now ovwerwhelmingly dry red wines that are sold.
There are very few wines that are any good for under ten bucks (actually very few for under twenty bucks for that matter.) If you care about the wine you drink and don't mind paying a little more, than shop at department stores and wine shops. Californian wines are redicuously overpriced here, but many South American wines are comparable to the price you would pay in North America and can be quite nice. Australian Shiraz can be reasoably priced as well.
What needs to improve is the selection of white wines, which in most stores is maybe 10% of the wine stocked, at best. If you enjoy a mosel reisling, which is a sweeter wine but definitly not a concord, the Mujuang reisling which you can buy just about anywhere for under 8000 is quite nice. Despite polpular Korean belief, like all Mujuang wine, it is not made in Korea only labeled in Korea. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| BRawk wrote: |
| I think the wine selection in Korea has drastically improved over the last few years. |
Agreed.
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| While it used to be the majority of wine sold here was sweet, it is now ovwerwhelmingly dry red wines that are sold. |
Not sure why that is, because in my experience, Koreans like sweet wine much better than dry wine. Maybe because it's fashionable or considered high-class?
| BRawk wrote: |
| Californian wines are redicuously overpriced here, but many South American wines are comparable to the price you would pay in North America and can be quite nice. |
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200706/200706280024.html
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| The first wave of change came with the 2004 Korea-Chile FTA. In 2003, Chile was the fifth largest supplier of wine to Korea with a 6.2 percent share, but the Korea-Chile FTA pulled that share to 13.3 percent, helping the Southern American country become Korea's number two wine supplier. |
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| The second wave of change is expected to splash down with the recently concluded Korea-U.S. FTA, which will throw the door open for American wines. |
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| The Korean wine industry expects the Korea-EU free trade agreement will cause a third seismic shift in Korea's imported wine market. |
| BRawk wrote: |
| Despite polpular Korean belief, like all Mujuang wine, it is not made in Korea only labeled in Korea. |
I think it depends on the wine. It says on the bottle where the wine originates from. The mosel reisling you described comes from Germany, and there's a nice Majuang merlot from Chile. However, there is a Majuang red made in Korea. Not surprisingly, it's really gross. |
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The_Eyeball_Kid
Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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| When will the FTA kick in? And will it make Korea a much more livable place for us foreign types? And more importantly, when is the EU FTA due to start? |
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Snowflake
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
Location: Seoul
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