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Last night I arrived in Tokyo and headed out to Hibana (3F Third Halcyon, 3-6 Araki Cho, Shinyinku-ku, Tokyo 160-0007). It’s a relatively new natural wine bar run by Atsushi Nagashima, who was previously a sommelier at an Italian restaurant. We ate small plates and he served us a succession of Italian wines, all of which were lovely and compelling, and some of which demonstrated that natural wines don’t all have to be drunk young. It’s a small bar and very beautifully styled; certainly not a hipster joint. I really liked it.<\/p>\n
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Cerruti Rifol Frizzante NV Piedmont, Italy<\/strong> La Castellada Cru Bianca Reserva VRH 2006 Collio, Italy<\/strong> Giovanni Canonica Barbera d\u2019Alba 2015 Italy<\/strong> Massa Vecchia Alicante di Maremma Toscana 1999 Italy<\/strong> Cappellano Pi\u00e8 Rupestris Otin Fiorin 2000 Barolo, Italy<\/strong> Massa Vecchia Aleatico Passito 1999 Maremma, Tuscany, Italy<\/strong> Last night I arrived in Tokyo and headed out to Hibana (3F Third Halcyon, 3-6 Araki Cho, Shinyinku-ku, Tokyo 160-0007). It’s a relatively new natural wine bar run by Atsushi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,59],"tags":[405,377,383],"class_list":["post-20115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-natural-wine","tag-japan","tag-natural-wine","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20124,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115\/revisions\/20124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMoscato from Piedmont, made naturally. Very fresh and complex with apples, spice, salty lemon peel and delicate herbs. Nice spicy, tangy detail. Oxidative but really compelling. Has slightly elevated VA but it works. 93\/100<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4479-500x375.jpg\")
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\nDeep bronze in colour. 14.5% alcohol. Rich and smooth with seamless pear and peach fruit as well as nuts and spice. Lovely fine grained texture with hints and vanilla and fine spices. Amazing texture here: it\u2019s in a refined, mellow space. 94\/100<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4488-500x375.jpg\")
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\n15% alcohol. Very intense with fresh, sweet cherry, raspberry and plum fruit. Very fresh and pure with good acidity. It\u2019s very supple and hides its alcohol very well. Just lovely fruit intensity here with a bright character. Has some floral prettiness too. 94\/100<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4493-500x375.jpg\")
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\nComplex, savoury and spicy with citrus peel, herbs and tar, alongside sweet grainy blackberry fruit. Grippy and drying on the finish with lovely savoury maturity. Floral, fine herbs. Lovely elegance. 95\/100<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4497-500x350.jpg\")
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\nSpicy, tarry and dense with some spice and earth. Grippy and grainy with a savoury balsamic character. Lots of weight here with a grainy richness. Drying finish. A bold wine drinking well now, but also with delicacy. 94\/100<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4498-500x341.jpg\")
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\nVery complex, intense and spicy. Seeet and savoury at the same time with some lift and a green-tinged sweet berry fruits personality. Fine, detailed and lively with so much complexity. 95\/100<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4487-500x355.jpg\")
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