Blind Tasting Tip: The Japanese Furoshiki Wrapping Method

If you have wrapped wine bottles before, you are probably aware of how complex and sometimes messy the process can be. First of all, you would need enough paper (either tissue paper or wrapping paper) to cover the entire shape of the bottle. Then you need to tie it closed with a ribbon on top, or even tape — in which the result is not that elegant-looking. And what do you do with the wrapping paper afterwards? You just throw it away, which is wasteful. All that hard work for nothing. Here is a better way to wrap your wine bottles, whether to present as gifts or even to just hide the bottles for blind tasting: the Japanese Furoshiki method. Furoshiki is a combination of two Japanese words “furo” = “bath”, and “shiki” = “to spread”. It derives from the Edo, or Tokugawa, period practice where people bundled their clothes while at public bathhouses (or public furo) as to not confuse their belongings with someone else’s. The practice was later used for transporting wares and decorating gifts. <a href="https://medium.com/@cellar.asia/blind-tasting-tip-the-japanese-furoshiki-wrapping-method-491a08f0be7c">Read More</a>