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Advance Tickets | KANPAI THAILAND 2025 at NIPPON HAKU BANGKOK

40 Breweries • 120 Bottles • One of Thailand’s Largest Sake Showcases One of Thailand’s largest Japanese sake experiences returns to QSNCC this year. Famous sake from across Japan will be in one place, from popular labels to rare and limited bottles. Event Overview Dates: August 29 (Fri) – 31 (Sun), 2025Venue: Queen Sirikit National […]

Bruno Paillard

The 40th anniversary of their Perpetual Reserve

We have the pleasure of sharing an unusual news with you, and to embark on this so complex, so fascinating world that is Champagne, of the mysterious alchemy of its elaboration. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Bruno PAILLARD independent and family-owned Champagne Maison! 1985–2025! Therefore, it is also the 40th anniversary of […]

FRENCH LIQUEUR & SPIRITS

“L’ENTÊTE” Absinthe Traditional

Once again, we have the pleasure, not to say the privilege, of presenting an atypical product from the COMBIER Distillery, which has perhaps never before made an appearance in Thailand. What is it all about? Absinthe. Absinthe is first and foremost a plant which is better known today as a spirit made from various plants […]

Perspectives

THE 3rd PUB BAR ASIA 2025

Bacchus Global will join this event. ■　LAODI 56k White Rhum-Mekong Cane Fields’ Spirit: Laos’s Potent, Crystal-Clean Rhum Agricole- LAODI “56K” White Rhum bursts from Savannakhet’s emerald cane fields. Organically grown on Laodi’s single-estate and hand-pressed at first dawn, the fresh juice is wild-fermented then copper-pot distilled, locking in the lush, grassy perfume of rhum agricole […]

Perspectives

N by Hidetoshi Nakata

THE GENESIS OF A VISION Following his retirement from his professional football (soccer) career, Hidetoshi Nakata spent seven years traveling throughout Japan’s forty-seven prefectures to learn more about Japanese culture and craftsmanship. Of all the traditions he encountered, sake brewing in particular captured his attention. “My goal: to bring Japan’s precious assets to the world […]

Perspectives

Sake That Smells Like Bananas? The Science Behind SMV −0.2

On May 28, 2025, the Hiroshima Industry Hall was heavy with early-summer humidity. The moment the doors opened, a sweet mix of banana, pear, and green-apple aromas swept through the room. This was the tasting session of the National New Sake Appraisal. Along the long stainless-steel tables stood 809 fresh labels, and about 500 brewers […]

FRENCH LIQUEUR & SPIRITS

Gin Pure Folie – The Strawberry Gin from Combier Distillery

Gin “Pure Folie” is another exclusive – and daring – creation from Distillery Combier. It embodies a veritable revolution in the world of French artisan gins. Distilled in limited series, in ‘Small Batches’ production in the distillery’s swan-neck stills to ensure superior quality, it stands out for its boldness and modernity. The secret of its […]

FRENCH LIQUEUR & SPIRITS

Pure folie – Liqueur et Gin

Here is yet another bold invention of this Master Distiller magician, an ode to strawberry in the form of a liquor of great elegance, combining character and vivacity. On its right bank, on the site of its former bed, which is now contained by a structure called “La Levée”, an earthen embankment, or dike, that […]

FRENCH LIQUEUR & SPIRITS

Elixir COMBIER

At the origin of the Combier Distillery, besides the famous orange liqueur, the “Triple Sec” which we introduced in a previous post, there is a second product: the “Elixir Combier”, a medicinal liqueur created twenty years later, in 1853, by the same talented creator and Master Distiller Jean-Baptiste Combier. “L’Elixir COMBIER,hygienic dessert liqueur” The story […]

FRENCH LIQUEUR & SPIRITS

COMBIER Original

In the presentation of this atypical distillery, nestled in the heart of the “Jardin de la France”, in Saumur, on the banks of the Loire, let’s start with the beginning, the creation, in 1834, of the emblematic product at the origin of the distillery, “L’Original Combier”, an orange liqueur invented in 1834 by Jean-Baptiste Combier […]

DAIYAME, SEKITOBA

The Birthplace of Triple Sec, 190 Years of Combier Distillery Magic

Bacchus Global TV Travel with us to Saumur in France’s Loire Valley and step inside Combier Distillery—the officially designated Living Heritage Company where the world’s first triple sec was born in 1834. Discover how engineers from Gustave Eiffel’s team helped design the still room, how absinthe was reborn after a century-long ban, and why Vodka […]

DAIYAME, SEKITOBA

Reinventing Shochu: Inside Daiyame & CHILL GREEN’s Flavor Revolution | Hamada Shuzo

Bacchus Global TV Discover how Hamada Shuzo from Kagoshima, Japan is shattering stereotypes about imo‑shochu. The smash‑hit brand Daiyame delivers an unexpected lychee aroma thanks to the brewery’s proprietary Kōjuku‑imo technique, making shochu approachable for beginners. Next‑generation label CHILL GREEN dives even deeper with two expressions—Spicy & Citrus featuring Taiwanese spice “maqaw,” and Bitter & Tropical infused […]