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Tag Archives: Tongba
Review of the Year 2022
I shall tell you my Wines of the Year in my next article, following last year’s popular format of twelve wines, one from each month. First, here, I’ll list the dozen most popular articles of the year on wideworldofwine. A … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Natural Wine, Review of the Year, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Books, Wine Festivals, Wine Merchants, Wine Science, Wine Tastings, Wine Writing
Tagged Autentikfest Moravia 2022, Ayscough The World of Natural Wine, Breaky Bottom, Dallimore The Vineyards of Britain, Goode Regenerative Viticulture, Gut Oggau, Most Read Articles on Wideworldofwine 2022, Review of the Year 2022, Tastings of the Year, Tongba, Tutto Wines, Wine Books of the Year
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Extreme Viticulture in Nepal
It lives! After my last article in early October I’ve been travelling. The result will be a host of articles from Australia, though I hope that, by-and-large avoiding the obvious, I won’t be substantially repeating what others have written as … Continue reading
Posted in Nepal, Wine, Wine Travel
Tagged Ashish White Blend, Charikot Panorama Resort, Extreme Wine Tourism, Heida in Nepal!, Janapal Thapa, Joseph-Marie Chanton, Kathmandu Wine Excursion, Kaule Red, Kumar Karki, Nepal's Vineyard, Nepalese Wine, Pataleban Vineyard, Pataleban Vineyard Resort, Solaris Grape, Tongba, Tropical Viticulture Consultants, Vitis Coignetiae, Wine's Outer Reaches, Wolfgang Schäfer (TVC), Yama Budou, Yama Sauvignon
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Tongba, A Study of Emptiness
Tongba (also variously spelt Tongpa, or तोङवा in Nepali, and roughly translating as “emptiness”) is the drink of the Limbu people of Eastern Nepal, but despite some vigorous arguments on the Web, it is also commonly known as Tibetan Hot Beer. Whatever its … Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Nepal
Tagged तोङवा, Limbu, Millet Beer, Nepal, Tibetan Hot Beer, Tongba, Tongpa
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