LIQUID ROADBOOK Japan

Thierry Daniel and Eric Fossard, who founded the Cocktails Spirits trade show and Paris Cocktail Week, are offering a self-edited roadbook around Japan, on the liquid side.
They have long cultivated a passion for Japan, the guest of honour of the 2020 edition of Cocktails Spirits -which of course did not take place- and for the occasion spent a few weeks there, in order to get to know the local traditional brandies, aka 'shochu' (literally 'water of life' in Japanese). With them, the truculent Jean-Bernard Magescas and the photographer Philippe Levy and a hell of a tour of the grand dukes.
The result is a fascinating book-mag that explores a little-known facet of Japan: that of shochu (and apple juice!), through the prism of the encounters they had.