Toyota, Aichi Prefecture ¨C When Daisuke Suzaki visited one of the legends of Japan¡¯s wine world, Akihito Kido, with an impassioned appeal for help with his winemaking dreams, he was initially greeted with bafflement.
A winery in Toyota? Home to the headquarters of Japan¡¯s biggest automaker ¡ª adjacent to Nagoya, the nation¡¯s fourth-biggest city?
As a fellow native son of Toyota, Kido (of the eponymous in Nagano) was sympathetic to Suzaki¡¯s ambitions. But with firsthand knowledge of the scorching heat that afflicts the city, he also thought his visitor ¡°a little odd.¡±
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