{"id":9303,"date":"2009-12-07T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-dip-into-your-favourite-tipple-2\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T09:45:00","slug":"struth-dip-into-your-favourite-tipple-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/12\/struth-dip-into-your-favourite-tipple-2\/","title":{"rendered":"STRUTH &#8211; Dip into your favourite tipple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SzM4Ro3RO7I\/AAAAAAAAHvY\/47H5SssG2cM\/s1600-h\/Japan+Beaujolais+bathing+at+Hakone+Kowakien+Yunessun-742778.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SzM4Ro3RO7I\/AAAAAAAAHvY\/47H5SssG2cM\/s320\/Japan+Beaujolais+bathing+at+Hakone+Kowakien+Yunessun-742778.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STRUTH !<\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says the French take their winemaking seriously, and the annual release of the famous Beaujolais Nouveau at midnight on the third Thursday of every November \u2013 while a fun event across the nation \u2013 is\u00a0 still considered a very serious matter amongst connoisseurs.<\/p>\n<p>So they were probably mortified to hear what the folk at a resort in Japan did last month with their beloved 2009 vintage of this great wine: they poured a container load into a Jaccuzi and, sacre bleu, heated it up\u2026 so guests could go for a swim in it.<\/p>\n<p>The Hakone Kowakien Yunessun in Central Japan is one of the country&#8217;s more unusual spa resorts, and as well as bathing in the waters of its hot springs, also offers such weird options as taking frolics in that warm Beaujolais Nouveau, and hot green tea, sake and coffee.<\/p>\n<p>And thankfully, during last month&#8217;s antics management kept enough of the Beaujolais Nouveau aside for guests to partake of in a normal fashion \u2013 from \u00a0a glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says the French take their winemaking seriously, and the annual release of the famous Beaujolais Nouveau at midnight on the third Thursday of every November \u2013 while a fun event across the nation \u2013 is\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-9303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}