{"id":76729,"date":"2009-01-01T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com?post_type=feature&#038;p=8553"},"modified":"2017-06-13T12:34:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T03:34:41","slug":"eugenio-claudio-velitti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/eugenio-claudio-velitti\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugenio &#038; Claudio Velitti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"fn121 gekkan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7012\/6502850169_323c4930d4_z.jpg?resize=480%2C640\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult,&#8221; says Claudio Velitti, when we ask if he can recommend a good wine for sushi. &#8220;Wine is very personal, it must always be about passion&#8221;. Between them wine merchant brothers Velitti &amp; Velitti have over thirty years of experience bringing Italian aesthetics to Asia and Oceania, and now they aim to inject a bit of Italian style and passion into the Japanese taste for the finer things. But will European wine always remain a luxury item in Japan? &#8220;The lifestyle of many Japanese people is changing&#8221; says Eugenio &#8220;Now when people build new house these are large places, with proper kitchens for entertaining Italian style!&#8221; The Velitti brothers hope to fill this new space with their unique style and a taste for the finer things. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2velitti.com\">www.2velitti.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Japan: 11 years<br \/>\nHometown: Rome, Italy<br \/>\nIdentity: Wine merchants\/Lifestyle consultants<\/p>\n<p><strong>Originally published in Fukuoka Now magazine (<a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/fukuokanow\/docs\/fn121\" target=\"_blank\">fn121, Jan. 2009<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between them wine merchant brothers Velitti &#038; Velitti have over thirty years of experience bringing Italian aesthetics to Asia and Oceania, and now they aim to inject a bit of Italian style and passion into the Japanese taste for the finer things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"8553","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","location-fukuoka-city","en-US"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/fn121-gekkan-gaijin.jpg?fit=960%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98444,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76729\/revisions\/98444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}