1 post tagged “sake”
As I grow older - I hope not to get jaded in the been there, done that way. Travel, live music, and new foods and drinks - it's still a thrill to find unfamiliar things that I like.
The good thing about facing middle age is that we have friends who have non-overlapping, complimentary experiences to share - so we learn from them. Three friends - two new, one old - have re-introduced me to sake recently.
My first foray into the new sake tasting world was in Santa Fe. We had sushi tapas and a big bottle of sake to accompany a really long discussion of changes in our lives. I kept stopping the conversation and asking, what is this sake again - this is really good. Unfortunately that brand is lost in my increasingly forgetful memory and embarrassing lack of Japanese language skills.
More recently a sommelier friend of ours introduced us to sparkling sake - his wife calls it Hello Kitty sake - so I'm forever cursed with not knowing its proper name either. But since we now have a couple bottles in our possesion thanks to the WineSellar in Sorrento Mesa - I can report it is Ho Ho Shu. It's a very happy replacement for champagne (I don't like champagne very much).
Most recently an old friend ordered Dewazakura ‘Daiginjo’ to accompany a really high-end, adventurous sushi feast in San Jose that featured things like fuzzy shiso salad and monkfish liver (both excellent and surprising). He says, "Dewazakura is in Yamagata and makes a line of very good sakes. I had originally asked for Toranoko, which is almost as good but about half the price; also worth looking for." Will do.
