It’s a very strange drink, didn’t dislike it but not sure if I’d be in a hurry to have it again.
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The top sakes are fantastic - they are actually quite dark in colour
My brother and I went to a great sake bar in Tokyo , started with the basic range and ended up at the top end sakes
Absolutely stunning
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In a new-turn for me*, I was asked to write an obituary.
So I did.
*At least he was quite a bit older than me.
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Just back from a Sales team meeting - some of the wines we tasted last night - that’s what happens when you get 10 wine guys in the same room
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I have finally succumbed and have been to Asda, thrice in a fortnight. Twice yesterday.
Quite how I managed to spend £340 there yesterday is baffling. Admittedly £140 or so of that was on some cheapish but functional garden furniture.
For £8, this Primitivo tastes fantastic:
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A bit of a mixture, went the local markets this morning and decided to help the local producers. The wine is from vineyard about 20ks away the rest in made just off the valley. Looking forward to trying the gin.
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This 2020 Fleurie is excellent. The campsite organises tastings with local winemakers and last night it was Loïc Marion, whose vines are about 1km from the campsite. A lovely man and a very lovely wine, even from our plastic camping glasses.
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No way
My local wine shop recommended a plum one as an alternative to a dessert wine one Christmas. Interesting.
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Just got back from our annual family music festival. Kids retired for the evening and our tipple is a Laroche Chablis, 2001 and for me a new one, Gran Passione, Rossi, 2020.
It must be good, it has string tied around its neck.
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Sake is wonderful @Pete_the_painter - I’ve conducted a lot of business over this magical elixir.
Once had a group of Japanese businessmen send over a bottle to us in a restaurant in the main Tokyo railway station (Shinjuku?), for no apparent reason other than we were the only western folk there trying the local food, with no one able to translate - it was delicious.
But can be dangerous. The Chinese can be very hospitable; one host ordered some aged rice wine, which is similar. It came out decanted as a muddy looking liquid. Too polite to decline, I had a head spitting experience soon after. Anyhow, enjoy.
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I love Sake, shame it isn’t more widely available in the UK. We have a Japanese restaurant not too far away which used to have a good selection - must try them again soon.
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We went to a Wedding in Tokyo and the evening before we went to a local bar where the barman gave us both little Sake cups with round bottoms so that you can not put it down, hence one must be constantly drinking, that was the quirky idea. The barman found it very amusing.
The other quirky Japanese Saki bar joke is when the barman provides a little saucer to go with your Sake cup, they fill the cup until it overflows into your saucer, at which point you must drink the saucer Sake too, so the measure is always more, hence you get drunk quicker.
Perhaps just for foreigners.
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Absolutely. There’s a sophisticated culture behind sake, as with wine, whisky etc. Would love to find out more about it.
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When I was a student in London, I shared a house with a young Japanese girl who was studying for a year in the UK, she was very into Mark Bolan/TRex, Camden Market and Whisky.
She used to tell us storeys about how her dad was very Conservative, being a Policeman and all, and she was in London to let her hair down and live a little.
When she left to go back to Japan, she left the records she bought, trendy cool clothes and a couple of litres of Sake, which I presume she bought from a specialist Japanese shop as the text on the carton was all in Japanese.
Between three of us, we drank an entire litre of Sake whilst listening to T Rex, suffice to say, I had the worst hangover I have ever had. A headache that can only be described as a poor man’s migraine.
Not very sophisticated.
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get it on!
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Yes, sad but true. Thankfully I can honestly tell you I have no idea what it tasted like as I refused to drink it.
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Friends over for dinner tonight. We had:
Chapel Down ‘3 Graces’ 2016
Kit’s Coty Bacchus 2018 ( with bbq scallops wrapped in Parma ham)
Gonon St Joseph 2011 and Bastides d’Alquier 2011 Faugeres ( with bbq rack of lamb)
Doisy Daene 2005 Sauternes ( with gooseberry fool)
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