BacchusNY
Here is a bottle to accompany this evening. I wonder if it would go well with grilled kama-yaki (straw fish cakes). When the bottle is opened, it has a wonderful aroma of fresh pears. When you put it in your mouth, you can feel a strong fizz on your lips and the tip of your tongue. In the clear dry taste, there is sweetness and rice flavor, and a weak bitterness rounds out the overall balance. As the name suggests, it is best on a hot day! Because of the strong fizziness, I tried a glass of champagne, but it might kill the goodness of the sake because it increases the clean dryness and the bitterness is also stronger.
Fried green beans with salt and pepper. I love this. The sake gets sweeter and the sharpness of the sake makes the oil flow and I can't get enough of it! There's no reason why sardine ball sandwiched between home-grown shiso and grilled can't go with it, too. Sake, I can't stop. The kama-yaki (grilled fish balls) will enhance the flavor of the rice and turn it into a slightly heavier sake. This is also good. Crunchy ume plum pickled with salt. Salty and sour taste enhances sake. It might be the best match for sake.
Tonight, too, the night goes by with wonderful sake.
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