Beverages · The pairing room
Start with the plate.
Name the dish's structure and the whole cellar answers — wine, sake, tea, coffee, beer or spirits on structural merit, never category habit. The move is always named; the reason is always written out.
Japanese Unohana: Okara and the Art of Using the Whole Soybean · as the Library describes it — mid weight · seasoned · a touch of sweetness · led by mushroom and brine · adjust this plate →
Bridge — shared noteCut — cleanseContrast — opposition
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Springbank 10 Year Old Campbeltown Single Malt
the dish's brine meets 'brine' in the glass; salt water on both sides.
Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.
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Blandy's Sercial Colheita Madeira
the dish's brine meets 'saline mineral' in the glass; salt water on both sides.
Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.
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Kiku-Masamune Kimoto Junmai
'dried mushroom' in the pour meets the dish's savour underneath; depth answering depth.
Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.
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Tsuki no Katsura Junmai Nigori
'rice porridge' in the pour meets the dish's savour underneath; depth answering depth.
Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.
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Kuro Kirishima Imo Jochu 25°
'black koji tartness' in the pour meets the dish's savour underneath; depth answering depth.
Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.
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Leitz Eins Zwei Zero Riesling
the dish's brine meets 'slate-mineral' in the glass; salt water on both sides.
Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.
Suggestions are structural, drawn from each pour's own recorded markers · back to your cellar