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.

Seared scallops, vanilla nage, shiso tempura Spanish paella Pacific Northwest clam chowder

Hot Maize Porridge with Toasted Ground Squash Seeds · as the Library describes it — mid weight · well salted · sweet · led by vanilla, smoke and toast · a morning plate · adjust this plate →

Bridge — shared noteCut — cleanseContrast — opposition

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Americano — Bensa Bore Honey Process Sidama Coffee, as served the dish's toast finds 'toasted grain' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

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Matcha Tea, as served the dish's sweetness answers 'sweet grass' without either tipping over.

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Loxton Moscato Rosé Non-alcoholic · Loxton the dish's sweetness answers gentle sweetness without either tipping over. Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.

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Genmaicha Tea, as served the dish's toast finds 'toasted rice' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

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Lustau Los Arcos Dry Amontillado Fortified wine · Bodegas Lustau · Jerez DO deep umami in the pour meets the dish's savour underneath; depth answering depth. After the morning pours, where the service allows.

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Tsuki no Katsura Junmai Nigori Sake · Masuda Tokubee Shoten · Fushimi 'rice porridge' in the pour meets the dish's savour underneath; depth answering depth. After the morning pours, where the service allows. 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