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

To'biholoch — Tamales of Achiote-Stewed Pork Wrapped in Corn Husks · as the Library describes it — mid weight · some richness · bright · led by pepper · adjust this plate →

Bridge — shared noteCut — cleanseContrast — opposition

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2023 Cabernet Franc Wine · Painted Rock Estate Winery · Naramata Bench the dish's pepper finds 'green pepper' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

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Ripple Rock Whisky · Shelter Point Distillery · Vancouver Island the dish's pepper finds 'pepper' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

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SOV Wheated Rye Whisky Whisky · Sons of Vancouver Distillery · Metro Vancouver the dish's pepper finds 'warm pepper' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

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Zweigelt Rosé 'Artist' Naramata Bench 2025 Wine · Roche Wines · Naramata Bench the dish's pepper finds 'peppery spice' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

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Tanna Noble Kava Borogu Traditional · Tanna Kava Growers Cooperative · Vanuatu — Kava the dish's pepper finds 'pepper' in the glass; a shared note, carried across. Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.

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Vanuatu Noble Kava Export — Nakamal Traditional · Nakamal at Home — Vanuatu Kava · Vanuatu — Kava the dish's pepper finds 'pepper' in the glass; a shared note, carried across. 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