Fukucho “Moon on the Water” Sake (Imported by Vine Connections, Sausalito, Calif.; about $18.50/300 ml, or $39/720 ml)
Here’s a quaff that will dispel the myths that sake is a rough and acrid drink. It lives up to its poetic name, the limpid liquid as clear and bright as moonlight reflected off a placid lake.
Served lightly chilled, its flavors are just as refined, as plush and smooth as satin, with soft notes of almond milk, pears and jasmine.
Whether its delicacy is due to the softness of the water in Hiroshima, where this is brewed, or to the hand of the brewer, Miho Imada, one of the very few female sake brewers in Japan, I don’t know, but we can ask her next week, when she comes to Denver (see schedule in the Food Calendar, above left).
