So over the years we have done our due diligence by researching a full range of supermarket variety table wines with sushi - always with the levity of the taste of sushi itself - and have been amazed by the number of surprising matches. It may seem decadent to drink a $150 bottle of creamy, yeast-infused Dom Pérignon with your hamachi, maguro (tuna) or Hawaiian rolls, but what a way to go.īut, of course, for everyday drinking, sparkling wines may not be as practical or desirable as regular tables wines especially if it normally takes you a few days to go through a bottle. Like beer, sparkling wines are cold and tactilely stimulating, and their steely, yeasty notes energize the mildly sweet, winey, rice-vinegar tastes of sushi rice. The combination may not be common or traditional, but it makes a lot of sense. Over the years we have taken to drinking Champagne or other dry sparkling wines with sushi. But what else? In Japan, beer and sushi has become just as much of a natural the combination of frothy, mildly bitter drafts and those wasabi-tinged pillows of pleasure can attack you like a naughty dream in the middle of the night. Green tea, with its mildly earthy, umami laced taste, is Japan’s a priori match for sushi. So what should a wine lover drink with sushi? Japanese-inspired cuisine fulfills our craving for the exotic, but the food is more refreshing, light, simple yet just as sophisticated as, say, the cuisines of China. Sushi bars are the Chinese restaurants of twenty, thirty years ago.
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