Comments on: My blue heaven http://youmadam.com/2008/02/09/my-light-blue-heaven/ It must be time for a meal to be served... Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:18:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: McAlpine http://youmadam.com/2008/02/09/my-light-blue-heaven/#comment-592 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:01:33 +0000 http://contemplationrose.wordpress.com/?p=260#comment-592 Okay. If you haven’t already seen the post, it’s up there.
“Blue Heaven.”

]]> By: McAlpine http://youmadam.com/2008/02/09/my-light-blue-heaven/#comment-589 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:27:26 +0000 http://contemplationrose.wordpress.com/?p=260#comment-589 I am doing a write-up on this sake over on my blog and would like to link to your site on this post. I am drinking the blue label version which uses Yamadabo rice, and not the Yamada Nishiki version. Many of the same flavor profiles are there that you mentioned.

Madam says: Link away…

]]> By: Patricia in Tokyo http://youmadam.com/2008/02/09/my-light-blue-heaven/#comment-494 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:40:35 +0000 http://contemplationrose.wordpress.com/?p=260#comment-494 I’m taking off the Mukune International Sake Brewing Program in Osaka this Sunday morning! Yeehaah! I’ll stop by Fujioka-san and hope he is in the shop. Turns out our group of interns (this group is sake gaijin who live in Japan, so should be a key group) will be visiting Fushimi on Thursday and we’ll have a bit of time. Hoping I can take them all by his place. Haven’t seen him since 2002, so really looking forward to this.

It just kills me that he is steadily making this 3rd generation sake by himself, literally in the shadows of the giants Gekkeikan and Takara/Shochikubai.

WELL, I’m about to be a sake intern and work for a week in the shuzo. Beside myself with hearty glee…

]]> By: Amy http://youmadam.com/2008/02/09/my-light-blue-heaven/#comment-139 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:42:26 +0000 http://contemplationrose.wordpress.com/?p=260#comment-139 Cool, I was wondering about finding them around Yokosuka. I’m not much of a snob about such things, but will look forward to exploring in search of some fun ones. Glad you had a great Aussie trip!

Madam says: If I’m still in Japan when you arrive, please let me know (see “contact me” page).

]]> By: Jon http://youmadam.com/2008/02/09/my-light-blue-heaven/#comment-134 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:37:23 +0000 http://contemplationrose.wordpress.com/?p=260#comment-134 Do you know what happened to the Sendai-shi blog of historic photos by Abraham Lincoln? It is no longer there.

Madam says: Hi Jon, I’ll email him and see what happened. Bummer.

]]> By: Amy http://youmadam.com/2008/02/09/my-light-blue-heaven/#comment-131 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:24:19 +0000 http://contemplationrose.wordpress.com/?p=260#comment-131 Ah, of course sake tastes different depending on the glass – why haven’t I thought of that?! (Although looking around I have 4 sets of wine glasses in my California house!) I have lots to learn about such things. Do you have a recommendation for a fun shop to buy ochoko and tokkuri around there?

Madam says: Around Yokosuka? I pick up ochoko as I travel everywhere around Japan. What I learned on the John Gauntner sake training is white wine glasses work well for daiginjos, the really fruity ones with fine noses. But John stressed that sake should be enjoyed in whatever you have at hand, that one need not have the perfect glass. After all, some of my favorite wine experiences were in Italy, drinking local plonk out of a short tumbler.

]]> By: fightingwindmills http://youmadam.com/2008/02/09/my-light-blue-heaven/#comment-122 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:47:11 +0000 http://contemplationrose.wordpress.com/?p=260#comment-122 That first photo is marvelous! The textures and how they interact with each other are amazing. The texture of the label, the texture of the glass bottle’s inside bottom as seen from the outside, it even looks like the blue ink has a puffy texture. :) Great job with the photos and this post! (I personally haven’t learned to “appreciate” sake at all.)

Madam says: Domo re: the photo, and be sure to try some really good sake, premium stuff and tell me what you think.

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