Paul wrote on Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:41:56 -0400:
PA> On 2007-09-05, sf <sf> wrote:
??>> On 5 Sep 2007 02:52:41 GMT, [email hidden] (Hunt) wrote:
??>>
??>>> I like the Groth Napa, which is readily available and at
??>>> not too high a price-point.
??>>
??>> Haven't heard of that winery. It sells for $18 a bottle
??>> on their web site, so it sells for at least double in
??>> restaurants. "Sushi" isn't a meal where I spend a lot of
??>> money on wine.
??>>>
??>>> I'd also quickly consider a Brut Rosé.
??>>>
??>> Brute Rosé? You mean Iron Horse?
PA> Brut Rosé is a category which includes multiple wines which
PA> vary in price. Iron Horse does indeed produce one, as do
PA> Roederer and Fleury and many others.
??>> No thanks. Sushi is supposed to be an inexpensive meal.
PA> Says who?
I wouldn't dream of drinking expensive wines or even expensive
sakes with sushi but a sushi meal's price can exceed $50 in very
good places. I haven't been there but isn't Nobu in New York an
example? Around here, the Zagat guide lists several sushi places
with meal prices in excess of $40 and one at $65. For myself, I
drink beer, especially dry Japanese ones but I am told that many
Japanese don't drink much besides tea with sushi. As for sakes,
I like good, cold sake *before* eating sushi.
Sushi *was* an inexpensive snack finger food eaten from street
stands in Tokyo and the only drink was tea and fingers were
often rinsed in the tea after eating! Sushi moved indoors and
upscale in the 1950s.
James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
