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Kubota Manju Junmai Daiginjo
Wine♡ Niigata, Japan · Gohyakumangoku rice (sake)
Niigata snow-country sake, crisp, clean and softly fragrant, it tastes of the book's landscape. Its quiet restraint matches the prose.
The Pour
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Egly-Ouriet Brut Tradition Grand Cru
Light red🇫🇷 Ambonnay, Champagne, France · Pinot Noir
Chalky, cool and fine-beaded, with a mournful depth beneath the sparkle. It is the glint of frost on a long night.
The Mood
A fleeting, doomed affair between a idle Tokyo dilettante and a hot-spring geisha unfolds in deep winter. Silence and snow say what the characters cannot.
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