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Dassai 23 Junmai Daiginjo
Wine♡ Yamaguchi, Japan · Yamada Nishiki rice sake
Polished to an almost surgical purity, with a cool, silky precision. It matches Mishima's prose, beautiful and without mercy.
The Pour
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M. Chapoutier Crozes-Hermitage Les Meysonniers
Full-bodied red🇫🇷 Rhone Valley, France · Syrah
Dark, smoky Syrah with black olive and a salty, iron edge. It carries the harbour air of Yokohama and the cold, ritual intensity of the boys' secret gang.
The Mood
A widow's romance with a sailor is watched by her son and his chilling gang of boys. Exquisite, clinical and quietly horrifying.
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