For our Sunday night, we hit Japonais, the Mirage’s Japanese restaurant. Mick and Amy picked this as their choice and to be perfectly honest I wasn’t excited about going. I found by the end of the night I was eating my words as it was awesome; the food and wine were both terrific. We started with Sushi, then some appetizers from the main kitchen and then more appetizers but from the smoke/fire grill and then an order of ribs and we finished up with dessert.
For the Sushi, we decided to go with some Champagne to start and pick a Perrier-Jouet Grand Brut Champagne. This wine was amazing with the Sushi and we still had some left when the first appetizer showed up. The first appetizer was a thin sliced strip steak in a ginger/soy marinade that you cooked yourself on a super-heated rock which was brought to the table. I figure the ginger/soy combo would mess up the Champagne pairing but was stunned to find that it wasn’t just a good pairing it was an even better pairing than the Sushi one. The bottle was getting low at this point and we still had more food coming. We kicked around different wines on the list briefly but in the end decided to go with another bottle of the same Champagne. It handled the sweet and sour Calamari wonderfully, slammed the Crab Cakes, was stellar with the smoke/fire grilled Sea Bass, Spicy Sliders and even worked with the ribs.
The absolute worst it ever got in a pairing was good and I was beginning to believe there was nothing this wine wouldn’t be awesome with. I wasn’t the only one that loved it as the first thing Amy did when we got back was looked on the LCBO website to see if they carried it as she wanted more and sent me a link -
PERRIER JOUET GRAND BRUT CHAMPAGNE
LCBO 155341
750 mL bottle
Price: $ 64.95
Wine, Champagne
12.0% Alcohol/Vol.
Sugar Content : 1
Made in: Champagne, France
By: S.A. Champagne Perrier Jouet
I ordered 3 bottles today (Mick and Amy are taking 1 of the 3). We didn’t review it in the restaurant but if we did, I would be shocked if the overall group rating wouldn’t have been 90+.
That night at Japonias was great, as was the whole trip and I’m already wanting to go back to Vegas and I have only been home a day.
Cheers!
Mark
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