Suddenly there was one place in America that really got sake, that could explain it, that offered sake pairings with meals, made specialty sake cocktails, and in short, treated sake the same way other good restaurants treat grape-based wines.

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The red wines from the Beaujolais region are made from the Gamay grape, particularly well-suited to the granite-based soils of the area.

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