Wine Menu


Sake Menu

Our Best Selection in Sakes (served room temperature)
 
 
Masu Box
Bottle (1800mL)
Suishin -(Elegant, modern tasting)    
$11
$97
Karatanba - (Super dry and gentle)
$9
$77

Kurosawa - (Dry but rounded taste)           
$8
$70
Hatsumago - (Smooth texture, clean finish)      
$10
$88
Wakatake - (Rich mellow taste)
$17
$150
Momokawa - Silver (Clean & refreshing) served Chilled                  

$7
$28 (750mL)


For your special occasion or your strong individuality!
           
Moriko -Light and delicate sweetness and acidity. Refreshing Mint Flavor                       
Dai-ginjo
500ml
$68
Mu - Rich and gentle taste expand in the palate. Rich texture      
Ginjo
720mL
$58
Umekanon - Well-balanced sweetness and pleasant acidity. Not like any other plum sake.
Other plum wine
500mL
$65
Poochi Poochi - Pleasant sweetness and acidity.
Sparkling Sake
330mL
$25
Momokawa -Gentle taste with fresh fruity flavor.
Diamond
750mL
$30
   

For Yourself - This series all 300mL size, perfect for your night

 
   
Hakushika -The most popular sake in Japan, very smooth with a suppressed sweetness
Junmai Ginjo       
$12
Yamadanishiki -Refreshing clean and gentle taste, elegant and crisp flavor
Junmai Syu          
$14
Snow Beauty -Rough Filtered Sake which we call ‘nigori’ has pure original rice flavor with mellow end
Nigori Sake
$14
Sen-nen-ju - Great fragrance of fruity flavor, delicate sweetness rolls down the throat smoothly with a gentle body
Dia - Ginjo
$38
Jun-nama -Special type of Gen-syu (unprocessed sake) it is unpasteurized. Its yeast is still active         
Namacyozo
$12
 

Milky White Sake

Sake that is milky white, since the mash is only lightly filtered using a coarse-textured cloth. If the sake is unpasteurized, the yeast and enzymes are alive and still fermenting.

 
   

Hakushika-Snow Beauty

Carafe(360mL)$14 
Bottle $27

Momokawa- Pearl

Carafe (360mL) $15

Bottle $29

   

Shochu (soju) Japanese Vodka

 

Shochu is an alcoholic beverage of Japan, most commonly distilled from barley, sweet potato or rice. Typically it is 25% alcohol by volume, making it weaker than whisky, but stronger than wine and sake.

 
   
Litomo - Barley
Glass- $6
Bottle $55
Nakanakanai - Rice
Glass- $9
Bottle $70
   
Hot Sake - Premium Sake served in a Ceramic Carafe  
   

Hakushika

$6

Purple Haze (Made with Chambord: Raspberry Liquor)

$9
Sakura Sake (Made with Plum Wine)
$8
Kimoto Dragon (Made with Grand Marnier)
$10

 

 
Brief Introduction to types of SAKE  
   
Junmai Daiginjo-shu
 
A subclass of junmai ginjo-shu, brewed with very highly polished rice (to at least 50%** see below) and even more precise and labor intensive methods. The pinnacle of the brewers' art. Generally light, complex and fragrant.
 

Daiginjo-shu

 
A subclass of ginjo-shu below, brewed with very highly polished rice (to at least 50%** see below) and even more precise and labor intensive methods. The pinnacle of the brewers' art. Generally light, complex and quite fragrant.
 
Junmai Ginjo-shu   
 
Brewed with labor-intensive steps, eschewing machinery for traditional tools and methods, using highly polished rice (at least 60%**) and fermented at colder temperatures for longer periods of time. Light, fruity, refined.
 

Ginjo-shu

 
Brewed with labor-intensive steps, eschewing machinery for traditional tools and methods, using highly polished rice (at least 60%**) and fermented at colder temperatures for longer periods of time. Light, aromatic, fruity,  and refined.
 
Junmai-shu
 
Made with only rice, water and koji mold. The rice used must be polished to at least 70%**. Often a full and solid flavor profile, clean and well structured.
 
Note also Tokubetsu Junmai-shu, or "Special Junmai-shu," which merely indicates more highly polished rice, or the use of very special sake rice.
 

Honjozo-shu

 

Made with rice, water, koji and a very small amount of pure distilled alcohol ("brewers' alcohol") to help extract flavor and aroma. Light, mildly fragrant, easy to drink.

 
Note also Tokubetsu Honjozo-shu or "Special Honjozo-shu," which merely indicates more highly polished rice, or the use of very special sake rice.
 
 
Whites Wines
 

 

 
Interesting Whites
Glass
Bottle
   

Wente Riesling, Livermoore

$28

Montivina White Zinfandel, California

$5
$18

Pierre Sparr Riesling, Alsace

$6
$23
Conundrum (Half Bottle), California
$19

 

 
Chardonnay  
Camelot, California
$6
$23
Clos Du Bois, California
$8
$32
Kunde, Sonoma
$10
$40

Far Niente, Napa

$70

 

 

Sauvignon Blanc

   

Jindalee, South Australia

$5.50
$20

Camelot, California

$6
$23

Giesen, New Zealand

$36
 
Pinot Grigio/ Pinot Gris    
Montevina, California
$6.50
$24
Au Bon Climat Pinot Blanc, Santa Barbara
$9
$36
Ca Montini, Italy
$32
Loredona, Monterey
$7
$26
 
Champagne
Pommery POP 187 mL  
$14
Pol Roger Brut, France  
$70
Laurent Perrier Rose, France  
$120
Laurent Perrier Grand Siècle, France  
$150
 
Red Wines
 
Interesting Reds
Glass
Bottle
Reynolds Shiraz, South East Australia
$7
$27
Folie a Deux Menage a Trois Red Blend, California  
$32
Monte Antico Rosso (Sangiovese), Italy
$8
$28
Sebastiani Zinfandel, Sonoma  
$32
 
Pinot Noir
Concannon, California
$8
$32
Louis Latour, France
$40
Domaine Drouhin (half Bottle) Oregon
$40
Summerland, Santa Barbara
$10
$40
 
Merlot
Camelot, California
$6
$23
Raymond Reserve, California
$32
Chateau Julien, California
$7
$28
Clos Du Bois, Alexander Valley
$38
 
Cabernet
Camelot, California
$6
$23
Trinchero “Main Street”, Napa
$34
Geyser Peak, Alexander Valley
$8
$32
D’Arenberg “High Trellis”, Australia
$34
Heitz, Napa
$70
 
Japanese Wine
 
Plum Wine
Kinsen (garnished with a cherry)
$5.50
Choya (garnished with a plum)
$7
 
Beer List
 
Japanese Beer
Kirin Draft
$3
Kirin Ichiban 21oz Bottle
$6.50
Sapporo 21oz Bottle
$6.50
Asahi 21 oz Bottle
$6.50
 
Other Beers
Bud
$3
Bud Light
$3
Coors Light
$3
Heineken
$4
Becks (Non alcoholic)
$3
Miller Lite
$2
 
Japon has a full bar so be sure to ask for your favorite cocktails!
Here are a few of our most popular Cocktails
 
Japon Saketini
Classic Appletini
Classic Cosmo
French Martini
Mudslide Martini
Chambord Truffle
Wokka Saketini
 
Japon2go     Japango     Delivery Service
1028 S. Gaylord St. Denver, CO 80209     303-744-0330
lunch hours: mon-fri 11:30-3pm, sat 12-3pm, closed sun.
dinner hours: mon-thurs. 4-10pm, fri-sat 4-11:30pm, sun 5-10pm