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


 
 


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
Hana Kohaku - Well-balanced sweetness and pleasant acidity. Not like any other plum sake.
Plum Sake
300mL
$14
 
 
 
Momokawa Silver-Clean refreshing taste.
Ginjo
750mL
$28
   

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

 
   
Hakushika Junmai Ginjo-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
Sen-nen-ju - Great fragrance of fruity flavor, delicate sweetness rolls down the throat smoothly with a gentle body
Dai - Ginjo
$32
Jun-nama -Special type of Gen-syu (unprocessed sake) it is unpasteurized. Its yeast is still active         
Nama-Chozo
$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

Bottle(300mL)$14 
Bottle(720mL) $27

Momokawa- Pearl

 

Bottle(750mL)$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.

 
   
Ginza No Suzume - Barley
Glass- $6
Bottle $55
 
 
   
Hot Sake - Premium Sake served in a Ceramic Carafe  

Hakushika

$6.5

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
   

Frisk Riesling

$23

Montivina Terra d'Oro Rose, California

$7
$26

 

 
 
 

 

 
Chardonnay  
Cru Vin Dogs, "Bloodhound" '05 California
$8
$32
Kunde, Sonoma
$10
$40

Far Niente, Napa

$70

 

 

Sauvignon Blanc

   
Giesen, New Zealand

$9

$34

Cru Vin Dogs, "Greyhound" '08 New Zealand

$10
$38
 
Pinot Grigio/ Pinot Gris    
Brancott Pinot Grigio, Italy
$7
$26
Ca Montini, Italy
$32
Jermann, Italy
 
$55
 
Champagne
Mumm Napa Cuvee 187 mL  
$11
Pol Roger Brut, France  
$70
Laurent Perrier Rose, France  
$120
 
 
 
Red Wines
 
Interesting Reds
Glass
Bottle
Jacob's Creek Reserve Shiraz,  Australia
$8
$30
Folie a Deux Menage a Trois Red Blend, California  
$32
Monte Antico Rosso (Sangiovese), Italy
$8
$30
Graffigna Centenario Malbec             $8
$30
Ironstone Reserve Zinfandel

$12

$40

 
Pinot Noir
Concannon, California
$8
$30
Louis Latour, France
$32
Domaine Drouhin (half Bottle) Oregon
$40
Row Eleven,3 Vineyards,  California
$10
$38
 
Merlot
Wente, California
$8
$30
Marquis Phillips, Australia
$10
$38
 
 
Cabernet
Geyser Peak, Alexander Valley
$9
$34
Chappellet. Mountain Cuvee, Napa
$14
$45
D'Arenberg "High Trellis" Australia
$34
Heitz, Napa
$70
 
Japanese Wine
 
Plum Wine
Kinsen (garnished with a cherry)
$5.5
Choya (garnished with a plum)
$7
 
Beer List
 
Japanese Beer
Kirin Draft
$4
Kirin Ichiban 21oz Bottle
$6.5
Sapporo 21oz Bottle
$6.5
Asahi 21 oz Bottle
$6.5
 
Other Beers
Becks (Non alcohol)
$3
Bud Light
$3
Coors Light
$3
 
 
 
 
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
Blueberry Lemondrop
 
Japon2go     Japango Sushi Restaurant Boulder
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 4-9pm