I received an email recently from Wetlands Sake, reminding me that there is a sake brewery in New Orleans. Moreover, they’re using a short grain rice developed by the LSU Agriculture Center that is being grown just for them. The brewery comes from the minds of two New Orleans-natives: Nan Wallis and Lindsey Brower.
I don’t know what I expected when I first tasted the sparkling blood orange sake that Wetlands is canning in-house, but I liked it and I say that as a person who does not normally like “flavors” in my wine/beer/liquors. The worst thing I have consumed in the last decade was a “king cake” flavored vodka and I will fight anyone who says that stuff is even