Bellett Sake

[JT191]

I almost put this in the General forum, but it's from Japan, and the little forum description says "Jap nostalgia only!".

This was a gift from a friend, I think it was a door prize or intended for a game of janken (rock-paper-scissors), and was diverted to a goodie bag for me.

It is a custom label bottle of sake from Nukata, with a 1971 Bellett 1800 GT on the label. In the US, you can have wine bottles made with a custom label, whatever you want to put on them, as a special gift or for corporate promotion. But these are only available with western grape wine. In Japan, they can do the same thing with Sake. And this was apparently a pretty good grade of sake. It was sacrificed for New Years a few years ago, and still tasted better than the domestic cooking wine grade sake, despite being a couple years past its expected six month life span.

I finally got the address deciphered from the label, and this guy is now on my Christmas card list.

[KJB]

Great story and an exceptional bit of "Bellettautomemorabilia".We all expect to see it on display at Coona next year.
KB