HOW DO YOU SAY 'SKOL!' IN JAPANESE?

We also heard from Oregon-based SakéOne, brewers of fine Japanese rice wine, who are marketing special holiday gift packs of their well-known beverage. While we don’t usually think “The Holidays” and “Saké” at the same time, the company is trying to make converts out of shoppers looking for a different gift. They’ve got sampler sets in three- and four-pack iterations available at their Web site, Sake One.com. We’d welcome it as a gift; we only had saké once, at one of those restaurants where you sit on a mat on the floor. At meal’s end (which included three bottles of you-know-what), we couldn’t stand. Good times. Good times.