Granité of Japanese Plum Wine

Inspired by an Italian sorbet, popularized in Paris in the nineteenth century, this dessert is half-frozen with a granular texture.

Japanese plum wine is usually made at home from unripe green fruit sweetened with sugar and then fermented with rice wine. Fortunately, it can be purchased, ready-bottled, from many oriental supermarkets.

You can make this dessert without an expensive ice-cream machine, and although the scientific basis is unclear, all who try it agree that it a