Sake Reviews

   “He who controls the rice, controls the universe,” famously declared the big bad guy of Frank Herbert’s space opera tour de force, Dune. Wait, ...

   Established in 1897, Kikuisami Brewery is a stalwart of the sake world tucked away in the picturesque Sakata City of Yamagata Prefecture. In 19...

  Moments of discovering the unusual, the complex, the downright transformative, are precisely what make drinks and spirits appreciation so enjoya...

  While the brewery has a history that spans well over 150 years, it is perhaps best known outside Japan for its most recent ultra-premium sakes t...

  Alright, if there's one thing we thought couldn't be uprooted and transplanted, it's Japanese sake. After all, in its homeland, the rice wine we...

   If there's one product that we didn't think could relocate, it's Japanese sake. In fact, in its homeland, the Japanese rice wine that we know i...

  People are fond of making prestige comparisons. An artist may be described as “The Andy Warhol of Japan” (Takeshi Murakami), or a director “The ...

  Tucked within the Yamagata Prefecture lies the Tatenokawa Brewery which was founded in 1832. Unlike most breweries which produce a range of styl...

  There's no sugarcoating this: Terada Honke's Musubi is a sake that you'd either love or hate. This deemed the most extreme expression from Terad...

  Hailing from Hyogo Prefecture, Kiku-Masamune is one of the most well-known sake breweries in Japan, and is also one of the oldest, being founded...

    Niigata prefecture stands out as one of Japan's foremost sake producing regions. It’s said that the region's mountainous terrain, graced with ...