Sake Reviews

  Where traditional Sake has been brewed for over 2,000 years - Ginjo Sake as we know it, dates back to the early 1900's - craft Sake has really o...

  In a city built on reinvention, there’s pleasure in discovering a new thing behind a door that looks like it belongs to something else. Not a ve...

  When Hirai Yuki [ヒライユウキ] was about to graduate from the Meiji University's School of Commerce, he had one final assignment to complete, that was...

  Terada Honke is one of the most prominent sake makers that have opened a door to a whole new way of appreciating the sake category for drinkers ...

  In the serene and pastoral north of Japan's Niigata Prefecture lies the Fukushimagata lagoon. It's a beautiful and peaceful, incredibly expansiv...

  Sake is going through a quiet revolution - on the surface, Sakes are more globally recognised than ever, a rare feat for a drink of Asian descen...

   “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, ...

  What happens if you grew up in a country well-known and proud of its production of a national drink, and yet you couldn't take part in the craft...

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

  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...

To understand the growing popularity of the controversial doburoku – which has landed Japanese homebrewers in jail – you need only to have a taste...