Sake Reviews

  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...

Most of us know of the Fushimi Inari shrine - the big, intricately designed shrine in southern Kyoto built to worship Inari, the Shinto deity of ri...

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

  We've heard of sake brewers founded by sumo wrestlers, or those bestowed important titles by prominent samurai of the time. However, have you he...

  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...

  Kikusui's Perfect Snow Nigori is not only an homage to the brewery's snowy home of the Niigata Prefecture, but is also a great and accessible pl...

  haccoba, yes that's a lower-case "h", has become one of the most exciting Sake brewers in Japan in spite of its youth. In the Sake game, generat...

  We're back with sixth-generation Gunma Prefecture Sake brewery Tsuchida! Today we're going to try the Tsuchida 12, which is meant to be a low AB...

  Toko is one of the oldest active Sake brewers in Japan and is a highly regarded one at that - no small feat in a country that has some of the wo...

  Nose, a town in Osaka and not the organ you smell with, is home to a quiet craft sake brewery with something of a growing cult following. Akishi...