Sake Reviews

Celebrating the Year of the Tiger!Sake from Kochi prefecture tends to be on the dry side, but Arimitsu prefers to make their sake mellow and gen...

Another lovely sake from Gunma! I’m constantly impressed by the variety of sake styles from the prefecture. This one had very nice apple & m...

A restaurant exclusive bottling at Kei Hachi. It was super aromatic with strong pineapple smells. The sake itself tasted very sweet and fruity. ...

  A beautiful line up of Kaze No Mori’s Alpha range. Yoshi-san shared that he tries to do something different for each Alpha in the series.My fav...

Brewed with Aramasa’s signature No. 6 yeast, this bottle was full of juicy green apples. It was both sweet and sour with a high acidity. There w...

  Full flavored and round. I found it sweet with a hint of bitterness, like a sweet grapefruit. Tasted so different from a typical Daiginjo sak...

Well-balanced, clean, hints of sweetness. A fruit bomb! Lots of melons. Initially bought it for the label but was pleasantly surprised. Gunma s...

Brewed using Kyokai No. 6 yeast. There was quite a bit of umami and acidity in this one, which mellows out as the sake comes to room temperatur...

Had this as part of @mtrsake’s Sake Scholar Course and by far is my fave from our tasting list!The ID Series was bottled to showcase terroir. It...

Ishizuchi makes 90% of its sake at a premium grade so it was interesting to try their Ginjo label. This was especially brewed for the summer hen...

This is part of the “Same Sky” series which features four bottles brewed in each season of the year. Since the pandemic, travel has been restric...

  There are only about 10 breweries in Tokyo so when I saw this at the supermarket I was quite keen to try it. This is part of the Sawanoi brand ...