2014

Welcome to the 120th Issue of America’s sake-centric Newsletter. In this tasty issue learn how and why I taste every sake in the store for you, buy your tix for Sake Day, read about an amazing sake dude in Hokkaido...

I used to joke that I drink a lot of bad sake so you don’t have to. In other words I taste each and every sake that gets selected to be in the True Sake line up. Taste? What do...

Early Bird Tickets on Sale Through 8/31! Nihonshu no Hi is the day of sake in Japan and it’s always on October 1st, but that day is a Wednesday and we need a serious Saturday to do all of the...

What is amazing about the sake industry is the fact that sake souls exist and it is so much fun bumping into one now and again. I bumped into Carlin Kumada years ago, and have been working with him at...

Is it me or does the summer curtain feel like its coming down? Well we might as well go out in flames or have one hell of a Bar-B-Q! Right? Of course sake was made for a grill and that...

Wakatake Onikoroshi “Demon Slayer”From Shizuoka Prefecture. Junmai Gingo, SMV: +3, Acidity: 1.5   First and foremost I love the bottle. Yup! It’s square just like its very famous Junmai Daiginjo’s sister bottle. Check out the website to see the old round...

  Tengumai Junmai Daiginjo "50"From Ishikawa PrefectureJunmai DaiginjoSMV: +3 Acidity: 1.4$30/720ml Yuho "Eternal Embers"From Ishikawa PrefectureJunmaiSMV: +6 Acidity: 1.7$27/720ml Yuho "Rhythm of the Centuries"From Ishikawa PrefectureKimoto JunmaiSMV: +3 Acidity: 2.2$24/720ml SawahimeFrom Tochigi PrefectureTokubetsu HonjozoSMV: +5 Acidity: 1.4$29/720ml

I was recently asked this question as I was being interviewed by a Japanese graduate student doing a thesis on the sake industry in the US and Japan. The question was a good one and it made me think about...

Welcome to the 119th Issue of America’s sake-centric Newsletter. In this MONUMENTAL issue rejoice the arrival of the new True Sake website that has taken a while to arrive but now allows you to buy sake online whenever you want,...