Sake Guides
Articles on choosing, tasting, serving, and how sake is made. Currently available in Japanese.
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12How to Choose Sake as a Gift: A Guide to Japan's Gifting Traditions
When giving sake in Japan, the surest way to avoid second-guessing yourself is to settle two things first: who the gift is for, and what the occasion is. The very same bottle calls for different selection criteria (and different gift wrapping) depending on whether it marks a year-end thank-you or...
Buying #Beginner #Gift #Overseas #gift #buying -
18How to Buy and Choose Sake Outside Japan
Outside Japan, no store carries anything close to the range you would find in a Japanese shop. Instead of hunting for a specific brand, you will more often be choosing from whatever happens to be on the shelf. That is exactly why two skills pay off: reading the label and judging how the bottle ha...
Overseas & Inbound #Beginner #Overseas #buying #label -
19City Sake Tourism: Brewery Visits in Tokyo, Kyoto's Fushimi, and Kanazawa
You don't need a countryside detour to experience sake at the source. A few free hours in the city are enough to see how it's made and taste the results. Urban sake experiences fall into three broad types: brewery tours, where you see the production side; tastings and kakuuchi (standing bars insi...
Brewery Tourism #Beginner #Traveler #Overseas #brewery tour #region -
20Is Hot Sake Low Quality? A Sake Q&A for Visitors to Japan
Spend any time on English-language forums and you'll run into the same claims about sake. "Hot sake is for cheap sake." "Junmai is always the best." Each one is half right and half wrong, which is exactly what makes them so persistent. This Q&A untangles the misconceptions that circulate most wid...
Basics #Beginner #Overseas #basics #temperature #classification