Sake Guides
Articles on choosing, tasting, serving, and how sake is made. Currently available in Japanese.
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03How to Read a Sake Label: The Complete Guide
If you can decode the numbers on the back label, you can size up a sake before you ever pull the stopper. The ingredients line tells you whether it is a pure-rice brew. The polishing ratio tells you how far the rice was milled. Read the Sake Meter Value and acidity together, and you can even pred...
Classification #Beginner #label #classification #sweetness dryness -
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 -
37How to Read a "Gold Medal" Sake Label
It's tempting to reach for a bottle the moment you spot "Gold Medal" on the label. But which competition awarded it, in what year, and to which sake exactly? The label alone won't tell you. A "gold medal" doesn't mean the same thing from one competition to the next. Awards can be a useful clue wh...
Awards #Beginner #Gift #awards #label