Sake Guides
Articles on choosing, tasting, serving, and how sake is made. Currently available in Japanese.
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14Traditional Sake Brewing and Japanese Culture: Shinto Rituals, the Seasons, Gift-Giving, and Sake Day
Sake is a drink, but in Japan it has always been more than that, a constant companion to daily life. It is poured out as an offering to the gods, raised in celebration at New Year and weddings, enjoyed as a marker of the changing seasons, and wrapped up as a gift. Behind all of this lie the geogr...
Culture & History #Intermediate #culture #history #seasonal -
25Shiboritate, Hiyaoroshi, Akiagari: The Language of Seasonal Sake
Sake carries the seasons in its name. Shiboritate belongs to winter, natsuzake to summer, hiyaoroshi to autumn. Even from the same brewery, the timing of brewing and shipping changes both the taste and what the bottle is called. Once you map these terms onto the calendar, picking the sake that's ...
Culture & History #Beginner #seasonal #terms -
45Seasonal and Occasion Pairing: Matching Sake to the Season's Harvest
The simplest trick for pairing sake by season is to match ingredients and sake that come from the same point on the calendar. Spring wild greens call for a spring sake; autumn mushrooms call for an autumn sake. When both sides of the pairing are drawn from the same season, their intensity and ser...
Pairing #Soshu (light & crisp) #Junshu (rich) #Intermediate #pairing #seasonal