Sake Reviews

  The historic Ozeki Brewery - the one's who invented cup Sake! - who is also one of the oldest sake breweries existing today, having been founded...

  Aramasa is a historic Sake brewery that is deeply intertwined with the history of sake-brewing in Japan, and whose survival and success today is...

  Moments of discovering the unusual, the complex, the downright transformative, are precisely what make drinks and spirits appreciation so enjoya...

  While the brewery has a history that spans well over 150 years, it is perhaps best known outside Japan for its most recent ultra-premium sakes t...

  Puku Puku (ぷくぷく) is a really interesting Sake brewer that runs itself as a phantom brewer - that is, it has no Sake brewing facilities of its ow...

  Alright, if there's one thing we thought couldn't be uprooted and transplanted, it's Japanese sake. After all, in its homeland, the rice wine we...

   If there's one product that we didn't think could relocate, it's Japanese sake. In fact, in its homeland, the Japanese rice wine that we know i...

Most of us know of the Fushimi Inari shrine - the big, intricately designed shrine in southern Kyoto built to worship Inari, the Shinto deity of ri...

  People are fond of making prestige comparisons. An artist may be described as “The Andy Warhol of Japan” (Takeshi Murakami), or a director “The ...

  We've heard of sake brewers founded by sumo wrestlers, or those bestowed important titles by prominent samurai of the time. However, have you he...

  Tucked within the Yamagata Prefecture lies the Tatenokawa Brewery which was founded in 1832. Unlike most breweries which produce a range of styl...

  There's no sugarcoating this: Terada Honke's Musubi is a sake that you'd either love or hate. This deemed the most extreme expression from Terad...