Sake Reviews

Sake to celebrate the Year of the Tiger. Interesting Junmai Daiginjo - wasn’t as clean tasting and fruity as I thought it would be. Instead you ...

A very nice Junmai Daiginjo from Miyagi made with their local rice strain Kura No Hana. It’s basically everything you would expect from a Junmai...

Opened my very special bottle of Alpha 8. This is made of brown rice, completely unpolished, hence the name “Power of the Ground”. I’ve never ta...

Celebrating the Year of the Tiger!Sake from Kochi prefecture tends to be on the dry side, but Arimitsu prefers to make their sake mellow and gen...

Another lovely sake from Gunma! I’m constantly impressed by the variety of sake styles from the prefecture. This one had very nice apple & m...

A restaurant exclusive bottling at Kei Hachi. It was super aromatic with strong pineapple smells. The sake itself tasted very sweet and fruity. ...

  A beautiful line up of Kaze No Mori’s Alpha range. Yoshi-san shared that he tries to do something different for each Alpha in the series.My fav...

Brewed with Aramasa’s signature No. 6 yeast, this bottle was full of juicy green apples. It was both sweet and sour with a high acidity. There w...

  Full flavored and round. I found it sweet with a hint of bitterness, like a sweet grapefruit. Tasted so different from a typical Daiginjo sak...

Well-balanced, clean, hints of sweetness. A fruit bomb! Lots of melons. Initially bought it for the label but was pleasantly surprised. Gunma s...

Brewed using Kyokai No. 6 yeast. There was quite a bit of umami and acidity in this one, which mellows out as the sake comes to room temperatur...

Had this as part of @mtrsake’s Sake Scholar Course and by far is my fave from our tasting list!The ID Series was bottled to showcase terroir. It...