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The Dassai Blue Sake Brewery occupies a massive 55,000-square-foot space in the town. It was the site of a former grocery ...
Sake, once the heart of Japanese tradition, is surprisingly falling out of favor in its homeland—but booming abroad. In this ...
Sake ONO is a sake that demands to be sipped chilled. It's a Junmai Daiginjo sake, so is brewed with rice milled down to 50% ...
SAKÉ is one of the most important drinks of Japan, as it should be, coming from one of their most important food staples, rice (now that’s Japanese efficiency: two products from one crop). While poems ...
What defines a sake as junmai daiginjo is the milling rate of the rice, meaning the percentage weight of the raw grain that’s removed by processing. The rice used in junmai daiginjo is milled ...
Award-winning, UK premium drinks distributor Speciality Brands has announced the addition of KANPAI, the London Craft Sake ...
“Hassen’s philosophy is to make a sake for every course and every cuisine. For example, by changing the proportion of the koji used, our junmai daiginjo tastes like white wine.” Hassen Blanc, a Junmai ...
We went for the Sakura Vesper, which is a take on a classic martini with Botanist gin, Sake Ono Junmai Daiginjo and olive brine, and the Sakura Dew, which was a sweet blend of Akashi Tai Yuzushu ...
Sakurai then took the company in a different direction. Asahi Shuzo entered the premium sake business by producing “junmai daiginjo,” which is made of highly polished rice. Although the ...