2016

Tengumai “50” Junmai Daiginjo $10/300ml Katafune Junmai Ginjo $47/720ml Nechi Otokoyama Junmai Ginjo $46/720ml Nechi Otokoyama Junmai $37/720ml Kakeya Nama Junmai ’16 $48/720ml

Nechi Otokoyama Junmai GinjoFrom Niigata Prefecture. Junmai Ginjo. SMV: +2 Acidity: 1.3 Oh Boy! I’ve been waiting for a long time for this obsessive brewery to export their really unique and “Terroir” driven sakes. These guys are fanatics when it...

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So there have been a lot of requests on how to follow me and my (let’s call it unique) eye for sake-centric photography. There are two ways. First you can follow me directly at @truesake on Instagram, which is a really...

Ha! I knew this question would be coming soon. What I didn’t know is that so many people would ask from almost every continent on the planet. And right there is the rub in a nutshell. What do I think...

Welcome to the 144th Issue of America’s sake-centric Newsletter. In this helpful edition learn how many sake lives have been saved in multiple emergencies, join in our fight to keep old sake off of retail shelves, check out some very...

I may be dating myself (I’m 29), but I was a huge fan of a TV show in the 70’s or early 80’s called “Emergency.” It was based on paramedics and it was awesome! The show followed two paramedics who...

It’s no secret. I am a sake guardian angel when it comes to retail sake. I love the sake industry so much that I will spend my own money on what I call “Sake Mercy Killings.” What is a SMK?...

As many of you read in the May True Sake Newsletter, I went to Hyogo Japan for the 10th Anniversary of the International Wine Challenge. During my visit, I was privileged to plant sake rice in the best rice growing region...