Welcome to the 154th Issue of America’s sake-centric Newsletter. In this Junmai special issue, learn why we have declared June, “Junmai Month” at the store, read the medal results from the IWC 2017 and check out which of these sakes...
We selected June to be Junmai Month at True Sake. Why? It’s a pretty cool word in the sake world. Junmai as we know has two meanings. The first is historical and has slightly changed in the past several decades....
Tadah! The results for the International Wine Challenge are in and guess what? You win! As you know, this sake challenge event judges commercial sakes that are available to the entire sake industry. The IWC does not admit sakes that...
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW AT: SAKE DAY 2017 This is a HUGE warning! The event space is smaller this year (cuter too), so we WILL sell out the event. Did you hear that? We WILL SELL OUT SAKE DAY 2017...
Hello Sake Lovers! Since Junmai are on the mind, I scoured the depths of 14 years of True Sake articles to discover three exciting articles. The first that perked my interest was a far-gone nigori tasting at an old local...
The word Junmai really has two meanings in the sake world. The first is a category name that revolves around how much a sake uses milled or polished rice to a certain percentage (It used to be a standard 30%...
Hey! Three fun new arrivals grace the shelves this month. But you are right, all three have been at True Sake in the past. Do you remember? Probably not, because it’s been a while! The Denshin 1st Class is a...
Tedorigawa “Silver Mountain” From Ishikawa Prefecture. Yamahai Junmai. SMV: +2 Acidity: 1.6 Okay Okay! You’re right! This is the brewery that was featured in the Birth of Saké movie. And yes, that movie has done a lot for sales of Tedorigawa sake. But no!...
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...
