From Kyoto Prefecture. Junmai Ginjo. SMV: -6 Acidity: 2.2 What can I say? Some breweries take pride in being different. They extol the virtues of marching to their own drumbeat. They specifically make sake the way that THEY want...
From Ishikawa Prefecture. Junmai Daiginjo, SMV: +3 Acidity: 1.3 Are you ready for a stealth sake? Are you ready for liquid complexity? Are you ready for a “like water” drinking experience that gives new meaning to a pristine sake?...
Fukuiwai 50 Chiba Prefecture. Junmai Daiginjo. SMV: +1 Acidity: 1.4 Okay Folks! It’s time to help a sake brewery out by purchasing their sake today! Several months ago a typhoon literally ripped the roof right off this Chiba prefecture...
Toko Ginga Shizuku "Divine Droplets" From Yamagata Prefecture. Junmai Daiginjo Shizuku.SMV: +3 Acidity: 1.4 Ginga Shizuku the original version was an industry pioneering sake that blew the sake market away. From the Shizuku technique to the ice dome used to produce...
Welcome to the 180th Issue of America’s sake-centric Newsletter. In this special summer edition representing 180 months in a row or 15 years of uninterrupted newsletter awesomeness heed the call of SAKE DAY and get your tickets ASAP, learn three...
The “Beau Zone Layer” – Mizunoshirabe “Sound of Water” From Niigata Prefecture. Junmai Ginjo Nigori. SMV: +4 Acidity: 1.7 No! Don’t tell me that you just blew past this review, because it is an unfiltered or “Nigori” sake? Shame on you! Nigori sake...
The “Beau Zone Layer” – Nechi Otokoyama Yamahai Junmai From Niigata Prefecture. Yamahai Junmai. SMV: +1 Acidity: 2.2 Do you Umami? Huh? Do you know that nebulous and mysterious 5th flavor that is all the rage today on cooking shows? If you do...
The “Beau Zone Layer” – Tsukinoi Nanotsuki 80 From Ibaraki Prefecture. Junmai. SMV: +5 Acidity: 1.9 Keiko Sakamoto, the seventh President of Tsunikoi, became extremely passionate about creating organic sake while her husband Kazuhiko was battling cancer. In the end he lost...
The Beau-Zone Layer – Matsuno Kotobuki Ginjo From Tochigi Prefecture. Ginjo SMV: +5.5 Acidity: NA Say hello to a “whisper sake.” What the hell is a whisper sake? Basically there is a style in making sake that results in super soft, super silky,...
The Beau-Zone Layer – Tonoike (Bo:)” From Tochigi Prefecture. Junmai Ginjo SMV: NA Acidity: NA Hey wine lovers listen up! There is a new movement within the sake world to make wine-like sakes that have high acidity and bright characteristics that are different and...
The Beau-Zone Layer – Harada “Brew Master” From Yamagata Prefecture. Junmai Ginjo Muroka Nama SMV: -2 Acidity: 1.8 Usually I use the Beau-Zone Layer to teach or educate folks about certain sakes that are fascinating or made in a special way or are...
