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February 2025

  • Taste with KJ – Umeshu With Attitude
    February 7, 2025

    Taste with KJ – Umeshu With Attitude

      If you’ve ever perused the store and taken a slight look into the sweet section, a little horror of a bottle may have caught your eye. There is a tiny square bottle* with an ominous face taunting us from...

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  • The “Beau-Zone” Layer – Hakkaisan Honjozo
    February 7, 2025

    The “Beau-Zone” Layer – Hakkaisan Honjozo

      From Niigata PrefectureHonjozoSMV: +5 Acidity: 1.4 Honjozo sake is not a freakin’ crime man! I know the world gravitates to Junmai Daiginjo and Ginjo sake, and that there is a solid anti-added brewer’s alcohol school of thought in Japan....

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  • Sake Education – Sake Classes in the Bay Area
    February 7, 2025

    Sake Education – Sake Classes in the Bay Area

      Fifth Taste Sake School, based in San Francisco, is one of the leaders in sake education nationwide. They offer classes with the Sake Sommelier Association as well as the Wine & Spirit Education Trust. Your instructors are Jesse Pugach,...

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