True Sake

Each and every day somebody will ask why I opened True Sake? And each day I reply, "Because I needed a place to buy good sake!" But there was more to it than that. I mean opening a dedicated sake...

What if I told you that all of your ills and bad lucks to come would go away if you offered somebody a cup of sake? What if I told you that you could make amends for all of your...

Recalling past Newsletter issues it is obvious that I like to abuse sake. No not heavy drinking! No not sake bongs or sake body shots (not yet at least), rather putting sake under duress to see what happens. We continually create experiments...

Add oil spills to the list of natural and un-natural occurrences that have adverse effects on the sake industry. Forget Typhoons and early frosts - forget rice eating insect invasions or excessively hot summers. In November a loser of a...

I snuck into Kiji (http://www.kijirestaurant.com) - a small sushi restaurant on Guerrero - for a quick meal and a glass or two. With roughly 20 sakes on the menu they have a good selection from Gokyo Junmai to several Honjozo offerings. They...

In the NY Times Sunday Magazine there was a small section about Hayes Valley and True Sake! There is a nice piece in the US Airways Magazinethat interviews John Gauntner and a sommelier in Las Vegas with a brief mention of True Sake....

We have received new bottle size offerings from the ever popular Yaegaki Mu Junmai Dai Ginjoand Suigei "Drunken Whale" Junmai. Think 300ml's! And the fresh batch of Kudoki Jozu 720ml's is now on the shelf! We are almost out of the Fall...

Jan 28th - The Room Temperature Junmai Tasting How about a cold weather sake tasting on the fly? This event will be the first of many to come on Monday's across the street from True Sake at a restaurant called...

Got a very specific question from a gentleman who saw a segment about True Sake on television. I get these questions quite often because people are quite curious about my trademarked TasteMatchTM system where I identify sakes that a person would enjoy...

Ah, at last we have reached the end of this Newsletter and that of course means that we have come to the now-famous SECRET WORD. To those who are new the SECRET WORD is a chance for you to try...

Dear Sake Drinker, Welcome to the December Issue of America's sake-centric newsletter. In this issue think gifting sake for the holidays, don't UV your Ginjo Dude, January 1st sake traditions, why oil and water don't mix, and of course the...

As many of you know I have just returned from a two week "stint" in Japan - completely refreshed my sake batteries and loaded up on buckets of new information - information that I can only gather from the brewers...