Sake News from Japan
Toyama Prefecture brewing with local Oyama Nishiki rice
The Chunichi Newspaper site has a report on the Wakatsuru brewery in Toyama Prefecture, and their new range of sake made from the sake-specific rice Oyama Nishiki.The brewery, based in Tonami city, announced on 18 July 2018 that they were overhauling part of their...
Advice for sake beginners, straight from the brewer’s daughter
The Da Vinci News site covers a book published by the daughter of a brewery with the aim of introducing more people to sake.Kuramoto no Musume to Tanoshimu Nihonshu Nyumon (蔵元の娘と楽しむ日本酒入門, "Enjoy being introduced to sake by the daughter of a brewer"), is written in a...
Helping hands for a recovering brewery
The Sankei West site has a report on a brewery hit by the heavy flooding in western Japan - and the people helping it recover. The venerable Morikawa brewery is located in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, one of the towns hit by heavy rains and flooding in July 2018. Four...
Sake as a sign of status? (Part 2)
Carrying on with the article on the celebrity overseas status of sake in Nikkei Style (Part 1) Yōko Tateya continues with her notes on what sake is popular where and with who.Regardless of nationality, executive class drinkers lean towards the relatively new...
Sake as a sign of status?
Nikkei Style has a feature on sake overseas - but this time as the exclusive drink of the jet set.Yōko Tateya doesn't sell sake in Japan, but instead focuses on wealthy Westerners from her bases in Sweden, Switzerland and Australia. A former employee of a non-Japanese...
Sake takes off in Paris
The Sankei News site reports on the unprecedented popularity of sake in the French capital Paris, and its potential for pairing with French food.There's never been a better time for sake, with major labels competing on flavour and high-class hotels and restaurants...
Like father, like daughter – taking over as tōji
The Mainichi Newspaper has an article on a tōji's daughter who stepped up to take on the role after her father fell ill. Yuri Kawana hated being the only daughter of the owner of the Kawana Shoten brewery and had no intention of taking over the family business,...
Dassai show signs of recovery from flooding
The terrible flooding in western Japan damaged Asahi Shuzō, makers of Dassai (Asahi Shuzō damaged by flooding). The Asahi Shinbun digital edition reports on the extent of the damage... but the brewery is also showing signs of recovery. Asahi Shuzō is based in...
Personalised sake labels
The Value Press! site has an article on an app called "Snap Nihonshu" ("Snap Sake") which lets you use your phone or computer to combine your own photos and text with graphics to create a label - which is then printed and attached to a bottle of sake. Contents Crew,...
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