by Arline Lyons | Feb 28, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
Hard to believe that the Great East Japan Earthquake was 14 years ago, but the country has not forgotten the event or the support received from its neighbours. So when a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Hualien, Taiwan in April 2024, the Yamagata brewery Yonetsuru...
by Arline Lyons | Feb 28, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
Another permanent fixture in the sake world is serving in wine glasses, and there’s even a competition to go with it. The Fine Sake Awards, or to give it its Japanese title, “Sake Delicious in a Wine Glass Awards” has been running for 15 years, and...
by Arline Lyons | Feb 28, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
It’s the new category at IWC sake, so clearly ageing sake at low temperatures is not going away any time soon. And there’s a new entrant in the category, Ondo (which could be the reading for the Japanese characters for “temperature”)...
by Arline Lyons | Feb 28, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
Posts by the generously named Society for the Preservation of Traditional Japanese Sake-making Techniques Using Koji (日本の伝統的なこうじ菌を使った酒造り技術の保存会, nihon no dentōtekina kōji wo tsukatta sakezukuri gijutsu no hozonkai) highlight a short film by female amateur film-maker...
by Arline Lyons | Feb 28, 2025 | Sake News from Japan
If you walk around inside a sake brewery today, chances are you’ll be surrounded by enamel-coated or stainless steel tanks of various sizes, the preferred containers for producing sake since they became widely available after WWII. Before then, most brewing...
