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Nowhere to Run: Sake Brewing and Climate Change

March 10, 2024

Japan and its sake breweries are no strangers to natural disaster. One extreme example is the tight cluster of breweries around the famed “Miyamizu” hard water source in the historical…

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Kōji – More Than Just a Sweet Thing

December 23, 2023

Anyone reading this has probably explained – or had explained to them – how sake is made at some point, and it usually goes something like the pithy line from…

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Is Wine the Best Way to Promote Sake?

September 13, 2023

Exports are steadily climbing and more people are beginning to understand what it is, but sake still has a way to go before it can solidify its place alongside other…

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Zenkuro – New Zealand Craft Sake

March 5, 2020

Article by: Sebastien Lemoine (French translation below) This post is based on my personal notes about Zenkuro, taken during an interview with David Joll and Matt Shaw from Melbourne Sake,…

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PRESS RELEASE – Sake On Air 1-year Anniversary Celebration

November 19, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE World’s 1st Sake & Shochu-dedicated Podcast “Sake On Air” Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary TOKYO – Sake On Air - the world’s number one podcast dedicated to Japan’s…

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Sake Event Schedule (Oct-Nov 2019)

October 28, 2019

The Japan Sake and Shochu Information Center is home to a slew of sake-centric events all throughout the year. On occasion, we like to pool that info together in one…

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Serving Up Sake

July 24, 2019

Across a pair of recent episodes of Sake On Air, Wolfgang Angyal, CEO of the Riedel company  in Japan, has prepared a brilliant workshop, an opportunity to understand Riedel’s methodology…

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Follow up to “Talking Terroir” (EP 18)

June 20, 2019

On a recent overseas sake promotion project guiding wine experts around breweries in Japan, one term that popped up more times than I care to remember was terroir. Not from…

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