I am so stoked to type the following sentence: We are adding another American-made craft sake to our True Sake portfolio and you’re going to love it! Literally from a neighborhood of Los Angeles (the Sawtelle area) comes...
In reply to our True Sake Newsletter Issue No. 210, where I discussed celebrating my 2,000th professional sake review, one of our longest standing customers wrote the following and we are supremely grateful. “Speaking of sake journals. Throughout...
Greetings Sake Fans and Connoisseurs, Chris here, your favorite "Assistant to the Sake Portfolio Manager", back with a new and different column for the newsletter. Beau san asked for another column from me, and I was happy to oblige. But what could...
Yay! Sake brewers and brewery owners are starting to travel from Japan again. This is such great news. And one of their first stops is a fun and quiet little sake tasting at our store Monday May 9th from...
https://www.truesake.com/blogs/april-2018/ask-beau-are-you-ready-for-the-iwcThe original column was penned back on April 20, 2018. Greetings fellow Sake Fans and Connoisseurs,Chris here, back at it with another "Mining the Archives." This time around, I revisit an "Ask Beau" column (a column that I'd like to...
Every once in a while, we go "up river" to speak to our importers and distributors to determine if there are certain overstocked products that we need to get moving to help create fresh and timely sake offerings. Sometimes, they...
Katsuyama KenFrom Miyagi Prefecture. Junmai Ginjo. SMV: +4 Acidity: 1.6 The nose on this IWC Champion sake is a unique collection of melon, berry, straw, bread, lemon, stone fruit, and rice aromas. Smooth, round, crisp, and dry this sake is...
Oakland, California Junmai Ginjo Nama SMV: +1 Acidity:2.4 Three cheers for American Craft Sake! And three more cheers for Yoshi and Lani from Den Sake Brewery for making another “batch” of sake history using California-grown Yamada Nishiki brewing rice....
