Monsieur Saké's blog

I opened a bottle of the 2023 and 2022 vintage of the same delicious Jôgen No Tsuki Junmai Daiginjo. I tasted and now I share my notes.

From April 2024, Manotsuru Daiginjo Maho 真野鶴 万穂 大吟醸酒 will be available in Quebec. Since 2001, he has won numerous distinctions.

KANADEL Junmai Daiginjo Orikarami is brewed at Gakkogura, a former school transformed into a school brewery and Obata Shuzo laboratory.

C’est un délicieux saké d’automne fait à partir de riz Koshi Tanrei biologique et acheté directement de la brasserie Kato Shuzoten.

Since 2010, Aoki Shuzo has donated part of the sales of Yukiotoko sake to the Mountaineering Accident Prevention Council of Minami Uonuma

The Japanese crested ibis is the bird symbol of Niigata. This plains and wetland bird came close to extinction at the turn of the millennium

The sugidama 杉 玉 (literally, cedar ball) serves as a sign for sake breweries.

Thanks to its snow, the Niigata Prefecture produces the best sake in the world.

Thanks in particular to its relief, abundant precipitation and accumulations of snow, Japan is above all endowed with soft water.

The water used for brewing sake is almost always drawn from a well that is often even within the enclosure of the kura.

In Shiozawa, Niigata, the Aoki brewery, manufacturer of the Kakurei and Yukiotoko sakes, uses snow to air condition its warehouse.

As explained on the RICE 酒米 page, every rice cultivar grows better in one region than another. But, in Japan, any brewer can use any rice...