08.29.2010
In Japan there are a thousand and one ways to buy and drink sake. From the huge barrels you find outside Shinto shrines and at weddings or company promotional events, to the standard 1.8l or 750ml bottles, to the one-cup glasses or box cartons from vending machines. Recently in Family Mart convenience stores a new [...]
08.16.2010
Late again with my post about July’s sake club selection – the August delivery arrived yesterday. At least I’d managed to try them all this time. Just this minute posted up the reviews. All three were phenomenal sakes this time, all scoring 90 or more with one reaching 95! The sake’s were from three different [...]
07.30.2010
Bit of a techie post today. In today’s newspaper there was an article about how a group of Japanese scientists have discovered that soaking a special type of iron in red wine, sake or beer makes it a superconductor (a superconductor conducts electricity without resistance, i.e very fast). The cool sounding Nano Frontier Materials Group [...]
07.25.2010
Very late with this post, as the July’s batch of sake’s arrived last week and I am only just getting round to reviewing the June’s selection. Well, the June’s batch were excellent with two of them scoring in the 90s (and the other one fairly close). As always these are from the 2009 Slow Food [...]