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08.16.2010

Sake Club for July

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.

Sake Club July

Sake Club for July

All three were phenomenal sakes this time, all scoring 90 or more with one reaching 95!… Continue reading

07.30.2010

Red Wine and Sake Help Create Superconductor

Open Sake Barrel

Sake Barrel

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… Continue reading

07.25.2010

Sake Club for June

Sake Club June

Sake Club June

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… Continue reading

06.13.2010

Sake Club for May

Bit late posting this as the June delivery is due tomorrow, but these are the 3 sake bottles that were delivered in May from my Sake Club here in Japan.

Sake Club

Sake Club for May

Again, they are all from the Slow Food Nippon 2009 contest, and they are (from left to right) … Continue reading

05.30.2010

Headaches, Histamine and Wine

Several studies including one by Frost & Sullivan for The Nutrition Research Newsletter in June 1996 have found that foods containing histamine (such as wines) can cause headaches in people who are intolerant to histamine.Mind you, isn’t that like saying “Punching people in the face can hurt people who are intolerant to being punched in the face.” ?Anyway the April edition of Wired magazine listed the… Continue reading




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