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.
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
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 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
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 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
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