stuff. In my sake classes, we’ve never drunk it hot. I’m surprised that you ran into very expensive sake served hot—I always thought very expensive equals daiginjo which equals unsuitable for drinking hot (the...

Junmai Dai Ginjo Sake from Fukushima, Japan that sells for $600 a bottle. Asking Tetsuya-san, the quiet, friendly chef recommends the Asanebo Daiginjo Sake, which turns out to be a premium Sake (with Rice that’s polished...

Right you are about Somerville. Apologies. After a bottle of chilled junmai daiginjo, I’m lucky I remembered my name. :-)))

of Shirataki daiginjo (“premium”) for £85, it’s likely to change the way you think about sake (also available by the glass, £10.50 per glass). Footnote is that the menu may be changing soon as head chef is...

- which is a great ultra-premium "Junmai Daiginjo" sake starter for folks not experienced in sake tasting. It’s also usually reltively expensive and the waitress was VERY professional in its presentation and immediately...

I was pleasantly surprised to see that Liquor World carries Gekkakow vintage daiginjo sake, among an otherwise small/ unremarkable sake collection (the dessert sake they carry is not particularly good imho)

‘Ginja Shizuki (Divine Droplets)’ Junmai Daiginjo Sake, Hokkaido, Japan All the elements of this dish seem so nicely arranged in the “glass,” but alas, your server lifts it up before you know it, spilling...

to interact with and incredibly knowledgeable. To pair with the next dish, she poured a glass of Kanchiku junmai daiginjo sake that I thought was very well-chosen. Definitely on the dry side, and frankly not something I would...

. We began with a bottle of Yonetsuru Daiginjo Sake, from Yamagata, Japan. It was very fragrant, with a floral and fruity accent, but with a rough finish. I prefer a smoother finish, but overall it was OK. The first dish that...

has gone to in Japan, is Oga’s. Oga’s omakase left him (and me) very happy – the daiginjo sake helped – but more than anything else, being treated as he wanted to be, and as he was used to, by the itamae...

. And it continues like this for the next few hours, an endless stream of information from the inferiority of daiginjo sake (which I love by the way) to the superiority of rice over fish, fish and rice temperatures, the...

. An empty tumbler. A minute later. A blue bottle of unordered sake. Electric azure, it seemed almost enchanted in its appearance. And the mystique remained as the potion, poured into the glass, instantly became clear. Gingerly, the...