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Spirits
Sake Recommendations ? [moved from SF Bay Area board]
Gekkakow Vintage daiginjo Gekkeikan Horin daiginjo Wakatake Onikoroshi daiginjo or ginjo Kubota daiginjo Tenju shiboritate (“first pressing”) Tsukasabotan shizuku (live yeast, gravity dripped) Kimoto honjyozo (fortified)... (5 replies, last updated by barleywino June 26, 2007)
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Beer
Sake for a dinner party
Some commonly available sakes which you might keep an eye out for are Gekkeikan Horin daiginjo, Kubota daiginjo and Wakatake Onikoroshi ginjo or daiginjo (of course you will serve these cold!) Or bring a dessert sake for... (4 replies, last updated by Noice March 13, 2007)
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Manhattan
Last week's sake lecture/tasting at the Japan Society (and Oms/b)
, there was sake available from 11 brewers, all members of the association. Most brewers had two or three types available. In order, my favorite brewers were 1) Fukucho: the Daiginjo Tobinkakoi Shizuku was a really lovely,... (1 reply, last updated by Aki November 13, 2003)
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General Chowhounding Topics
Informative Sake Thread on the Bay Area Board
their notes too. We tasted six sakes: 2 Junmai, 2 Ginjo and 2 Daiginjo. We tasted all of these straight (without food), so am sure they’d be completely different with food. The Junmai’s were: Masumi “Okuden... (2 replies, last updated by Pssst March 25, 2003)
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Boston Area
Sake retailers Boston area?
in terms of flavor profile, the closest that I’ve found locally to nama-sakes like the Masumi is Gekeikkan Horin daiginjo, although that is pricier and still pales by comparison in flavor. Blanchards used to carry Seiryo... (6 replies, last updated by elcaminogirl October 29, 2009)
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Washington DC & Baltimore Area
Source for buying sake in the MD/DC area?
Hello All! I am looking to buy a bottle of Junmai Daiginjo sake. Does anyone know where I can buy this for a good price? Thanks! (6 replies, last updated by cfoodie April 7, 2009)
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Beer
Desperate for Information-Do you recognize this Saki? [moved from Wine board]
From last year from John Gauntner’s sake-world.com: http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2005_10.html "Okunomatsu “FN” Junmai Daiginjo. Developed by Okunomatsu (of Fukushima Prefecture) for the express purpose of... (3 replies, last updated by Akatonbo July 14, 2006)
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Ontario (including Toronto)
Sake
there are a bunch of japanese import/export shops in the east beaver creek plaza in richmond hill. ozawa imports is one of em, and i’m pretty sure they bring in a few differemt junmai daiginjo for the lcbo. may be able to... (2 replies, last updated by tuqueboy December 14, 2005)
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San Francisco Bay Area
Premium Sake Tasting - Monday, March 3 6:30-8pm
there will only be sake tasters there.... Come taste a selection of six fine premium Japanese sakes. We will taste two each of the most commonly seen classifications of sake – Junmai, Ginjo and Daiginjo. Seio Shimada of... (0 replies, last updated by Rochelle McCune February 25, 2003)
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Manhattan
Restaurant in TriBeCa or lower Manhattan...
of their junmai daiginjo sake, or some White Rabbit martinis. You can request the chef to exclude any items you don’t care for(e.g. no octopus or no oysters) or include any items you especially like (e.g. sea urchin, Kobe... (2 replies, last updated by CTer July 30, 2002)
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International
Sake tasting at Kuraya, Tokyo (longish)
was what I guess you’d call a horizontal tasting, with five different types of sake from the Jokigen brewery in Yamagata. We started off with Daiginjo Yamada Nishiki 40% seimai (yamada nishiki being the type of rice, 40%... (2 replies, last updated by Rachel M. October 21, 2001)
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Beer
Curious about Fukunomiya Sake
surprising. There should be other information on the label, such as the type of sake — Junmai, Ginjo, Daiginjo, Junmai Daiginjo, Namazake, etc. This will help you find out more about the bottle in question. I wish I could... (4 replies, last updated by NAspy February 17, 2008)
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Ontario (including Toronto)
Good sake
at about $15, and a few other selling the smaller bottles for about $8. A few other japeanese non-hakasturu or non-gekkeikan offerings also. If your not familiar with sake language, look for ginjo or dai-ginjo in the name of the... (10 replies, last updated by fleisch August 17, 2007)
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Beer
Sake Recs.
Have no idea what is available in your neighborhood but some of the readily available sakes in Asian markets around here which i might recommend include Gekkakaw daiginjo, Gekkeikan Horin daiginjo, Kubota daiginjo. Less expensive... (9 replies, last updated by galambo April 8, 2007)
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Manhattan
Sakagura Sake Tasting
of the sake starts with the higher grade daiginjo closer to the restaurant entrance and works down in grade, ending up with aged sakes at the end of the bar furthest away from the entrance. Even if there’s a big crowd at... (5 replies, last updated by MNS in Chelsea March 17, 2004)
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