After many sampling expeditions to Sake House Miro I am starting to buy sake to drink at home. Does anyone know any good stores to buy sake at. I am especially looking for Kaori Junmai Ginjo. Is there any place in Little Tokyo or...

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...

sushi with ponzu and garlic chips at the end, as well as an order of japanese mustard greens that had a bitter cleansing note. I was especially impressed by our sake, Wakatake Onikoroshi ginjo, which Kenji said means “devil...

I’m going to be travelling to Japan and would like to buy some sake to bring back as a gift. Other than the Satano Homare, Kaiun Junmai Ginjo and Gin Ginjo, any others you’d recommend that you can’t purchase...

For nigori, Dassai junmai ginjo nigori has been often mentioned as a great choice. Dassai is from Yamaguchi prefecture and they seem to have increased their production and distribution. Their nigori has a natural (slight) fizz to...

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...

. Two quail eggs and some undetermined sauce made it really good. Sorry. Didn’t pay all that much too ingredients. Too busy catching up. I had three different glasses of sake. One was a junmai ginjo and I was surprised when...

, Sweet Soy, Blue Oyster Mushrooms, Bok Choy, Scallions, Ginger Meibo Yowano Tsuki Sake Junmai Ginjo 2: Alaskan Halibut, Piquillo Pepper, Spanish Chorizo, Venus Clams Bolgheri, Campo Alla Casa, Enrico Santini, 2004 Intermezzo:...

with the soup, but shortly returned expressing apologies from the chef and offering us the Ramen to try. That was nice of them. We ended up having 2 bottles of their Kamozumi “Summer Snow” Nigori Ginjo, which was...

Went again last weekend. Had a super White King Salmon Nigiri, Katsuo Nigiri, Albacore Tataki, and Hamachi Kama. The Echigo rice beer is really good, my honey had a Kikusui sake, a delicious Junmai Ginjo. Can’t wait to go...

been too much for just the two of us at lunch time. Back to the regular sake menu, we decided to share a masu of Shirataki Jozen Mizuno Gotoshi ginjo ($12). I was pleased when a new bottle was opened for us. Described on the menu...

Junmai Ginjo from Berkeley, which was $8.50. The sushi was simple and nice. First up was raw scallop, followed by uni, then a gunkan-maki setup (like uni or ikura) for two small raw oysters, which were supurb. We then turned our...

On the recommendation of a neighbor from Japan, I went to Akebono in Granite Bay. I started out with a sake tasting set consisting of small glasses of three kinds of craft sake, a junmai, a ginjo and a daiginjo. The set was about...

) sushi, as well as an uni roll. Everything was super fresh, melt-in-your-mouth sublime. The uni was so good that I ordered another one for “dessert”. They did not have any daiginjo sakes, so I had a ginjo which was...

Hi, Been looking for a restaurant/distributor/liquor store that carries good (ginjo/daiginjo) sake'. I recently had some Momokawa that was extraordinary, but it’s hard to track down. Any store or brand recommendations? Thanks...