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...

yourself out in 1-1.5 hours. If you want atmosphere and decor with the slightest notch down in sushi perfection, Jewel Bako. Think of Yasuda as a sushi temple. It’s about the sushi and traditionalism and nothing but. Order a...

a fairly expensive ($21) sake to us, but we were not at all disappointed in our selection: Hakkaisan Junmai Ginjo, with clean dry flavors, and a wonderful accompaniment to the appetizers and sushi we were planning to order. They...

-40 different types of fish, 20-30 flown in from Japan daily, 5 grades of toro, 5 grades of fatty yellowtail, lightly fried blowfish, junmai daiginjo sake...average cost per person at Yasuda was $150/person but well worth the...

and flavor, and I was glad I hit that one first as it ran out quickly; 2) Dassai: the “Migaku Niwari Sanbu”, a junmai daiginjo, apparently has the highest milling ratio for the rice of any sake in Japan, and...

oh, also Saito’s in Belltown has a fairly impressive sake menu, with sakes broken out by classification (ginjo, daiginjo, junmai, etc) as well as dryness rating.

with a delicate but not so flavorful junmai for $54. The meal was pleasant enough...my favorite items being the grilled snapper and the soba. Unfortunately, I left feeling that I would have had a better meal if I went with the...

grilled duck breast with lemon sesame salt sauce and Korean-style BBQ sauce. Dessert choices include house-made chestnut gelato or house-made yuzi gelato. Sakes include “You's time,” "Kingyo Junmai" and "Bizen Omachi...

sake and not neccesarily the style or type, which would be a ginjo, daiginjo, or junmai, most likely. even if the details of what was on offer arent handy, can you give us an idea of how many options there were?

at the counter and we ordered the omakase. We paired it with a junmai sake that the in-house sake expert recommended. The plates came pretty quickly and each dish was very good; there was nothing we didn’t like. My personal...

friend, and I think she found her favorite in the superb duck. To drink, we each ordered the three-sake sampler. This included two junmai's and one ginjo. While I preferred both of the fresher and fruitier junmai's with our food...

“selection” is pitiful. Even the web menu lists only 4, three of them at least being junmai ginjos. But the actual menu in Hamden had only three, one of them a fairly boring mass-producer’s product, one a junmai...

(this includes our lunch at French Laundry.) All three were wonderful, but the scallop/sea urchin and smoked trout were truly special. Paired with saki- Hakkaisan Junmai Ginjo. lovely. Second Course: Cream of Sunchoke Soup with...

Some of the California sakes are pretty good. Check out the Sho Chiku Bai line of products. I’m no expert, but think their junmai ginjo is pretty good stuff that goes well with sashimi and sells at a price ($4-6 / 300ml)...

started my meal with a wonderful cold sake. In a previous post for Wakasan, I mention a cold sake that tastes of honeydew melon. A commenter asked what sake it was, and I had unfortunately not taken note. Hakutsuru Junmai Ginjo...