Tasting-Pairing

Sake Warm or Cold

Sake has been traditionally served warm for many centuries. Sake is one of the very few alcoholic beverages to be served warm except for rare servings of warm wine or beer. More>

Food Pairing

Traditionally, sake has been matched with any food in Japan which includes mostly seafood, vegetables, tofu and rice. Sake is conventionally selected as an accompanying alcoholic beverage with sushi, sashimi, tempura, and other Japanese foods while beer (and recently wine) are chosen for Western foods. Lately, people have begun to realize that sake can be paired well with a wide variety of foods, both Oriental and Occidental in nature. More>

Chicken Buckwheat Salad

Smoked Salmon

Sushi

Tasting

Like most food and beverages, sensory evaluation is done using our eyes, nose, tongue, mouth and throat before and after drawing the beverage into the mouth. We make overall evaluations based upon the signal these sensors send to the brain. Sake tasting is a serious practice for ranking or classifying products by experienced sake experts. More>