This is a podcast to chronicle my journey into the world of sake and other Japanese drinks, food, culture and history. While I have a sake qualification (International Kikisake-shi), I still consider myself as a novice in the sake world. I have plenty to learn about the drink and I want to share this experience with my listeners through personal accounts, interesting facts about sake and interviews with sake experts.
There are plenty of books about wine or whiskey. You go to any bookshop and you can always find something. Unfortunately, there are actually not many English language books available…
The origin of sake is covered in mystery. In order to get some clarity, I have spoken to Natsuki Kikuya, who is a certified sake and wine professional, educator and…
The story of Moto is really fascinating. You can imagine what it means to open a bar and not just a bar but a sake bar three months before the UK went into a complete lockdown for more than 2 months and then again in November. But let’s listen to her story.
Amazing interview with Oliver Hilton-Johnson is a Sake Specialist and Director of Tengu Sake, a sake imports, wholesale & retail company. Tengu Sake supplies quality Japanese sake and spirits to some of the UK’s finest restaurants and bars and is the recipient of the International Wine Challenge’s ‘Sake Merchant of the Year’ award 2016 - 2019. In November 2019 Oliver was named as one of the ‘Future 50’ drinks industry professionals to watch.
The second part of the exciting two-parter about how sake is made. I never stop admiring the skill and craftmanship of sake brewers. They manage to create a beautiful drink…
This episode is the first in the series of interviews with very interesting people from the world of sake. I am asking them for tips and advice about how to start buying and ordering sake without any fear to be embarrassed. Satomi Dosseur is a sake professional and educator living in London. Moreover, she is a founder of Enshu Limited, which runs a great and very interesting sake specialist course (Kikisake-shi), which I took and greatly enjoyed a few years ago.
There is something magical in sake brewing. Sake is a process-driven drink compared to wine which is driven but its main ingredient, grapes. While ingredients play a very important role…
I know it took a bit longer to produce this episode. But I am very happy that it is published on World Sake Day. For the last few years, I was celebrating it by going to various sake tasting, meeting friends I had not seen for a while and chatting about new sake trends, experiences, plans and how sake is getting more popular. Alas, not this year. I guess a lot of sake lovers will celebrate this day at home or logging into a virtual drinking party or sake tasting. Let's hope that the next year will be much better and we will see each other as they say now "offline" and drink an ochoko or two for each other's health. Kampai!
A new episode of Sugidama Podcast is out! This time I talk about sake brewing methods: kimoto, yamahai, sokujo-moto and bodaimoto. How they are different from each other and how sake made with each method taste. If you like the podcast, please leave a review and share it with your friends! Kampai!
Later than intended but a new episode of Sugidame Podcast is out! Learn about sake types: nigori, nama, genshu koshu etc. Please share the episode with your friends and everyone, who wants to know more about sake. Kampai!
