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File this away for next year: the best sake for matsutake-zake just might be a good, earthy, well-made honjozo. November 2021, I had a surplus of fresh matsutake mushrooms. Eager to reach some conclusions, I compared about a dozen different styles of matsutake-enriched sake this...
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“Riedel isn't kidding when they call it the Extreme Junmai,” I thought to myself as I pulled a glass out of the box. Like a champagne coupe on steroids, a Chevy’s margarita glass pulled inward to create a bowl, or...
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photo credit: Marie Meyers Introduction to Kanzake One of the great and unique pleasures of sake is the dimension of temperature, which can be used like an equalizer in a sound system. At cool temperatures aromatics are muted (much like wine)...
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