01 Boilerplate
Sunflower Sake is a Portland sake shop and tasting room, founded 2021, focused on American craft sake and makgeolli alongside a deep import selection.
Sunflower Sake is a sake-focused retail shop and tasting room in Portland’s historic Olympic Mills building, founded in October 2021 by wine and sake professional Nina Murphy as a pop-up; the shop opened in October 2022. Alongside roughly 200 rotating bottles from Japan and the US, it pours flights and kanzake, ships nearly nationwide, runs two sake clubs, and hosts the annual Fuyu Fest.
02 Fact sheet
Founded
October 2021 as a pop-up; the Olympic Mills shop opened October 11, 2022
Address
107 SE Washington St. #121, Portland, OR 97214
Hours
Tue–Thu 1–7pm · Fri 2–8pm · Sat 1–7pm · Sun 1–6pm · closed Monday
Selection
~200 beverage SKUs: sake, champagne, craft makgeolli, hon-mirin, select wines
Tasting room
25–40 sake by flight, glass & carafe · kanzake service · $10 corkage
Shipping
Nearly nationwide via a licensed partner (exc. UT, MS, DE & dry counties) · ships namazake · current rates
Clubs
Seasonal (2 or 4 bottles/quarter) & Monthly · current pricing
Events
Fuyu Fest (annual, winter) · Exploration Sessions · Wednesday Flights
03 Nina Murphy
Sunflower Sake is owned and operated by Nina Murphy, an award-winning wine and sake professional with experience in sales, viticulture, winemaking, retail and education. Day to day, Nina runs the shop, leads private and public sake classes and tastings, and works to build the presence and reputation of sake in the United States.
2022Wine & Spirits Education Trust, Diploma graduate
2022Panelist, inaugural SBANA Sake Stakeholders’ Summit
2021Laithwaite’s Award, top performance in the WSET Level 3 Wine exam
2021WSET Sake Level 3 graduate · Sake Professional Course graduate
2020Contributing lecturer, University of Maryland Introductory Fermentation course
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