November 30, 2021
As sake continues to move beyond Japanese restaurants, more customers are looking to their local retailer for a great bottle or cup to take home– which means now is the time to refresh and upgrade your sake section! Even if... UNFILTERED Archives: Japan
Japanese Traditions, American Innovations: Brooklyn Kura Leads the Burgeoning American Sake Scene
September 23, 2021
ABOVE: Brandon Doughan and Brian Polen. Perhaps no internationally enjoyed beverage is identified as closely with one country as sake is with Japan. While whiskey may have roots in Ireland and Scotland, those traditions are now just as firmly rooted... 7 Things We Would Have Loved to Pour for You At Our 2021 GPT
March 9, 2021
Think of this as our monthly answer to, ’so what have you been into lately?’ — fresh updates from Portfolio Managers with unfiltered intel on why we’re drinking what we are. Last year we kicked off the new decade with... Breaking Down Barriers in Wine, Spirits, & Sake – International Women’s Day 2021
March 4, 2021
Above is Angela Osborne of A Tribute to Grace and Land of Saints. Next Monday, March 8th is International Women’s Day 2021 – a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women! The day also marks... 5 Sake We’re Feeling Right Now (& Introducing Our Full Japanese Beverage Portfolio!)
October 21, 2020
While Japanese whisky in particular has deservedly received a lot of attention in the past few years as some of the finest on the planet, the vast world of sake brewing covers the entire Japanese archipelago and has a rich... Iwao Niizawa: Quiet Revolutionary of the Sake World
May 14, 2020
What is the future of sake? The past is easy to talk about with sake. Its origins stretch back millennia, almost every single brewery making sake today has a history of at least a century, many stretching back hundreds of years.... Iwao Niizawa: Quiet Revolutionary of the Sake World
What is the future of sake? The past is easy to talk about with sake. Its origins stretch back millennia, almost every single brewery making sake today has a history of at least a century, many stretching back hundreds of years....
Resilience in the Face of Adversity: The First 500 Years of Kenbishi Brewery
March 30, 2020
Above: Nihonbashi. Print by Utagawa Hiroshige. Japan is a nation uniquely familiar with disaster, and it informs so much of their culture and outlook on life. Being perched at the end of the earth on a geologic fault line, earthquakes are a... An In-Depth Shochu Seminar with the ‘Young Guns of Miyazaki’
February 25, 2020
While Japan has been getting a lot of attention recently for its excellent whisky, not many people outside of the country are familiar with its most popular spirit: shochu. Shochu (pronounced show-chew) is Japan’s native spirit with hundreds of years... “The Skurnik Family Creates A Force In Wine” – Market Watch
February 6, 2020
We are honored to be recognized on the cover of Market Watch to kick-off 2020. The full story highlights our Long Island beginnings, recent growth in distribution to include three new states, insights from the distribution and imports side of...