sake master blog
Today, I have finished 2 Sake Basic Trainig @Palazzo Versace & Mariotto Benihana and just got back home in Melbourne now.
It was great to meet around 30 people who attened the training & showed me thier interests in Sake.
Also, it was great to ctach up again with Mr Takahashi & Mr Inaba from CHOYA UMESHU.
Thank you very much for setting up this event to Mr Suzuki from Daiwa Food QLD, Mr Yokawa, Jemma san from Benihana & Palazzo Versace.
Hopefully, people got better & clearer idea about Sake in Gold Coast now!
Today, I am going to Gold Coast for one day only...
@12:00pm - I will go to PALAZZO VERSACE GOLD COAST to give a sake basic training to thier staff and chef so hopefully they can creat a new menu matching with sake,
@3:00pm - next stop wiill BENIHANA Teppanyaki restarurant in Mariotto Hotel.
Both events with Sake Cocktail Demonstration!
Will be a Fun day, I hooe
Today, I had the happiest monent in last a few weeks. One of my Japanese customers @Maedaya who traveled to Melbourne to watch St Kilda vc Geelong match over the weekend came back to Maedaya for the first time since his last visit in September last year.
Once he sit down at the bar counter, he smiled and started talking to me about how he had being caught up at the custome when he entered into Australia this time. Then he showed me a huge beutiful box of KUBOTA MANJU JUNMAI DAIGINJO 1.8L and offered me to have it as a gift! He told me that he enjoyed the meal & sake last time @maedaya and he wanted to bring a good Japanese sake to me & maedaya staff to enjoy. What a nice & kind gentleman! Thank you so much, Hayakawa san! !
We opened the bottle and enjoy sipping it together. KUBOTA MANJU JUNMAI GINJO is one of the most famous smooth & dry sake from Niigata, Japan and he told me this is one of his favorite style of sake. Indeed, the fragrance is not so big considering being a Junmai Daiginjo but the smoothness & cleanness with a crisp dry finishing is the strong sales point. I can easily see why this bottle is so famous in Japan.
Thank you again Hayakawa san for a beautiful present! I would love to share this bottle with my friends & customers who just honestly loves sake. (So if you see this blog, come to maedaya to try this beautiful sake!) Please enjoy staying in Melb and footy, Hayakawa san!
Finally, Sake Japan has set up the new delivery system with Australian Post such as Fragile Delivery Service & Electric Parcel Tracking System. And as a good news, the postage become even cheaper than ever.
As a result, Sake Japan is finally be able to offer you
A FREE DELIVERY IF YOU BUY 3 OR MORE BOTTLES AT ONE TIME!! (It effects to most of the major cities in Australia. Condition applys. Please see the terms & condition pages)
So now it will be much more reasonable to buy sake as a bulk of 3 to 6 bottles. Maybe you can call your friends or families and see someone near you will be interested in sharing the sake order with you.
FREE DELIVERY SERVICE will be started on this Sunday 16 May from 6am.I hope this service is very beneficial for you!!
Kanpai!
IMPORTANT NOTICE - Sake Japan Close at 16 May from 5am to 6am for Maintenance
Hello,
From 1st of January, SAKE JAPAN office has been moved to the new location from the old
Clayton South office.
Our new office address and contact detail is below.
SAKE JAPAN / DAIWA FOOD
6/251 Ferntree Gully Road
Mount Waverley, VIC 3149
T: 1300 986 318
F:1300 338 728
More space for Sake in our new warehouse! Please expect more new Sake from Japan will be introduced!!
*Please be awara that we have NO SAKE PICK UP SERVICE directly from the office due to the Victorian liquor lisencing law.
Dear Sake Japan Customers,
Thank you very much for your loyal support of SAKE JAPAN in 2009.
It is my big pleasure to know that Japanese Sake has been getting more & more popular in Australia these days and Sake Japan is getting more popular here.
I promise you that I will continue to intorduce you more of great sake products directly imported from Japanese local sake breweries. Of course, I will try all my best to give you the most reasonable price as always.
We are planning to have more sake tasting events all around Australia this year including KIKIZAKE tasting event for general people (late Jan / TBA) and annual event GOOD FOOD & WINE SHOW 2010 in Melb, Sydney, Brisbane & possibily Adelaide for the first time!
Also, I will introduce more of Sake Cocktail Recipe on this Sake Master Blog for you to try more Sake Cocktails easily at home.
I wish your continuous support for Sake Japan in this new year 2010.
Thank you very much.
Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu!
Toshi Maeda
Finally, today is the last day of 2009. I am scared to recognize how quick time goes by recently..
Looking back to 2009, it was very exciting year for me. It was the second year for Sake Japan as well as my restaurant Maedaya so me and my team have tried a lot of new things for good.
TOP 3 THINGS HAPPENED TO ME THIS YEAR
1: TOSHI MAEDA BEING ON A COVER OF THE AGE & EPICURE (I can't help it..)
2: KIKIZAKE SAKE TASTING EVENT VOL.1 & 2 (Thank you , Andre san !)
3: I AM BECOMING A DAD (Due in April !)
TOP 3 SAKE I MET THIS YEAR
1: KOSHINOHATSUUME KARAKUCHI HONJOZO HACHIKARA (On sale in January 2010)
2: IPPONGI JUNMAI GINJO YUKI (Just like snow melting on your palate.. It's BEAUTIFUL!)
3: KAMOSHIBITO KUHEIJI JUNMAI GINJO OMACHI (Thank you Hiro san for the introduction. It was a total new sensation! Hopefully one day we would get imported from Nagoya, Japan!)
At the end, I would like to send
A BIG THANK YOU to veryone who have been supporting SAKE JAPAN & MAEDAYA through a year. Without your support, I won't be here as what I am now.
I promise I will keep trying my best to introduce a new world of Japanese Sake to you in next coming year as well.
HONNENMO OSEWANINARIMASHITA. DOZO YOI OTOSHIO!
Toshi Maeda (Sake Japan) 31/12/2009
Last Saturday afternoon, we had a sake & shochu tasting event at CARWYN CELLARS in Thornbury, Victoria.
We had 13 people attended the event and we tasted 3 Sake, 3 Shochu & 1 Umeshu along with a Sake & Shochu lecture.
Sake Tasting List @Carwyn Cellars
1.Kizakura Kuranouta Junmai
2.Ranman Ginjo Reiryo
3.Kizakura Yamahai Jikomi
4.Shironotakumi Kome (rice) Shochu
5.Kakushigura Mugi (barley) Shochu
6.Kaido Imo (sweet potato) Shochu
7. Choya Umeshu (plum wine)
It was a great surprise to know that more Australian people are interested in Sake and indeed, some of them have tried Sake & Shochu before in Japan or at Japanese restaurant. Another surprise is Mugi Shochu (barley) was the most popular ones out of 7 bottles.
I would like to send a big thank to James san & Paul san from Carwyn Cellars and Keisuke san from Daiwa Food for giving me this great opporunity.
Thank you very much!
Hello to the north side of Melbourne people
I am going to join the Sake & Shochu Tasting & Cocktail Class @Carwyn Cellars (829A High Street, Thornbury VIC) this coming Sat 28 Nov from 2pm. The detail is below.
The Sake & Shochu Cocktail Class
Japan's ancient culture meets Melbourne's new styles in this comprehensive cocktail class. Join Sake Master Toshi Maeda as he guides us through the history of Sake (Rice Wine) and Shochu (Japanese "Vodka") from it's humble beginnings over 2000 years ago to its use in contemporary cocktail culture in the here and now.
Saturday 28th November
2:00pm - 4:00pm
$60 per head, 12 places ONLY
Includes 2hr class, tastings, cocktails and showbag!
RSVP Tuesday 24th November
9484 1820
$20 deposit req'd
Carwyn Cellars
P 03 9484 1820 F 9480 4167
829A High Street, Thornbury VIC
carwyn.cellars@gmail.com
I hope to see you there!
PS: To central Melbourne people - Sake tasting event @Maedaya coming up in late December. To be announced soon!
Since we had an article on the Age Epicure last tuesday, we have a lot of new customers at Maedaya. Thank you very much for coming and trying Maedaya! Hopefully, people enjoy our Izakaya style sake bar as a new Japanese experience.
And of course, Always Thank You to all our regular customers who have been supporting Madaya since our opening last April 2008. Without you, we are not where we are.
Now I would like to send a big THANK YOU to Jane Faulkner and the Age for giving us this great oppotunity. Thank you for forcusing on a new trend Sake & Japanese Tapas!
At the last, I would like to thank you to all my staff at Maedaya who shares a passion & pleasure with me to make a great Izakaya in Richmond under a name of Maedaya.
I know without everyone's support, I couldn' make even 20% of what I have done. My ability is still limited and I am not a perfect man at all but I promise I will try to make 120% of myself all the time to simply make everyone happy.
Thank you so much for caring and looking after me.
Korekaramo Yoroshikuonegaishimasu.
