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**Important Notice From Sake Japan 1**
Dear Sake Japan Customers,
From
1 Nov 2009 3:00am, Sake Japan will start a
Christmas Campaign!
This time, we will give you
FREE DELIVERY SERVICE!!
You can
order from one bottle and send it to anywhere in Australia for
FREE CHARGE OF POSTAGE! (Campaign ends 20 Nov 2009 11:59pm)
This will be a great oppotunity for you to try Sake Japan for the first time and maybe you can pick
Sake as Christmas Gifts to your friends or family.
We also have a
GIFT WRAPPING & CARD service with extra $5.00! (See the detail from the link below)
http://www.sakejapan.com.au/blog/sakemaster/?main_page=item&item_id=35We hope you would enjoy shopping with Sake Japan!
**IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM SAKE JAPAN**
Dear Sake Japan Customers,
Since October 2009, Australian Taxation Department has decided to change category of CHOYA UMESHU (know as Japanese Plum Wine) from WINE category to LIQUOR category. As a result, it gives the product a higher tax rate than ever, and we have to face to the price increase of CHOYA UMESHU very unfortunately.
New Prices Effective from 1st November 2009
CHOYA UMESHU (Without Plum) 750ml
CURRENT PRICE $17.00 → NEW PRICE $20.00 (Including GST)
CHOYA UMESHU (With Plum) 500ml
CURRENT PRICE $20.00 → NEW PRICE $24.50 (Including GST)
Sake Japan keep trying our best to set the prices as low as possible, even though some case like this is totally uncontrollable.
We apologise for any inconvenience to you. And your understanding is truly appreciated.
Thank you very much for your continuously supporting and shopping with Sake Japan.
Yours Sincerely
Toshi Maeda (Sake Japan)
Hello, Brisbane
This is a great news for Sake Lovers in Brisabane!
Sake Japan is taging up with Brisabane's MIZU Japanese Restaurant and having a Sake Tasting Event
"KIKIZAKE Vol.3" on Thursday 5 Nov from 6pm to 7pm.
The sake tasting event includes
4 diffrent premium sake & 3 sake matching food with Sake Master Toshi Maeda's basic sake lesson.
Entry is only $20 and pre booking is essential. (Limited 30 people)
http://www.japanet.com.au/jsbg/newsletter/jsbg_nov09.htmlThis event is organized under Japanese Speakers Business Group, which is a group of Brisbane based Australian & Japanese who are together to learn Japanese culture & paractice conversation in Japanese. (So this sake event will be done in Japanese mostly.)
http://www.japanet.com.au/jsbg/?MMID=2024If you would like to join the event, please contact to JSBG directly.
Email: info@japanet.com.auMIZU restaurant
2 Macquarie Street
Teneriffe BRISBANE
07 3254 0488
www.mizurestaurant.com.au
Sake & Grill MAEDAYA is featured in an article called IZAKAYA RISING on a Melbourne's first independent online magazine
BROADSHEET which has been launched just yesterday!
www.broadsheet.com.auThe story is about a new IZAKAYA style restaurants recently opened in Melbourne such as Izakaya Den in Russel St & Izakaya Ichi Ni in St Kilda along with
Sake & Grill MAEDAYA in Richmond.
Congratulations for Broadsheet launch & thank you very much for featuring Maedaya!
Today, Daiwa Food introduced MAEDAYA 2 new sake botlles freshly arrived from Japan. One is RANMAN TENSHINRANMAN & the other is TATEYAMA GINREI FUTSUSHU. They are both FUTSUSHU but the quality is as good as to be categorized in HONJOZO.
Here is my brief tasting notes for both bottles
1: RANMAN TENSHINRANMAN 1800ml
Fragrance is a bit strong to your nose. At the first sip, sweetness & richness of rice spread all over your mouth and soon light dryness follows up and ending with a bit of acidity. It has a medium rich body and depth in a flavour with a hint of Banana, very typical Ranman style.
2: TATEYAMA GINREI FUTSUSHU 1800mlFragrance is very light. Soon after you sip it, you would see soft, light & dry flavours with a crisp finish. You might think it's not so inpressive at the begining but if you want to drink sake with a meal for a long time, you would need sake like this. It woould never get you bored of it even after a half bottle. Its very typical Tateyama style as well.
Soon, you could drink these sake anywhere in Melbourne, some parts of Brisbane & Adelaide. Please ask for it when you go to your favorite Japanese restaurant. They are worth trying, I reckon.
Today, a new shipment from Japan will arrive in Melbourne. It contains a few new sake bottles I have been waiting for. It is always very exciting thing to see the new sake bottle. When I open the new box, sometimes I can smell the air from where it was packed. Or maybe it is a smell from the sake bottle itself. Anyway, that makes me feel more excited.
Next I check the label & production date. When I look at the bottle, usually I can see the honest attitude of the producer towards the product. So often, the bottle looks synchronize with its taste very much. So label and presentation are very important. Maybe for the sake beginners, I should say that it will be a simple but the best way to choose sake from its looks. I guess it is similar to when you choose wine.
I have stored over 70 different sake, shochu, Japanese beer at Sake Japan. (There are also a few more bottles that haven’t been introduced to the site yet.) Surprisingly, all of them have different own characters and flavour that are changed by rice, water, natural yeast, temperature & milling rate, brewers skill and a lot more other elements. Sometimes it is very subtle and fine to see the difference at the first sip. But after a couple ones, you might see the true goodness of the sake all over your palate.
I love drinking sake. Because each sake bottles have its own characters & stories. And most importantly, I can feel strong hope & will from the professional sake brewers in a bottle. Honestly, I am very happy to introduce sake made from beautiful Japanese nature & sake brewers hard work under their experiences to people in Australia. I reconfirmed that it is my duty as a Sake Master to keep introducing these beautiful gifts (or I should say crafts?) from Japan to Australia.
At Maedaya from this week, we have started SPECIAL SAKE TASTING SET which includes 3 different sake from one sake brewery & 1 sake matching dish together as a set.
For the series 1, I would introduce RANMAN from AKITA, a beautiful semi dry & rich sake selections matching with SWEET EBI MAYO SALAD. Please see the detail below.
SAKE MASTER’S SELECTION
SPECIAL SAKE TASTING SET
(MON – THUR / Ground Floor / Dinner Time Only)
SERIES 1: RANMAN (AKITA) $14.80
(3 sake on 1 plate + 1 sake matching dish)
Ichi: RANMAN GINJO REIRYO (16.5% ALC / glass $11.50)
(Seimaibuai) 55% / (Nihonshudo) +1 / (Rice) Miyamanishiki
Fruity fragrance of melon, light & delicate flavour with a long dry finishing, a hint of cucumber in aftertaste. Ranman’s long seller bottle since 1930’s
Ni: HANARANMAN KOMACHI DAIGINJO (15.5% ALC / glass $16.50)
(Seimaibuai) 40% / (Nihonshudo) +2 / (Rice) Akita Sake Komachi
12 months aged rich, rounded & elegant super premium Daiginjo with beautiful floral fragrance. All good elements of Ranman & Akita are infused in this bottle.
San: RANMAN TOKUSEN KIMOTO TOKUJO (16% ALC / glass $8.80)
(Seimaibuai) 65% / (Nihonshudo) +0 / (Rice) Miyamanishiki & Akitakomachi
Fermented with extra care & time under traditional Kimoto Jikomi method, this Honjozo has sweet & full bodied flavour. Good matching with sweet soy flavoured dish.
Sake Matching Dish – “SWEET EBI MAYO SALAD”
Boiled tiger prawn dressed with Koh’s original mayonnaise & crashed cashew nuts.
*Series 1 starts 21st Sep until 1st Oct
Up Coming
Series:2 HATSUMAGO from YAMAGATA
Series:3 TATEYAMA from TOYAMA
Please come to MAEDAYA to try so many diffrent premium sakes directly from Japan!
Sake & Grill MAEDAYA
400 Bridge Road, Richmond, VIC (T)9428 - 3918
Today, Sake Japan has confirmed to join
Good Food & Wine Show in Brisbane in Nov !
This years GFWS is going to be held at Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Center between FRI 6 Nov to SUN 8 Nov.
Sake Japan are going to have
CHOYA UMESHU & KIZAKURA SAKE booth at the GFWS
(Booth # i32) and give FREE SAKE & UMESHU TASTING as well as selling sake products including
CHOYA UMESHU, KIZAKURA YAMAHAI & other PREMIUM SAKE such as
RANMAN, HATSUMAGO & TATEYAMA.
Also, I am having
SAKE COCKTAIL DEMONSTRATION and FREE SAKE COCKTAIL TASTING everyday during a show.
Please call your friedns and come along to GFWS to get a real Sake experience.
Good Food & Wine Show Brisbane http://www.goodfoodshow.com.au/
@Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (Booth # i32 / behind the restaurant area)
Friday 6 November: 10am - 6pm
Saturday 7 November: 10am - 6pm
Sunday 8 November: 10am - 5pm
I had a very good news from Akita, this week.
One of my favorite Sakagura (sake brewery) AKITA MEIJO known as BISHU RANMAN has featured me and this sake master blog on thier HP!
It is about when I featured RANMAN TOKUSEN GINJO (RANMAN MINI) in my blog at 9 Aug, a preseident of RANMAN, Kyono-san saw it and got inpressed. He translated my blog in Japanese and updated on thier blog page.
I am so honered to be introduced on my favorite Sakagura RANMAN HP.
If you can read japanese, please go to
http://www.ranman.co.jp/blog/ to check it out.
THANK YOU RANMAN! WE LOVE RANMAN!!
Yesterday, I went to Melbourne's premier restaurant festival, TASTE OF MELBOURNE at Royal Exhibition Building in Calrton.
There were about 15 famous Melbourne restaurants such as The Press Club, Jacques Raymond & Verge gathered around and provided a couple of thier signature dishes for $8-$12 each. I have tried so many yummy dishes and I thought Brasseries' Melk fed veal tenderloin with soft polenta, Swiss chard & pancetta was the best dishes out of them. (My appologize that my camera was out of battery..no pic..)
Along witht he restaurants, there were also so many stands for good food & wine products such as Tasmanian salmon, cheese, chocolates & wines. Among them, I found a stand for my new mate, Michael from Le Shack, presenting HAAMONII SHOCHU! I saw a lot of people tasting HAAMONII and they seemed enjoying it. Michael made a special HAAMONII cocktail mixed with Passion friut syrup & pinapple juice. It was very refreshing and yummy! (Sorry again for no picture..)
Also I saw Joey from Golden Monky making a beautiful cocktail from some Brazilian liquor Sagatiba. She made oen with mixed berry and it was beautifully sweet & spot on.
The show was over around 5pm and I was already a little bit drunk from tasting so many beers & cocktails.. so I needed to go home instead of going to the after party..
Thank you everyone for gaving me so many free tasting
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