Born in 1975 originally from Kobe, Japan, Toshi has grown up in a beautiful nature of North Kobe surrounded by great local products such as Kobe Wagyu and Koshihikari rice. Toshi has landed in Australia, 1996 to study English for only one year but the beautiful Australian nature and people make him decide to stay there for extra decade and more.
Toshi Maeda fell in love with Japanese premium sake at his mid 20's for its beautiful fragrance and texture since his first sip on Tatsuriki Daiginjo. Since then, Toshi has tasted hundreds of wine, beer and sake and now he strongly believes that the quality, variety, complication and profundity of Japanese sake are almost equal or even greater than Western wine. Honestly, Toshi believes that Japanese premium sake will be fully enjoyed by Australian people in a similar way of wine.
Unfortunately, there are not many opportunities around in Australia to have TRUE JAPANESE SAKE EXPERIENCE. Toshi would like Australian people to enjoy the true flavour and delicacy of premium sake more than just a HOT HOUSE SAKE you can have at any Japanese restaurants. That is the reason why Toshi teamed up with Melbourne's own Japanese food importer and distributer DAIWA FOOD CORPORATION to import the finest selection of Japanese premium sake and open a brand new sake online shop SAKEJAPAN.COM.AU. Simply that is for you to enjoy Japanese premium sake in Australia much easier than ever.
Toshi has a Japanese Izakaya style restaurant "Sake & Grill MAEDAYA" in Richmond, VIC. You can actually taste most of sake you find in www.sakejapan.com.au at Maedaya as a trial. Toshi is also planning to have sake seminar at his restaurant sometime. Check Toshi Maeda blog for upcoming event news.
