Comments on: Go-Shu Blue Super Premium Junmai Ginjo Sake

By: reesan

reesan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:06:51 +0000

“One Cup Ozeki” made it here but it is sold in hardware stores as paint stripper under the label methylated spirits.

By: yonasu

yonasu — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:06:05 +0000

I see haha, I’ll have to take a look around and see what’s available and look them up before I buy anything then^^

By: emuu

emuu — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:49:32 +0000

Did “One Cup” ever make it to your sunburnt land? Nasty.

By: reesan

reesan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:36:20 +0000

Thanks for your comment Yonasu! Looking forward to hearing the outcome of your next sake encounter. Make sure you get some decent sake though. Some of the sake imported here into Australia, for example, tastes like cooking sake.

By: yonasu

yonasu — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:02:20 +0000

Looks good! I’ve actually only tasted Sake once in my life, and I don’t remember what brand it was… Gonna have to get my hands on some and do a taste test^^

By: reesan

reesan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:45:37 +0000

i hear ya jonathan. i picked this bottle up in a local ‘bottle-o’ (Aussie vernacular for ‘liquor store’) and it seems that they are marketing it as a companion to the great Aussie barbecue pitching it against light dry white wine – an already popular drink on such occasions across a fairly large demographic.

the label compares to similarly priced (AUD22.00) bottles of semillion or sauvignon blanc.

sun masamune however have a ‘daiginjo’ version (label below) which appears only to be available from the brewer. i think that the ‘daiginjo’ is the one reserved for exporting to japan. i am heading to the brewery next week to pick up a bottle.

zoomz opinion of the ‘Go-shu Blue’ is that it is a very good izakaya sake. i guess she is saying that it doesn’t get close to the best that japan has to offer but she will reserve her opinion on australian sake until she tries the ‘daiginjo’.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:53:07 +0000

obviously it’s what’s in the bottle that counts, but man, couldn’t they have come up with a better label??

By: emuu

emuu — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:23:50 +0000

Hey, turnaround is fair play. The Japanese are taking the whisky awards these days, why not sake production outside Japan.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:23:28 +0000

I will post this entry into the blog carnival. Thank you! The sake looks great.

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