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Sake/Fruit Wine
750ml
Bottle: $13.96
12 bottles: $10.46
Brilliant, pale straw hue. High toned sweet rice and bread dough aromas come with a measure of alcoholic warmth. A...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
750ml
Bottle: $14.25 $15.00
Crystal clear in the glass, this aromatic sake gives off subtle aromas of lilies, river stones, and tapioca. Crisp...
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94
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Sake/Fruit Wine
180ml
Bottle: $17.69 $18.62
6 bottles: $15.84
Sake/Fruit Wine
300ml
Bottle: $16.90
12 bottles: $13.18
Complex aromas of soy sauce, yellow flowers, and sungold tomatoes are delicate and inviting. Dry in the mouth, the...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $41.12 $43.28
6 bottles: $36.80
Complex aromas of soy sauce, yellow flowers, and sungold tomatoes are delicate and inviting. Dry in the mouth, the...
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92
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Sake/Fruit Wine
300ml
Bottle: $10.85 $11.42
12 bottles: $8.55
Gekkeikan Nigori is a rough-filtered Junmai-shu. By definition Nigori means 'cloudy' and this style of sake is...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
1.8Ltr
Bottle: $63.27 $66.60
This Junmai Ginjo brings out the gorgeous subtleties of this Yamada Nishiki, with an initial sensation of melon...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $29.64 $31.20
This Junmai Ginjo brings out the gorgeous subtleties of this Yamada Nishiki, with an initial sensation of melon...
Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $34.80
12 bottles: $33.06
For his Junmai Daiginjo Niizawa-san has chosen to use heirloom Omachi rice milled to 40% which gives this graceful...
Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $22.80
12 bottles: $21.66
Slightly fuller and chewier than the Hakurakusei Tokubetsu Junmai, it shares the house style: clean and zippy and...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
1.8Ltr
Bottle: $46.17 $48.60
6 bottles: $45.60
Slightly fuller and chewier than the Hakurakusei Tokubetsu Junmai, it shares the house style: clean and zippy and...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
1.8Ltr
Bottle: $42.75 $45.00
6 bottles: $42.00
Classic example of a modern sake style, the Hakurakusei Tokubetsu Junmai is laser focused, a clean, direct sake...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $23.02 $24.23
6 bottles: $19.19
Using selected Japanese Plum, "Ume", Hakutsuru Plum Wine has been brewed with highly developed fermentation skills...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
750ml
Bottle: $17.56 $18.48
12 bottles: $14.25
Using selected Japanese Plum, "Ume", Hakutsuru Plum Wine has been brewed with highly developed fermentation skills...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
500ml
Bottle: $14.45 $15.21
12 bottles: $12.35
Hakutsuru Plum Wine "SLIM" is produced from selected Japanese Plum, Ume, and using highly developed fermentation...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $26.68 $28.08
6 bottles: $22.40
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $21.74 $22.88
6 bottles: $18.80
This is a sake with a mellow, rich flavor. When enjoying your sake chilled, a sake cup, wine glass, or cocktail glass...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
300ml
Bottle: $13.87
12 bottles: $13.18
Straw color. Aromas of ripe melon, shiso, grapefruit zest, pear, rainwater, elderflower, caraway, and star anise with...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $25.60
Straw color. Aromas of ripe melon, shiso, grapefruit zest, pear, rainwater, elderflower, caraway, and star anise with...
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Sake/Fruit Wine
720ml
Bottle: $76.08 $80.08
6 bottles: $76.00
A luxurious Sake, mouth-filling and full of flavor, yet delicately refined. Enjoy the elegance of refreshing floral...
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Japanese Whiskey Moschofilero Sake

Whisky might not be the first thing that springs to mind when we think of Japanese fine produce, but over the past one hundred years, this fascinating and multi-faceted country has diligently forged a unique whisky identity which is growing in popularity, and which is entirely its own.

The story of Japanese whisky begins in 1918, when Masataka Taketsuru was sent to Scotland to undertake a tour of single malt distilleries in the Highlands, and bring home a knowledge of whisky and distillation skills. He returned full of inspiration, helped no doubt by his new Scottish wife, and alongside his friend, Shinjiro Torii, set up what would become a successful whisky industry.

Today, the Japanese whisky industry is spread over a relatively small handful of distilleries, which continue to use Scottish techniques and recipes, but with a hefty dose of distinctly Japanese experimentalism. This is displayed most obviously in the barrelling techniques the Japanese use - to create a distinctly Oriental set of tasting notes, native Japanese oakwood casks are used for ageing, alongside casks taken from plum wine producers, which impart a beautiful set of floral flavors to the whisky.

While some distilleries produce some excellent single malts, the majority of Japanese whiskies are blended, which reveals a unique set of flavors and aromas ranging from honeysuckle and orange blossom, to toffee and acetone.

Greece has many AOC regions, each with their own signature grape varietal which is cultivated and processed to an exceptionally high degree of excellence. The AOC of Mantinia on the beautiful expansive plateau of the Peloponnese has the Moschofilero varietal, a gray colored white variety which produces exceptional Blanc de Gris wines. A delicate grape, highly sensitive to adverse weather conditions, it is nonetheless prized by wine makers for its unique attributes and the quality of the wine which can be made from it. Although commonly compared to western European Muscat wines, the Moschofilero grapes produce wine which is in a league of its own – full of floral aromas containing heavy, almost soporific notes of rose petals and violets. The flavor of the wine tends to be spicy, and leans more towards earthy mineral flavors rather than fruit ones, making it perfect as an aperitif or coupled with salty olives and cheeses.

Moschofilero wines tend to be elegant and subtle, with their strength being in their crispness, and the bouquet of floral aromas rising from the glass. The finest Moschofilero wines to come out of Greece in recent decades have included the Tselopos, whose high altitude vineyards have seemingly mastered the potential and complexity of this gray grape to international acclaim.

Additional Information on Greek Wines


Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?