How to read a sake label
Four things sit on almost every bottle. Find them and you can walk into a shop with no staff who know sake and still come out with something good.
Why the sake in D.C. is the way it is
The interesting sake goes to New York and Los Angeles. The reason is a law from 1933 and a distributor's spreadsheet, and a hundred people together can get around both.
How a blind tasting works, and how to score one
Labels go in a bag before anybody arrives. Here is the shape of the night and the four things you are scoring, so a first tasting is not spent working out the rules.
Send us a bottle and about twenty people will tell you the truth.
Kasumi Club pours everything blind. Breweries and importers use us to test the D.C. market, and every bottle we pour gets a page with its score, whether it wins or not.
How it works for breweries