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Fine sake – the tasting notes

Friday 7 October 2016
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The week before last, all roads seemed suddenly to be leading towards sake. See Sake on the move.

On the Monday night I dined à la japonaise with an electronic musician described by another, the son of Anthony Hanson MW, as ‘techno/dance music royalty, a very big cheese’. Unfortunately this is far from my world and I grilled Richie Hawtin shamefully ignorantly about his work. (You can imagine, I’m sure.) What I was really interested in was his love of sake and his Enter.Sake range of six sakes designed for export to Europe and North America. He has just...

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