The Sake Shop

01/10/2025

🌺🍶Casual Aloha Friday Sake Tasting today (01/10)!

Stop in and ask for a sample!

We’ll be tasting through two sake today: Ohyama Fu-in Junmai Ginjo & Urakasumi Karakuchi Honjozo!

Kanpai!

*Must be 21+

01/10/2025

Urakasumi Karakuchi
Honjozo

For for those who like vibrant, tight, and clean sake this is perfect as it’s one of Urakasumi’s driest sake abroad!

This Honjozo-grade sake is even great chilled❄️, room temperature, or warmed up ♨️

A smooth mouthfeel with a slight floral nose, light touch of umami, and then a very clean & dry finish!

Pair it with anything savory or with meat like a rich broth, grilled fish, sushi, sukiyaki, & more 🍲🧆 🍣

Kanpai!

Polishing Ratio: 65%
ABV: 15-15.9%
SMV:+6
Rice: Manamusume
Acidity: 1.4

01/09/2025

Ohyama Fu-In “Sealed Sake”
Junmai Ginjo

This is a sake made exclusively for Japan Prestige Sake Association! 🇯🇵

Soft and elegant, it has a “Fruity aroma of delicious apple, peach and mango. Expansive refreshing flavor of juicy fruit with mild umami. Soft and viscous texture”. 🍎🍑🥭

It has a beautiful label with a unique “cast gold” texture inspired by Yamagata’s famous Metal Casting!

And it’s conveniently wrapped in a red bag, good against the sun and perfect for gifting! 🎁

Enjoy chilled on its own or pair with sashimi, baked fish, shellfish, fruits, etc.

Kanpai!

Rice: Miyamanishiki
PR: 50%
SMV: +1.5
ABV: 15%
Acidity: 1.5

01/07/2025

And we’re back open!📣🍶

We had a great time being able to rest with our family so thank you for everyone’s patience☺️

Let’s pick back up with a sake that we last tasted before the end of 2024:

Premium Stella “Star”
Muroka Genshu Junmai Daiginjo
Shizuku Style💧

What is Shizuku?

Shizuku or Gravity Drip is where the rice mash is hung in a cloth bag that allows the sake to slowly drip out due to gravity.

This takes a much longer time than traditional or more modern methods of pressing sake, but it results in an incredibly smoother style of sake.

And with Premium Stella it’s like drinking super soft water!😋

Brewed by Inaba Shuzo, this family sake brewery has been around since the Edo Period, and is now run by one of the few female Toji (Brewmaster) around—Nobuko Inaba!

“This sake has a vivid fruity aroma, and as the temperature rises, the mellow umami drawn out from the rice’s core can be enjoyed.

Has a little sweetness at the front, but because of the quick, clean finish this sake can pair beautifully with Western cuisine.

Singaporean cuisine, Spanish cuisine, oysters on the half-shell, steamers with garlic butter sauce, crawfish, venison, duck” (MTC).

Kanpai!

Rice: Yamadanishiki
PR: 50%
SMV: -1
ABV: 16%
Acidity: 1.3

#プレミアムすてら

12/31/2024

Mahalo to our family for pounding such a huge mochi for us & to Noren for the wonderful kadomatsu! 🥳🎍

Just a reminder, we’re open tomorrow for New Year’s Eve from 10AM - 5PM! 📣

And we will also be closed for about a week from January 1st - 6th!

It’s our annual one week off from the whole year, and we apologize for any inconveniences in the meanwhile 🙇🏻‍♀️

We can’t thank you all enough for your support and helping us to survive another year! We’ll post again leading up to and during the new year 🤙🏼

Kanpai!🍶

12/27/2024

🌺🍶Casual Aloha Friday Sake Tasting today (12/27)!

Stop in and ask for a sample!

We’ll be tasting through a variety of sake this Friday & maybe a few more over the weekend!

Some of which includes: Dassai Umeshu 23, Stella Premium Junmai Daiginjo, Daisekkei Ichigo Sake, & more.

Kanpai!

*Must be 21+

12/25/2024

Happy Holidays from your local sake family! 🍶🎊

We hope you get to enjoy time with your friends and families this week—maybe even with a nice bottle of sake and some ono food!

(We got a head start already with some Joku Fall Seasonal Sake😉😄)

And, while we’re closed today to celebrate with family, no worries we’ll be back to our regular hours tomorrow.

Thank you for all the support this week, and we hope everyone got their sake to celebrate!

Mahalo & Kanpai! ❤️

12/24/2024

We’ll be opening an hour early today (12/24) and closing at 5pm!
We can’t wait to see you and help you with your any last minute shopping.
Kanpai!✨🍶✨

12/20/2024

🌺🍶Casual Aloha Friday Sake Tasting today (12/20)!

Stop in and ask for a sample!

We’ll be tasting through a 2 sake today: Urakasumi Hiyaoroshi and Narutotai Extra Dry Junmai.

Kanpai!

*Must be 21+

12/17/2024

We interrupt your sake feed with our Special Holiday Hours for the rest of December and of January! 🔔

Any day not listed will follow our regular business hours🤙🏼

December 24th: 10AM - 5PM (Opening an hour early!)
December 25th: CLOSED
December 31st: 10AM- 5PM (Opening an hour early!)
January 1st - 6th: CLOSED

Drop on by before the holidays and we’ll help you pick out the perfect sake, whisky, shochu, cup sets, and more🍶🥃

Kanpai!

12/15/2024

Hakkaisan Sake Tasting happening now!
We’re even heating up the Honjozo—the Number 1 Honjozo in Japan!🇯🇵

Complimentary tasting with Furujiku-san from Hakkaisan Sake Brewery until 7pm!

Sorry we couldn’t post until now, and thank you to everyone who came already!😆🍶☺️🤙🏼

Kanpai!

12/13/2024

🌺🍶Casual Aloha Friday Sake Tasting today (12/13)!

Stop in and ask for a sample!

We’ll be tasting through a 2 sake today: Nanbu Bijin Daiginjo White Label & Sho Chiku Bai Shirakabegura Tokubetsu Junmai.

Kanpai!

*Must be 21+

12/12/2024

Sho Chiku Bai Shirakabegura
Yamahai Tokubetsu Junmai | Aged 10 Years!🪴
&
Nanbu Bijin Daiginjo
White Label❕

We’ve heard about our Hakkaisan sake that’s coming up, but let’s not forget our other sake of the week too🤙🏼🍶

So to kick it off why not start with an aged sake that’s new to Hawaii? But Shirakabegura isn’t quite snow age like Hakkaisan—it’s aged in earthenware-pots!🪴

After being brewed in the traditional Yamahai method, this sake is aged for 6 years in its pot within an ice vault before being bottled & then aged until 10 years total!🧊

This is said to “…bring out more soft and full quality of Yamadanishiki rice. The nuanced notes of elegant and complex taste with mineral quality”

The nuanced notes includes salted Asian pears, orange, and banana. The palate has a creany mouthfeel and taste of melon, vanila, and cream. The finish has long savory flavors including minerals reflecting the pot-aging process.

Try this sake cold or warm❄️♨️ It becomes much more savory as it heats up and even at room temp!

Pair it with pork loin, steamed clams, risotto, any seafood, and more😋

PR: 60%
SMV: +3
ABV: 15.5%
Acidity: 1.6

Nanbu Bijin Daiginjo White Label❕🍶

We’ve covered so many ono Nanbu Bijin sake, but let’s throw one more in!

It’s made with local Yuinoka rice milled down to 45%, lending the sake a delicate floral aroma and an exceptionally clean taste. Dry, juicy and full of umami!

Perfect to pair it with an omakase night!

SMV: +3
ABV: 16-17%

Kanpai!

12/10/2024

🔔Tis the season for our last BIG sake tasting of the year! That’s right, we’ll be doing a Hakkaisan Sake Tasting at The Sake Shop this Saturday (12/14) from 4PM - 7PM🍶

So to send off 2024, we’ll be tasting a total of 5 Hakkaisan Sake with all of 5 on sale! 🎊

Including two of your favorite snow-aged sake—wait, snow-aged? Yes☃️🍶!

By letting their sake chill in their famous Yukimuro/Snow Room, which is filled with tons & tons of snow year-round, Hakkaisan creates some lush, mellow, and super smooth sake. You’ll have to try both the 3-Year & 8-Year snow-aged sake for yourself!

And to top it all off, we’ll even been carrying a LIMITED & EXTREMELY HIGH-END sake from Hakkaisan:

「八海山百」

This sake, as seen on the second slide with image provided by Hakkaisan, is Hakkaisan’s 100-Year Anniversary sake “Hyaku Daiginjo” with only 3 available at The Sake Shop!

It’s incredibly limited and the price shows with it being $1k+‼️

While we sadly won’t be able to taste this one specific sake, we will be joined by a special guest—Takuro Furujiku—from Hakkaisan Sake Brewery to explain all about the sake we will be tasting as well as the Hyaku Daiginjo🍶💯

Mahalo & Kanpai!
*Must be 21+

12/09/2024

Please join us for our last big sake tasting of the year this Saturday (12/14) from 4PM -7PM at The Sake Shop!

We'll be tasting some special Hakkaisan sake with our guest Takuro Furujiku all the way from Japan, and there's even a limited high-end Hakkaisan sake you can purchase at our shop during this time!

We hope to see you all there & thank you for all your support this year,
Mahalo & Kanpai!
*Must be 21+

Hakkaisan's original Yukimuro sake is aged for three years, but by aging the sake for five additional years, the aroma, flavor, and texture become gentler and milder with an increased depth of umami. The umami and cereal grain characteristics may remind you of the many years this sake has matured ca...

12/06/2024

🍶Casual Aloha Friday Sake Tasting today (12/06)!

Stop in and ask for a sample!

We’ll be tasting through a whopping 3 sake today: Nanbu Bijin Tokubetsu Junmai, Nanbu Bijin Shinpaku, & Sengetsu Taru Shochu.

Kanpai!

*Must be 21+

12/06/2024

Nanbu Bijin Tokubetsu Junmai

Our last sake to round up our Aloha Friday Tasting this week is none other than Nanbu Bijin’s famed Champion Sake of 2017 from the International Wine Challenge!

Highly aromatic, with fruit and grain notes. Neat, clean, and crafted to pair with a wide range of food, excellent at any temperature.

Their recent batch has stronger notes sweet & fruity when you first take a sip! But it still finishes clean and crisp (which makes it hard to stop drinking😚🍶)

So pair it with a variety of cuisines, from an Izakaya night of bbq & pupu—including even cheese—to seafood galore!

It’s also made with local Ginotome rice and local water from Ninohe City, Iwate Prefecture, to truly make it “Made in Ninohe.” Their sake have even been Kosher certified!

Kanpai!

ABV: 15-16%
Polishing Ratio: 55%
Acidity: 1.6
SMV: +4

#南部美人

12/05/2024

Taru Sengetsu🌙🥃
Kome/Rice Shochu

A new but classic shochu has arrived to our shop from one of our favorite shochu brands—Sengetsu or Cresent Moon!

From Kumamoto Prefecture, Taru Sengetsu is a mature style of shochu as it was “aged in oak barrels for over 6 years, resulting in whisky-like flavor and light amber color. Like whisky, it has subtle banana and vanilla aromas”

It’s a shochu you’ll definitely want to try on the rocks or even with some club soda✨

You can even give it as a gift with two Sengetsu shochu cups packed and ready!(Swipe to next picture for gift set🎁)

Founded over a 110+ years, Sengetsu is known for their Kuma Shochu, which can only be made in Hitoyoshi Kuma.

“We use only carefully selected, high-quality rice and river-bed water from the pure Kuma River, born of the unspoiled nature of Hitoyoshi, to create our shochus.

Sengetsu Shochu is especially popular amongst the locals of Hitoyoshi, the home of Kuma Shochu.” (Sengetsu Shuzo).

Kanpai!

ABV: 25%