A Michelin-starred guide to ‘freshly squeezed’ Shiboritate #sake
A Michelin-starred guide to ‘freshly squeezed’ Shiboritate sakes
A Michelin-starred beverage director teaches The Manual about Shiboritate sake.
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April 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A Michelin-starred guide to ‘freshly squeezed’ Shiboritate #sake
x 🍶 Shiboritate Muroka Nama Genshu Junmai Ginjo
With a bright spring-like sake! Beautiful freshness typical of shiboritate (freshly squeezed / first press) with aromas of cherry blossom, violet, and vanilla. Fragrant and bold, exactly my kind of sake. 😁🌸⭐️
#sake
With a bright spring-like sake! Beautiful freshness typical of shiboritate (freshly squeezed / first press) with aromas of cherry blossom, violet, and vanilla. Fragrant and bold, exactly my kind of sake. 😁🌸⭐️
#sake
April 20, 2024 at 8:55 PM
x 🍶 Shiboritate Muroka Nama Genshu Junmai Ginjo
With a bright spring-like sake! Beautiful freshness typical of shiboritate (freshly squeezed / first press) with aromas of cherry blossom, violet, and vanilla. Fragrant and bold, exactly my kind of sake. 😁🌸⭐️
#sake
With a bright spring-like sake! Beautiful freshness typical of shiboritate (freshly squeezed / first press) with aromas of cherry blossom, violet, and vanilla. Fragrant and bold, exactly my kind of sake. 😁🌸⭐️
#sake
Sake Advent Calendar Day 3: Miyoshikiku "Omachi Shiboritate" junmai ginjo. Made from heirloom Omachi rice, this sake is a nicely balanced acidic brew with big stone fruit flavors. 😍🍶 The cup was pasteurized & bottled just for our calendar! Rigatoni is slightly offended by the label's cat royalty. 👑
December 4, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Sake Advent Calendar Day 3: Miyoshikiku "Omachi Shiboritate" junmai ginjo. Made from heirloom Omachi rice, this sake is a nicely balanced acidic brew with big stone fruit flavors. 😍🍶 The cup was pasteurized & bottled just for our calendar! Rigatoni is slightly offended by the label's cat royalty. 👑
The temperature has finally dropped in Kyushu so it’s time to break out the nabe (hotpot).
Pairing kimchi nabe with nama shiboritate orizake from Yamagata Prefecture. It goes down way too easily. Liquor store owner warned me of this.
@beertengoku.bsky.social was having a similar idea up in Tokyo.
Pairing kimchi nabe with nama shiboritate orizake from Yamagata Prefecture. It goes down way too easily. Liquor store owner warned me of this.
@beertengoku.bsky.social was having a similar idea up in Tokyo.
November 24, 2024 at 10:14 AM
The temperature has finally dropped in Kyushu so it’s time to break out the nabe (hotpot).
Pairing kimchi nabe with nama shiboritate orizake from Yamagata Prefecture. It goes down way too easily. Liquor store owner warned me of this.
@beertengoku.bsky.social was having a similar idea up in Tokyo.
Pairing kimchi nabe with nama shiboritate orizake from Yamagata Prefecture. It goes down way too easily. Liquor store owner warned me of this.
@beertengoku.bsky.social was having a similar idea up in Tokyo.
x 🍶 Yamanokotobuki ‘Good Times’ Nama Shiboritate
With a rich and summery raw first-press sake, bursting with sunny orange / orange blossom and sweet almond flavours. Perfect for a warm day and a good western. 🤠
With a rich and summery raw first-press sake, bursting with sunny orange / orange blossom and sweet almond flavours. Perfect for a warm day and a good western. 🤠
June 23, 2024 at 6:58 PM
x 🍶 Yamanokotobuki ‘Good Times’ Nama Shiboritate
With a rich and summery raw first-press sake, bursting with sunny orange / orange blossom and sweet almond flavours. Perfect for a warm day and a good western. 🤠
With a rich and summery raw first-press sake, bursting with sunny orange / orange blossom and sweet almond flavours. Perfect for a warm day and a good western. 🤠
Great minds think alike! Kimchi nabe and some Fukushima shiboritate orizake for tonight’s dinner. Pics later maybe.
November 24, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Great minds think alike! Kimchi nabe and some Fukushima shiboritate orizake for tonight’s dinner. Pics later maybe.
I need to break up the slow-motion apocalypse posts with something more fun, like #sake! here's some Blue Door Shiboritate from Brooklyn Kura!
February 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I need to break up the slow-motion apocalypse posts with something more fun, like #sake! here's some Blue Door Shiboritate from Brooklyn Kura!
x 🍶 Haginotsuru Shiboritate Nama Tokubetsu Junmai
With a delicious freshly pressed, unpasteurised sake! Light and fizzy with wonderful notes of marzipan, aniseed and violet, and a lingering, bright finish. Great summer sake to pair with a breezy western! 🤠
With a delicious freshly pressed, unpasteurised sake! Light and fizzy with wonderful notes of marzipan, aniseed and violet, and a lingering, bright finish. Great summer sake to pair with a breezy western! 🤠
July 26, 2024 at 9:27 PM
x 🍶 Haginotsuru Shiboritate Nama Tokubetsu Junmai
With a delicious freshly pressed, unpasteurised sake! Light and fizzy with wonderful notes of marzipan, aniseed and violet, and a lingering, bright finish. Great summer sake to pair with a breezy western! 🤠
With a delicious freshly pressed, unpasteurised sake! Light and fizzy with wonderful notes of marzipan, aniseed and violet, and a lingering, bright finish. Great summer sake to pair with a breezy western! 🤠
also, I'm drinking well. How good are train beers followed by fresh shiboritate sake on arrival at the in-laws.
November 13, 2024 at 7:35 AM
also, I'm drinking well. How good are train beers followed by fresh shiboritate sake on arrival at the in-laws.
x 🍶 Niida Honke Odayaka Shiboritate Nama
A true one-of-a-kind sake! 🤩 The 85% rice polish (!) gives this sake an incredible depth, with cocoa, almond and candied fruit notes + powerful but extremely well balanced umami. Very fresh, with a bold aroma and lingering finish. A must try. 😍🍶
A true one-of-a-kind sake! 🤩 The 85% rice polish (!) gives this sake an incredible depth, with cocoa, almond and candied fruit notes + powerful but extremely well balanced umami. Very fresh, with a bold aroma and lingering finish. A must try. 😍🍶
January 28, 2024 at 9:45 PM
x 🍶 Niida Honke Odayaka Shiboritate Nama
A true one-of-a-kind sake! 🤩 The 85% rice polish (!) gives this sake an incredible depth, with cocoa, almond and candied fruit notes + powerful but extremely well balanced umami. Very fresh, with a bold aroma and lingering finish. A must try. 😍🍶
A true one-of-a-kind sake! 🤩 The 85% rice polish (!) gives this sake an incredible depth, with cocoa, almond and candied fruit notes + powerful but extremely well balanced umami. Very fresh, with a bold aroma and lingering finish. A must try. 😍🍶
Shiboritate Nama Genshu by Ide Sake Brewery (2026) - 4½ ⭐
Fresh green pears, right away on the nose. Sweet pears on the palate, with something like overripe melon. Flowers. Bold and present, and my favorite sake from Ide (and maybe of the trip so far).
Junmai Sake...
via @winesky.app
🍶 #sake
Fresh green pears, right away on the nose. Sweet pears on the palate, with something like overripe melon. Flowers. Bold and present, and my favorite sake from Ide (and maybe of the trip so far).
Junmai Sake...
via @winesky.app
🍶 #sake
September 15, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Shiboritate Nama Genshu by Ide Sake Brewery (2026) - 4½ ⭐
Fresh green pears, right away on the nose. Sweet pears on the palate, with something like overripe melon. Flowers. Bold and present, and my favorite sake from Ide (and maybe of the trip so far).
Junmai Sake...
via @winesky.app
🍶 #sake
Fresh green pears, right away on the nose. Sweet pears on the palate, with something like overripe melon. Flowers. Bold and present, and my favorite sake from Ide (and maybe of the trip so far).
Junmai Sake...
via @winesky.app
🍶 #sake
Sake review. Suigei shiboritate, alcohol 17%, polishing rate 55%. Price 1350 yen. Unctuous, slightly oily mouthfeel, some tartness, and some heat on the back end. Not for the faint of heart. Long flavor at the end, you feel you are drinking something.
November 20, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Sake review. Suigei shiboritate, alcohol 17%, polishing rate 55%. Price 1350 yen. Unctuous, slightly oily mouthfeel, some tartness, and some heat on the back end. Not for the faint of heart. Long flavor at the end, you feel you are drinking something.
This shiboritate, along with the two I posted today, are part of Ide’s seasonal sake offerings.
And Ide is, as far as I know, the only brewery in the Fuji Five Lakes area.
And Ide is, as far as I know, the only brewery in the Fuji Five Lakes area.
Shiboritate Nama Genshu by Ide Sake Brewery (2026) - 4½ ⭐
Fresh green pears, right away on the nose. Sweet pears on the palate, with something like overripe melon. Flowers. Bold and present, and my favorite sake from Ide (and maybe of the trip so far).
Junmai Sake...
via @winesky.app
🍶 #sake
Fresh green pears, right away on the nose. Sweet pears on the palate, with something like overripe melon. Flowers. Bold and present, and my favorite sake from Ide (and maybe of the trip so far).
Junmai Sake...
via @winesky.app
🍶 #sake
September 15, 2026 at 7:43 AM
This shiboritate, along with the two I posted today, are part of Ide’s seasonal sake offerings.
And Ide is, as far as I know, the only brewery in the Fuji Five Lakes area.
And Ide is, as far as I know, the only brewery in the Fuji Five Lakes area.
Kamikokoro Toukagen Shiboritate
Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu
Spring Seasonal🌷
Here’s a customer favorite spring #sake that’s back & perfect for Valentines!
By using the yeast from Okayama’s famous white peaches, this sake takes on a peach like aroma! 🍑 (1/3) #japanesesake #日本酒 #お酒
Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu
Spring Seasonal🌷
Here’s a customer favorite spring #sake that’s back & perfect for Valentines!
By using the yeast from Okayama’s famous white peaches, this sake takes on a peach like aroma! 🍑 (1/3) #japanesesake #日本酒 #お酒
February 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Kamikokoro Toukagen Shiboritate
Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu
Spring Seasonal🌷
Here’s a customer favorite spring #sake that’s back & perfect for Valentines!
By using the yeast from Okayama’s famous white peaches, this sake takes on a peach like aroma! 🍑 (1/3) #japanesesake #日本酒 #お酒
Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu
Spring Seasonal🌷
Here’s a customer favorite spring #sake that’s back & perfect for Valentines!
By using the yeast from Okayama’s famous white peaches, this sake takes on a peach like aroma! 🍑 (1/3) #japanesesake #日本酒 #お酒
Kamikokoro Toukagen Shiboritate
Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu
Spring Seasonal🌱
One of your favorite spring #sake is finally back! If you love our peach-flavored sake #kamikokoro 🍑🍶 then you’ll definitely want to try the Spring Seasonal Namazake.
Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu
Spring Seasonal🌱
One of your favorite spring #sake is finally back! If you love our peach-flavored sake #kamikokoro 🍑🍶 then you’ll definitely want to try the Spring Seasonal Namazake.
March 5, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Kamikokoro Toukagen Shiboritate
Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu
Spring Seasonal🌱
One of your favorite spring #sake is finally back! If you love our peach-flavored sake #kamikokoro 🍑🍶 then you’ll definitely want to try the Spring Seasonal Namazake.
Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu
Spring Seasonal🌱
One of your favorite spring #sake is finally back! If you love our peach-flavored sake #kamikokoro 🍑🍶 then you’ll definitely want to try the Spring Seasonal Namazake.
seeing off the year with Honkikuizumi Shiboritate 'Hanazake', the first bottled release from Kitsukura Shuzo this season.
Was lucky enough to spend a weekend in their brewery in Saku, Nagano in November.
Best wishes to you all in 2025, especially all sake brewers.
Was lucky enough to spend a weekend in their brewery in Saku, Nagano in November.
Best wishes to you all in 2025, especially all sake brewers.
December 31, 2024 at 10:12 AM
seeing off the year with Honkikuizumi Shiboritate 'Hanazake', the first bottled release from Kitsukura Shuzo this season.
Was lucky enough to spend a weekend in their brewery in Saku, Nagano in November.
Best wishes to you all in 2025, especially all sake brewers.
Was lucky enough to spend a weekend in their brewery in Saku, Nagano in November.
Best wishes to you all in 2025, especially all sake brewers.
This sake is the very first flow from the press 🍶✨
Arabashiri is fresh, lively, slightly wild, and packed with vibrant aroma straight from the start of brewing season.
One of Japan’s most exciting seasonal sake styles:
www.foodinjapan.org/japan/arabas...
#Sake #Foodie #JapaneseFood
Arabashiri is fresh, lively, slightly wild, and packed with vibrant aroma straight from the start of brewing season.
One of Japan’s most exciting seasonal sake styles:
www.foodinjapan.org/japan/arabas...
#Sake #Foodie #JapaneseFood
Arabashiri Sake Guide: Japan’s Fresh First‑Press Winter Sake
Discover arabashiri, Japan’s lively first‑run winter sake. Learn pressing fractions, nakadori vs shiboritate, taste, and how to drink.
www.foodinjapan.org
May 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
This sake is the very first flow from the press 🍶✨
Arabashiri is fresh, lively, slightly wild, and packed with vibrant aroma straight from the start of brewing season.
One of Japan’s most exciting seasonal sake styles:
www.foodinjapan.org/japan/arabas...
#Sake #Foodie #JapaneseFood
Arabashiri is fresh, lively, slightly wild, and packed with vibrant aroma straight from the start of brewing season.
One of Japan’s most exciting seasonal sake styles:
www.foodinjapan.org/japan/arabas...
#Sake #Foodie #JapaneseFood
@brandondoughan.bsky.social this Catskills Shiboritate is blowing my tiny little mind. I need more! #sake
August 28, 2024 at 9:38 PM
@brandondoughan.bsky.social this Catskills Shiboritate is blowing my tiny little mind. I need more! #sake
Junmai Namazake by Ide Sake Brewery (2026) - 3½ ⭐
Melon, koji, light hint of rice… and I mean, straight-up rice. Something like egg whites. Quite light after the Shiboritate Nama Genshu 2014, but very clean.
Junmai Namazake Sake from Fujikawaguchiko
via @winesky.app
🍶 #sake
Melon, koji, light hint of rice… and I mean, straight-up rice. Something like egg whites. Quite light after the Shiboritate Nama Genshu 2014, but very clean.
Junmai Namazake Sake from Fujikawaguchiko
via @winesky.app
🍶 #sake
September 15, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Junmai Namazake by Ide Sake Brewery (2026) - 3½ ⭐
Melon, koji, light hint of rice… and I mean, straight-up rice. Something like egg whites. Quite light after the Shiboritate Nama Genshu 2014, but very clean.
Junmai Namazake Sake from Fujikawaguchiko
via @winesky.app
🍶 #sake
Melon, koji, light hint of rice… and I mean, straight-up rice. Something like egg whites. Quite light after the Shiboritate Nama Genshu 2014, but very clean.
Junmai Namazake Sake from Fujikawaguchiko
via @winesky.app
🍶 #sake
D.C! I will be in you Monday Sept 8th!
Join me @ James Beard Award winning chef Masako Morishita. It’s her delicious food paired with my Brooklyn Kura #sake at Perry’s
Tix: Check out Perry's x Brooklyn Kura Collab Dinner on Resy.
Look at that menu! I’m bringing shiboritate!
Join me @ James Beard Award winning chef Masako Morishita. It’s her delicious food paired with my Brooklyn Kura #sake at Perry’s
Tix: Check out Perry's x Brooklyn Kura Collab Dinner on Resy.
Look at that menu! I’m bringing shiboritate!
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August 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
D.C! I will be in you Monday Sept 8th!
Join me @ James Beard Award winning chef Masako Morishita. It’s her delicious food paired with my Brooklyn Kura #sake at Perry’s
Tix: Check out Perry's x Brooklyn Kura Collab Dinner on Resy.
Look at that menu! I’m bringing shiboritate!
Join me @ James Beard Award winning chef Masako Morishita. It’s her delicious food paired with my Brooklyn Kura #sake at Perry’s
Tix: Check out Perry's x Brooklyn Kura Collab Dinner on Resy.
Look at that menu! I’m bringing shiboritate!
acidity and pleasant light flavor. Aomori's "Hanafubuki" rice, and "Mahorobajun" yeast produces a gorgeous aroma and beautiful acidity.”
From Aomori Prefecture, Jyoku Shiboritate Okojyo is also popular as a great food pairing sake:
From Aomori Prefecture, Jyoku Shiboritate Okojyo is also popular as a great food pairing sake:
April 16, 2026 at 3:59 AM
acidity and pleasant light flavor. Aomori's "Hanafubuki" rice, and "Mahorobajun" yeast produces a gorgeous aroma and beautiful acidity.”
From Aomori Prefecture, Jyoku Shiboritate Okojyo is also popular as a great food pairing sake:
From Aomori Prefecture, Jyoku Shiboritate Okojyo is also popular as a great food pairing sake:
🍶🌺 Our casual Aloha Friday Sake Tasting is today (06/05)!
We’ll be tasting through 2 seasonal sake: Chikurin Otoro Junmai Ginjo Nama & Harushika Extra Dry Shiboritate!
Kanpai! #nextstopsakeshop #saketasting #sake #nihonshu #honolulu #kakaako
*Must be 21+
We’ll be tasting through 2 seasonal sake: Chikurin Otoro Junmai Ginjo Nama & Harushika Extra Dry Shiboritate!
Kanpai! #nextstopsakeshop #saketasting #sake #nihonshu #honolulu #kakaako
*Must be 21+
June 5, 2026 at 9:32 PM
🍶🌺 Our casual Aloha Friday Sake Tasting is today (06/05)!
We’ll be tasting through 2 seasonal sake: Chikurin Otoro Junmai Ginjo Nama & Harushika Extra Dry Shiboritate!
Kanpai! #nextstopsakeshop #saketasting #sake #nihonshu #honolulu #kakaako
*Must be 21+
We’ll be tasting through 2 seasonal sake: Chikurin Otoro Junmai Ginjo Nama & Harushika Extra Dry Shiboritate!
Kanpai! #nextstopsakeshop #saketasting #sake #nihonshu #honolulu #kakaako
*Must be 21+
Throwback—well, not Thursday but Tuesday is just as fun😆🍶
We’ve had some great seasonal #sake this past month, including our annual #hakkaisan Shiboritate Nama Genshu!
It comes once in Spring and is already almost gone👋🏼
For just $24.95, this namazake is freshly pressed…
We’ve had some great seasonal #sake this past month, including our annual #hakkaisan Shiboritate Nama Genshu!
It comes once in Spring and is already almost gone👋🏼
For just $24.95, this namazake is freshly pressed…
May 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Throwback—well, not Thursday but Tuesday is just as fun😆🍶
We’ve had some great seasonal #sake this past month, including our annual #hakkaisan Shiboritate Nama Genshu!
It comes once in Spring and is already almost gone👋🏼
For just $24.95, this namazake is freshly pressed…
We’ve had some great seasonal #sake this past month, including our annual #hakkaisan Shiboritate Nama Genshu!
It comes once in Spring and is already almost gone👋🏼
For just $24.95, this namazake is freshly pressed…
We ran outside earlier today to make use of the 3 minutes of sunshine at the shop to get a (hopefully!) bright picture of our Spring Seasonal #sake:
Narutotai Shiboritate
Junmai Nama Genshu
Back by popular demand!
All the way from Tokushima Prefecture, this namazake is the…
Narutotai Shiboritate
Junmai Nama Genshu
Back by popular demand!
All the way from Tokushima Prefecture, this namazake is the…
March 24, 2026 at 5:04 AM
We ran outside earlier today to make use of the 3 minutes of sunshine at the shop to get a (hopefully!) bright picture of our Spring Seasonal #sake:
Narutotai Shiboritate
Junmai Nama Genshu
Back by popular demand!
All the way from Tokushima Prefecture, this namazake is the…
Narutotai Shiboritate
Junmai Nama Genshu
Back by popular demand!
All the way from Tokushima Prefecture, this namazake is the…