This advanced sake experience is designed for travelers who want to go beyond standard tastings and explore how different approaches to sake brewing create dramatically different flavors.

The experience begins by covering the essential basics of sake. You’ll learn how sake is made, how to understand key categories, and how to read sake bottles and labels, so everyone starts with the same foundation—even if you are new to sake.

From there, the tasting moves into advanced territory. You’ll taste and compare carefully selected sake that highlight different brewing philosophies, including sake made with minimal rice polishing that focuses on the natural vitality of the rice, natural sake and how it differs from conventional styles, and sake brewed using modern production methods.

You’ll also explore sake made with traditional or ancient techniques, sake matured with wood that reflects Japan’s cultural heritage, and unique styles where sake itself is used as part of the brewing process. Through guided comparison, you’ll learn how choices in ingredients, methods, and philosophy directly shape aroma, texture, and flavor.

This experience is not about memorizing terms or tasting rare bottles for their own sake. It is about understanding why sake tastes the way it does and developing a deeper, more confident way to evaluate and appreciate sake.