Our container No. 3 from Japan is here.
18 breweries, 43 sake, 2,442 bottles. The third container since we started bringing sake over ourselves. This page is everything on it, with how many are left.
Tomonobu Ose
Rokka · Aomori
Tadashi Kikuchi
Akita Shurui Seizo · Akita
Genichiro Ooi
Yahiko · Niigata
Kenta Nishikawa
Tosatsuru · Kochi
Koei Shimbo · Shota Takeda
Naeba · Niigata
Our team in Japan
How we source · 1:20
How these bottles get here
My team in Japan and I visit the breweries and taste about fifty sake a month. When we find one we want, we ask the brewery to work with us directly. What they agree to send goes into one container, from Kobe to our warehouse in Los Angeles, and from there to you. No importer, no distributor, no second warehouse in between. That is why almost none of these names are on shelves in America, and why they arrive tasting the way they did in Japan.
Genki Ito
Founder, Palate Project · Los Angeles
Three bottles I want you to try
If you only take three from this container, take these. I picked them from three breweries I know well. Each one is a different kind of sake, and each one is a reason I do this.