Sam Harrop 'Discovering Sake' with Wine-colored Glasses
Sake's spread continues...
A joint venture between the International Wine Challenge, Hedonism Wines(London), Sakura Masamune, and the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries of Japan have produced this short film showing international wine expert Sam Harrop, as he travels to Kyoto, Nada (Hyogo), and Niigata to learn more about sake from the source. He visits Sakura Masamune, among other kura, and stops to smell the moromi.
A wine master, Harrop comes to sake from a taste and knowledge base that is wine-focused, and the film is replete with Harrop's connections between the two beverages. Though this is how he relates to sake, certainly not how everyone does, and if you can put these continuing comparisons (and Mr. Harrop's eagerness to make them) aside, the film does a pretty good giving the basics about sake.
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An article by Anna Greenhous at Harper's gives us some conext on the whole thing here.