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ROKA 15 – exclusive Junmai Daiginjo for ROKA’s 15th Anniversary

April 26, 2019

5 bottles of ROKA 15 sake

 

London’s renowned contemporary Japanese robatayaki restaurant, ROKA, celebrates its fifteenth anniversary in the summer of 2019. To mark this auspicious occasion the group approached master sake brewers and long-time ROKA collaborators, Tatenokawa, asking them to craft a bespoke sake especially suited to ROKA’s signature robata dishes. ROKA 15 was born. (more…)

Tengu Sake Spirits launched!

September 15, 2018

Tengu Sake Spirits Selection June 18

The wait is finally over! We have launched our premium spirits range. Our initial line up consists of:

Unfortunately we are not currently offering the spirits for sale on tengusake.com but they are available at Master of Malt, Hedonism Wines and Berry Brothers and Rudd. You can find out more details on each of the products over on our spirits page.

IWC Sake Merchant of the Year 2018

July 20, 2018

Tengu Sake IWC Sake Merchant of the Year 2018

Amazing – we did it again!!! Tengu Sake has been awarded IWC Specialist Sake Merchant of the Year 2018!

That’s three year’s running. What an achievement and I’m so proud that all the hard work Tengu Sake has been doing over the years is being recognised. Thank you to everyone: our customers and friends, without you this would not have been possible.

Tengu Sake still adheres to it’s principle tenets:

Here’s to another year of slingin’ quality sake!

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

May 7, 2018

The new GDPR legislation comes into effect on 25th May 2018. We take your privacy and your rights to your data extremely seriously, we always have.

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We’ve also published a Privacy Policy and updated our T&Cs.

Any questions please feel free to contact us!

New Functionality – select your delivery date

January 5, 2018

Order with confidence!

Being an avid internet shopper myself I know it’s difficult to make yourself available to receive goods when you are not sure when they’ll arrive. We’ve worked hard with out logistics provider to develop a system where you can select a specific day for your delivery. (more…)

Triumphant! IWC Sake Merchant of the Year 2017

July 7, 2017

Tengu Sake IWC Sake Merchant of the Year 2017

I am absolutely thrilled and honoured to announce that Tengu Sake has been awarded IWC Specialist Sake Merchant of the Year 2017!

When I started Tengu Sake I set some guiding principles:

I am delighted that the International Wine Challenge has seen fit to award Tengu Sake Specialist Merchant of the Year for the second time running, specifically for playing a “vital role in raising the profile of sake in Britain.”

As ever it was a fun night at the awards ceremony. Great company and amazing to be recognised along with the breweries who did so well this year, here’s to next 😉

IWC Merchant Awards

Tengu Sake Nominated for IWC Sake Merchant of the Year 2017

June 21, 2017

We’re proud to announce, we’ve been

Shortlisted for IWC Sake Merchant of the Year 2017!

Sake Merchant of the Year 2017

We’re, once again, delighted to be shortlisted for this prestigious award. Last year we were lucky enough to win (maybe two years in a row is too much to hope for!)

The awards dinner is on 6th July in London – we’ll find out then.

Read about last year’s awards dinner here

IWC Merchant of the Year for Sake 2016

July 11, 2016

IWC Merchant of the Year for Sake 2016

We won!

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Shortlisted for IWC Specialist Merchant of the Year

June 10, 2016

IWC Specialist Sake Merchant of the Year 2016

Holy moly! We’ve been shortlisted for Specialist Merchant of the Year 2016!

The International Wine Challenge has been judging wine for 33 years and is accepted as the world’s finest and most meticulously judged wine competition. The IWC receives entries from every corner of the globe and employs a vast number of international wine experts to judge the competition. The results of the IWC are covered by the world’s media, reaching over 1.2 billion people worldwide.

It is a great honour to have been shortlisted in these prestigious awards. In 2014 we were shortlisted for “Innovator of the Year” but, unfortunately missed out on the grand prize. This year we hope to bring it home! We’ll find out at the glitzy awards dinner on 7th July.

Of course, a huge thank you must go out to all our customers. Without you we would be nothing.

Thank you for loving sake and thank you for choosing Tengu Sake!

Incidentally, the IWC has been judging sake – alongside wine – for 10 years now. I am lucky enough to have been a sake judge for three years and this year, to celebrate 10 years, the judging was in Japan (as opposed to the usual London venue). More on this is a later blog.

Is Japan finally safeguarding a national treasure?

June 17, 2015

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“What makes sake, sake?”

A good question if I’ve ever heard one, and there are a lot of – some well-defined – answers. However, an interesting aspect is whether, in order to be called sake, it has to be made in Japan or not (for the purposes of this article I’m referring to Japanese sake and emulations thereof). Indeed the Japanese do not even refer to what we call ‘sake‘ as sake at all; instead, they call it nihonshu (日本酒) meaning ‘Japanese alcohol’. (more…)