| Often mistakenly
referred to as a Japanese rice wine, sake ( in that it is brewed ) has more in
common with beer than with wine, but, truthfully, it deserves and occupies a category
entirely its own. In the same way that fine wines and
single-malt whiskies offer fascinating diversity to the connoisseur, the great sakes
present an extraordinary range of flavors, tones and variations. Rich in complexity and
tradition, rare examples of this painstakingly fermented rice beverage are only now
becoming available throughout the world, and we at Beekman |
Liquors are proud to
have assembled one of the most extensive stocks of truly remarkable sakes outside
of Japan itself. As the diagram above indicates, sakes
can be broken down into somewhat generalized categories, defined by certain shared
characteristics, although these groupings are by no means rigid and differences, of
course, far outnumber similarities. |
