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A ceramic sake cup on a cedar masu box with milled rice grains — Junmai is not the lesser sake
How It Works

🍶 The "Polishing" Myth: Why Junmai Isn't Second Best to Junmai Daiginjo

Seimai-buai is a number about rice, not about quality. Daiginjo buys finesse by polishing away...
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Red wine in a decanter with grape skins and seeds on dark stone — That drying feeling has a name
How It Works

Understanding Tannins in Wine: Discover the Perfect Wine for Your Palate

Polyphenols from grape skins, seeds and stems. They give astringency, bitterness and body, act as...
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Three dark unlabelled bottles with cut sugarcane and pouring molasses — Same word, nothing alike
Ageing

Rum Styles: Why Two Bottles With the Same Label Taste Nothing Alike

Colour tells you less than you think — caramel can be added. Past white, gold...
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Four glasses of tequila deepening from clear to dark amber under agave shadow — Ageing costs tequila something
Ageing

Tequila from Blanco to Extra Anejo: What Ageing Actually Does

Agave content first, ageing second. 100% blue agave or mixto; then Blanco up to 60...
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Juniper berries, coriander seed, angelica root and citrus peel before a copper still — The plants are the whole argument
Gin

How Gin Gets Its Flavour: Botanicals and Distillation Explained

Juniper is the legal requirement; everything else is the distiller's choice. Maceration, vapour infusion, compound...
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Macallan TIME : SPACE Sherry Cask and Mastery
Glass Notes
Glass Notes: Macallan's yellow case is out. Why is the red one selling for half? 黃盒上市，紅盒點解跌咗一半？
Neat rows of dark oak whisky casks stacked beneath a wooden warehouse roof, a single dram glass resting on a barrel head — One distillery, its own casks
Producer Guide
Yamazaki and why Japanese distilleries do not swap casks
Fossil flecked grey limestone fragments with tiny oyster shell imprints scattered on dark soil beside a pale tinted glass of white wine — Kimmeridgian rock shapes Chablis
Burgundy
William Fevre, Chablis and what Kimmeridgian rock does