Better sake comes in two main types: honjozo, to which a small amount of distilled alcohol is added, and junmai, with nothing added.
"The distribution system has improved to the point where it's much easier to get more types of better sake, which whets the appetite for more, which increases demand, which makes the infrastructure even better," said John Gauntner, a sake columnist for the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun in Japan and the go-to consultant for American restaurants that want to emphasize sake.
The Gray Report: The better the sake, the simpler and more elegant, W. Blake Gray reports.
Now the technology has improved to make better premium sake, but the image is stained," she says.
In 1947, Esslin married Renate Gerstenberg, who collaborated with him on many translations and, indeed, was entirely responsible for some that appeared under his (well- known) name - for the sake of better sales.
"Without a doubt, almost all the modern innovations have made sake better," said John Gauntner, a certified master of sake tasting from Kamakura, Japan.
The sooner she comes to that realization, the better, for the sake of the Democratic Party and the sake of both her and her husband's legacies.
"Sake drinkers today have access to something that's far better than the sake their grandfathers drank," Stroud said.
I wanted him to feel better, for his sake.
Schenck, he complained, "loves a fight for its own sake, better than I do".
(For argument's sake, better to leave Wagner out of the equation for now).
