Events

Coco Vino invites you to join a Zoom sake tasting with sake specialist Kerry Tamura from World Sake Imports. Hosted by Kurtis Wells, the tasting will feature four craft sakes…

Aloha! Yes, we are off to the land of Big Waves, Rainbows, Pineapples and… Sake??? Yes, Sake. Thirty years after Honolulu Sake Brewery shut its doors, sake-brewing has returned to…

Nestled between misty mountains and the Sea of Japan, Fukui Prefecture evokes in visitors a sense of ancient Japan. Its water falls first as rain on the triple peaks of…

The Aizu region of Fukushima Prefecture is one of the great brewing regions of Japan, with Aizu-Wakamatsu as its center. Here Nagurayama Brewing Company makes sakes in the classic Fukushima…

Let’s head to Akita Prefecture in Japan’s cold and snowy north. Famous for its rice, lovely women and pure water, the region until recently consumed more sake per capita than…

When someone mentions Kyoto, historic temples, Gion and kaiseki cuisine often come to mind. But on our next journey we head to the rustic northwest of Kyoto Prefecture on the…

This month we travel to Ishikawa Prefecture, home base of the influential Noto Toji brewers guild. The Yoshida family has made sake in Yamashina village since 1870, and today their…

We invite you to join us on a sake excursion to “The Roof of Japan,” Nagano prefecture. Our destination is Suwa, nestled in the Japanese Alps, where Miyasaka Brewing Company…

As we continue our exploration of Japan’s sake-brewing culture, we travel to Miyagi Prefecture in the northern Tohoku region. Uchigasaki Brewing Company is located in the town of Tomiya, an…

Join us on our next sake adventure—to Hiroshima and the famous brewing town of Saijo. Here we’ll meet the Maegaki family, rice wholesalers who transitioned into sake brewing at the…