May 14, 2020
What is the future of sake? The past is easy to talk about with sake. Its origins stretch back millennia, almost every single brewery making sake today has a history of at least a century, many stretching back hundreds of years.... UNFILTERED Archives: Japan
Iwao Niizawa: Quiet Revolutionary of the Sake World
What is the future of sake? The past is easy to talk about with sake. Its origins stretch back millennia, almost every single brewery making sake today has a history of at least a century, many stretching back hundreds of years....
Resilience in the Face of Adversity: The First 500 Years of Kenbishi Brewery
March 30, 2020
Above: Nihonbashi. Print by Utagawa Hiroshige. Japan is a nation uniquely familiar with disaster, and it informs so much of their culture and outlook on life. Being perched at the end of the earth on a geologic fault line, earthquakes are a... An In-Depth Shochu Seminar with the ‘Young Guns of Miyazaki’
February 25, 2020
While Japan has been getting a lot of attention recently for its excellent whisky, not many people outside of the country are familiar with its most popular spirit: shochu. Shochu (pronounced show-chew) is Japan’s native spirit with hundreds of years... “The Skurnik Family Creates A Force In Wine” – Market Watch
February 6, 2020
We are honored to be recognized on the cover of Market Watch to kick-off 2020. The full story highlights our Long Island beginnings, recent growth in distribution to include three new states, insights from the distribution and imports side of... The Old Ways: Bodaimoto, Kimoto, & Yamahai
January 28, 2020
In October, we held an “old style” sake seminar with expert and former sake brewer Justin Potts and former Master Brewer Tomoyuki Minami. Tomoyuki is one of the leaders of the shizenha style of sake that emphasizes connection to agriculture, avoiding treating or altering sake after... New to California: Our Japanese Sake Portfolio
January 9, 2020
Skurnik Wines is pleased to announce the addition of a premium Japanese sake portfolio to California! The vast world of sake making covers the entire Japanese archipelago and has a rich history stretching back at least 1400 years. Just as... Welcome to…
December 6, 2019
In July 2019, we announced our acquisition of Vintner Select, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based fine wine distributor. With this acquisition, we have increased our direct wholesale distribution network to eight states, adding Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana to our existing stable of... Before the Bottle, Growing Sake Rice in Japan
October 17, 2019
Many know rice as one of the great staple crops of the world; it provides essential calories for more than half of the world’s population, and outside of Asia it is one of the fastest-growing foods. Japan has a particularly... The Chu-Hai: Our Favorite Cocktail That You’ve Never Heard Of
October 9, 2019
Chu-Hai — don’t respond with gesundheit! By now you must have read our Intro to Shochu: Japan’s Terroir-Driven Spirit. Today, we’re taking a deep dive into one of Japan’s (and now our) favorite drinks: the Chu-Hai — a shochu highball....