Sake Sommelier Satomi Furugaki Goes Big on Denshu
Feb 08
This month’s TrueSake.com newsletter “Spotlight” features my friend Satomi Furugaki, “one of the up and coming sake influencers” in the US.
True Sake’s Beau Timken first met Satomi Furugaki when he was a judge for the International Sake Sommelier Competition in LA in 2006. She was the point person for the entire event and he quickly learned that Satomi has a sake soul and a Dai Ginjo heart. Recently, Beau asked her to critique some Izakaya’s (sake pubs) in LA – this will be featured in his March Newsletter – and asked her if she would put her sake sommelier and sake aficionado skills to test by writing a little piece on her favorite Junmai sake. Satomi is a Shugaku Kohshi (sake instructor), but more importantly she is a drinker of sake and that is my favorite quality about this wonderful voice in the sake industry.
Satomi’s review on the ultra-popular Tokubetsu Junmai called Denshu
