Takara Sake USA INC
Berkeley, CA 94710-1971
Phone: (510) 540-8250
- Cross Street:
- Fourth Street
- Hours:
- Daily 12pm-6pm
Editorial Review for Takara Sake USA INC – by Sarah Levy
In Short
Free sake tasting lures visitors to Takara, but even after five or six cups, they manage to leave with some solid knowledge of the traditional Japanese tipple. The factory's one-room museum includes antique artifacts and an educational wall graphic of cartoon men gleefully stomping fermented rice. Still, most learning happensin the Zen-garden-esque tasting room overlooking the bottling floor, where the Takara hostess explains the complex sake spectrum as she pours and pours.
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Insider Tips
The ExtrasProving that good sake can be green, the tasting room was constructed with reclaimed lumber, and the floor tiles contain glass from recycled sake, beer and whisky bottles. Takara also sells an organic sake.
Fun FactThe name Takara means "treasure from the rice paddy."
User Reviews for Takara Sake USA INC
10/31/2002 Posted by Extreme
Takara Sake tasting room is great. We went here for tastings on Saturday and tried somehting like 5 different Sake drinks. So buzzed after we had to go eat across the street and sit down. :) The museum and history of Sake is actually pretty cool. What is best about this place is the fact that it is in a botteling factory and you can watch them work.
Pros: Sake, location, staff
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