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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2021/1/5/why-is-sake-so-expensive</loc>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Why is Sake so expensive?</image:title>
      <image:caption>EUR 12.00 for a good bottle of ginjo!? Not in Europe</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Why is Sake so expensive? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Brewery giants use automated processes and cheaper ingredients to produce large volumes at low cost.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Why is Sake so expensive?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Making high quality sake is not cheap. Production cost in JPY/liter</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Why is Sake so expensive?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Many breweries do everything by hand – from carrying rice bags to applying labels.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>With most sake, you get what you pay for.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Why is Sake so expensive? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Limited releases and super-popular brands like Juyondai are best enjoyed at izakaya.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2020/6/kijoshu</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Kijoushu: Sweet ‘dessert’ sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>A small bottle of kijoshu and various sweet wines.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Kijoushu: Sweet ‘dessert’ sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sweet wines like French Sauternes not only look like gold, they commend equally high prices, too.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Kijoushu: Sweet ‘dessert’ sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kijoushu’s sweetness also works well with cheese.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2020/12/31/sparkling-sake</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-10-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sparkling Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>Caution when opening! Sake from Kaze no Mori is often a bit fizzy.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sparkling Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>Artificial carbonation is cheap and easy, but produces relatively big bubbles that don’t stay for long.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sparkling Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sparkling sake that passes the strict inspection gets a holographic sticker.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sparkling Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>The sediment is clearly visible in this bottle of sparkling nigori (cloudy) sake from Tsuki no Katsura.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sparkling Sake - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>This sparkling sake is clear and almost colourless, with a nice amount of small bubbles.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sparkling Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>You can see small bubbles rising to the surface in this cloudy (nigori) sake.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sparkling Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>Over four years (2016-20), the Japan Awasake Association has grown from nine to 25 members, uniting many well-known breweries from all over Japan.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sparkling Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>Champagne bottles ready for dégorgement. You can see the frozen lump of sediment in the bottle neck, just below the cap. (Photo: Champagne Deville, CC-BY-SA-4.0)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sparkling Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>Could sparkling sake replace Champagne as the celebratory drink of choice?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sparkling Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mizubasho Pure from Nagai Shuzo doesn’t need to hide in comparison with high-quality sparkling wines. The Nagai Brewery was also a founding member of the Japan Awasake Foundation.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/sugidama</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-24</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - What's that green ball?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Can you spot the suigdama in this picture?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - What's that green ball?</image:title>
      <image:caption>A sugidama outside a sake bar.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2020/10/27/cookbooks</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - The best Japanese Cookbooks</image:title>
      <image:caption>Of course, sake is an essential ingredient in the Japanese kitchen.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - The best Japanese Cookbooks</image:title>
      <image:caption>Elizabeth Andoh’s thoughtful approach to Japanese cooking has made her books modern classics.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5993f14203596ee46fcf2764/1603727792928-PPTS8KITGQYHCKB0P0JT/Hoshino-Japanese_homestyle_cooking.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - The best Japanese Cookbooks</image:title>
      <image:caption>Don’t judge this book by its cover! It’s one of the most useful basic cookbooks, containing all the classics of a Japanese home kitchen.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - The best Japanese Cookbooks</image:title>
      <image:caption>A thick book about a simple art.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Roasted boar shoulder for Sunday dinner?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - The best Japanese Cookbooks</image:title>
      <image:caption>What’s kuzu again? – Richard Hosking’s A Dictionary of Japanese Food has all the answers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - The best Japanese Cookbooks</image:title>
      <image:caption>Authentic and fun: Tokyo Cult Recipes is a great introduction to modern Japanese cooking.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - The best Japanese Cookbooks</image:title>
      <image:caption>For the aspiring kaiseki-chef, there’s no way around the Japanese Culinary Academy’s Complete Japanese Cuisine.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - The best Japanese Cookbooks</image:title>
      <image:caption>Almost as good as a trip through Tokyo’s nightlife: Mark Robinson takes you on a tour of his favourite Japanese pubs.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2020/10/21/what-is-junmai-sake-1</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-24</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - What is Junmai Sake?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Junmai is more than just one type of sake. The term can be applied regardless of polishing ratio.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - What is Junmai Sake?</image:title>
      <image:caption>It’s junmai, but is it better?</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2020/4/19/what-does-by-on-a-sake-label-stand-for</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - What does BY on a sake label stand for?</image:title>
      <image:caption>The label on the left shows both the year this sake was brewed (December 2018) and when it was released (January 2020).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - What does BY on a sake label stand for?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Some breweries have started using the “normal” Gregorian calendar.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (now Prime Minister), announcing the new imperial era, "Reiwa", to reporters. (Photo: 内閣官房内閣広報室. CC BY 4.0)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2019/9/16/shopping-guide-tokyo</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Shopping Guide: Tokyo</image:title>
      <image:caption>The JSS Information Center is a good place to start your sake-journey. (Photo courtesy of JSS)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Shopping Guide: Tokyo</image:title>
      <image:caption>An excellent selection of premium brands and a few more unusual bottles, all kept at perfect temperature at Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Shopping Guide: Tokyo</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hand-painted signs announce seasonal specialties at a sake shop in Yokohama.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Shopping Guide: Tokyo</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kimijimaya in Ginza. (Photo Courtesy of Ginza Kimijimaya)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Shopping Guide: Tokyo</image:title>
      <image:caption>Supermarkets are there to fulfill your daily needs — with big boxes as well as small “one-cups.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Shopping Guide: Tokyo</image:title>
      <image:caption>View over the city from Tokyo Skytree.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Shopping Guide: Tokyo</image:title>
      <image:caption>The bright and welcoming main room at the JSS Information Center. (Photo courtesy of JSS)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Shopping Guide: Tokyo</image:title>
      <image:caption>The sake shelf at the biggest duty-free shop in Haneda Airport’s international terminal contains the usual suspects from big brands and a few novelty bottles.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Imadeya Ginza. The text on the left is from a poem by Chinese poet Li Bai ‘Drinking Alone by Moonlight’.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Hasegawa in Azabu.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Some unusual one-cup sakes at Kura in Marugoto Nippon near Senso-Ji Temple.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mitsukoshi’s main store in the Nihonbashi neighborhood, Tokyo.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - A Closer Look: Rice</image:title>
      <image:caption>Unpolished grains of Hyogo-grown Yamada Nishiki. If you look closely, you can make out the white, starchy shinpaku at the center of the grain. Photo: Simon-sake [CC BY-SA]</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - A Closer Look: Rice</image:title>
      <image:caption>This Junmai Ginjo from Kyoto brewery Tama no Hikari proudly displays the name of the rice variety, Iwai, on the front label. (Photo: Tama no Hikari)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - A Closer Look: Rice</image:title>
      <image:caption>The seedlings are planted with the help of a specialized machine</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - A Closer Look: Rice</image:title>
      <image:caption>The rice-growing year starts with seedling preparation in March/April and ends with harvesting and drying the rice in late September/October. (Click to enlarge)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - A Closer Look: Rice</image:title>
      <image:caption>Farming has always been hard work. “Rice Cultivation through the Four Seasons” from a pair of six-panel folding screens (ca. 1700–1725), LACMA</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - A Closer Look: Rice</image:title>
      <image:caption>Older varieties tend to grow much taller. Yamada Nishiki (on the very left) also has very long stalks that can reach up to 130cm, Gohyakumangoku (fourth from the left) is much shorter. Number three from the right is Koshihikari, a popular variety of table rice, that grows shorter than most sake rice. Photo: Takuya Oikawa [CC BY-SA], edited</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - A Closer Look: Rice</image:title>
      <image:caption>The starchy core of the grain (shinpaku in Japanese) can have different shapes that affect how much the rice can be polished. (Click to enlarge)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - A Closer Look: Rice</image:title>
      <image:caption>Grains of Yamada Nishiki rice. Unpolished brown rice; polished to 45%; and polished to 23%. The sample was kindly provided by Asahi Shuzo.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - A Closer Look: Rice</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rice paddies are an important part of the ecosystem and home to many insects, birds and other animals. (Photo: flickr/harum.koh CC BY SA 2.0)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - A Closer Look: Rice</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Each variety behaves a little differently and the brewery workers have to adjust their techniques and timing accordingly. (Photo: Adobe Stock)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2019/10/30/sake-brewing-water</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-16</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Brewers distinguish between brewing water and bottling water. Click to enlarge</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - A Closer Look: Water</image:title>
      <image:caption>Water is abundant in almost all regions of Japan.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - A Closer Look: Water</image:title>
      <image:caption>Monten Purple Label Junmai Ginjo is purposely made with water from a different source than the rest of the company’s lineup.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An illustrated map with the breweries of Nadagogo, ‘The five townships of Nada’. The source of Miyamizu is visible next to the red building on the right. (Image courtesy of the Nadagogo Brewers Association.)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Breweries in Fushimi, Kyoto.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Average water hardness in Japan by prefectures, measured as mg/l HCO₃. Note that a brewery could use a local source of water that differs from the average hardness level shown here. Click to enlarge</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2019/10/30/sake-books</loc>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2019/10/12/hot-or-not</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-16</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>A quick overview over the suitable temperatures for some styles of sake.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2019/10/11/is-sake-vegan</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-02-22</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>All of Nanbu Bijin’s sake can now bear the ‘Vegan” mark. Photo courtesy of Nanbu Bijin Co, LTD. (via press release)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Is Sake Vegan?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo: Hachinohoe Shuzo</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Is Sake Vegan?</image:title>
      <image:caption>If you want to be 110% sure your sake is vegan, look for these marks.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Is Sake Vegan?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo courtesy Nagai Sake inc. (via press release)</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2017/9/7/sake-and-climate-change</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-05-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sake and Climate Change</image:title>
      <image:caption>暑い、ね！(It’s hot, isn’t it). According to recent projections, Japan can expect the average temperature to rise by 2.1–4ºC</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sake and Climate Change</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sake rice plants grow much taller than regular table rice, making them prone to fall over.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sake and Climate Change</image:title>
      <image:caption>In Japan, rice is famed in flooded paddies that are also home to frogs, birds and insects.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sake and Climate Change</image:title>
      <image:caption>Annual surface temperature anomalies in Japan (Japan Meteorological Agency)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2019/10/9/sweet-or-dry</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-01-16</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2019/8/21/matsubratislava</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-12-16</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Mutsu Hassen is especially popular with customers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Matsu Bratislava</image:title>
      <image:caption>Some of the sakes currently available by the glass.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Matsu Bratislava</image:title>
      <image:caption>Matsu is located in the old town of Bratislava</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Matsu Bratislava</image:title>
      <image:caption>Veronika and Kaoru have been running Matsu for one and a half years, but only recently added sake to their menu.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Something for every taste. A little flyer next to each bottle contains tasting notes in Slovakian and English.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Matsu Bratislava</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bratislava has more to offer than cobbled streets and pretty views.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Just a few hundred meters from the beaten tourist paths, it’s like finding a hidden gem.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Matsu Bratislava</image:title>
      <image:caption>Matsu’s house cocktail: a harmonious blend of sake, tonic water and a salt-cured cherry blossom that tastes as good as it looks.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Yuki Otoko (Snow man) is named after a friendly mythical creature from the mountains of Niigata.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Most customers come for the coffee or a matcha latte and then find out about the sake.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Hachibei from Mie Prefecture was also served at the G7 summit in 2016</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Little details add a Japanese touch</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Deciphering Sake Labels</image:title>
      <image:caption>These two graphs give an indication of sweetness/dryness and intensity. This sake is on the dry side and fairly light.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Deciphering Sake Labels</image:title>
      <image:caption>(click image to enlarge) ➊Brand name, ➋Brewery name ➌Category (Here: Junmai Dai-ginjo), ➍alcohol content, ingredients, legal information ➎’Japanese Sake’</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Deciphering Sake Labels</image:title>
      <image:caption>This sake should be enjoyed in a wine glass at 5–15ºC.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Deciphering Sake Labels</image:title>
      <image:caption>A sticker like this is often displayed on unpasteurized sake.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>See also: What does BY stand for?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Deciphering Sake Labels</image:title>
      <image:caption>This table indicates the recommended serving temperature. In this case ‘chilled’ is the best option.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This example shows both the production date (製造年月) —in this case actually the bottling date(瓶詰年月)— and the shipping date (出荷年月) below. This particular sake was brewed in December 2018 and then stored at the brewery until January 2020.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Deciphering Sake Labels</image:title>
      <image:caption>If you know where to look, it’s all there. Ingredients: Rice, Koji, Alcohol. Rice polishing rate: 70%, Alcohol 15%.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This daiginjo is very light (淡麗) and perfectly balanced between dryness and sweetness. It is best enjoyed chilled (冷).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Premium sake is classified by rice polishing ratio. (Click to enlarge)</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2021-02-06</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>(Empty) sake barrels at a shinto shrine.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A bottle of Kimoto sake.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2017/9/5/seasonal-styles-of-sake</loc>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2019/8/8/sake-aroma-and-flavour</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-20</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sake Aroma and Flavour</image:title>
      <image:caption>Light and clear sake is a good match with fresh seafood and works as a palate cleanser.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sake Aroma and Flavour</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sake brewers and professionals use a special standardised cup to evaluate clarity, colour, aroma and flavour.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Sake Aroma and Flavour</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sake that has not been store properly can develop off-flavours and aromas. Cloudiness, floating spots (photo) are also an indication of a faulty sake.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Banana, fig, nuts and grains are typical notes you can get from a junmai sake.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>As sake ages, the colour changes from clear to golden, then amber and eventually brown.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Umami is naturally present in many foods like tomatoes, mushrooms cured meats, cheese, soy sauce. MSG (monosodium glutamate) is pure umami seasoning. Sake, especially if made with less-polished grains, contains many of the same amino acids that are responsible for umami taste.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Any of these glasses would be perfect for sake.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A professional tasting cup with ‘snake eye’ pattern. (Photo: Adobe)</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2019/8/30/where-to-buy-sake</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-23</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2017/9/6/main-types-of-japanese-sake</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-14</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>The polishing rate for this honjozo sake is 70%, meaning the grains were milled to 70% of their original volume.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Main Types of Japanese Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>In the polishing process, the outer parts of the grain containing proteins and lipids are milled away, leaving a core of pure starch.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This junmai daiginjo ‘Vogue’ from Tatenokawa in Yamagata Prefecture is a good example of a fruity, aromatic daiginjo. (Photo: sakeguide.net)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Learn about Japanese Sake - Main Types of Japanese Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hakkaisan’s futsushu is a well-known brand that’s easily available in most markets. (Photo: Hakkaisan)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/articles/2019/8/9/2e2s5lus04a1tqj9fcuoigso3ik9sb</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-11-20</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Rice steaming is one of the first steps. (Photo: Adobe)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Awasake: Sprudelnder Sake-Spaß</image:title>
      <image:caption>Champagnerflaschen vor dem dégorgement. Im Flaschenhals kann man den gefrorenen Klumpen Hefe sehen. (Foto: Champagne Deville, CC-BY-SA-4.0)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Awasake: Sprudelnder Sake-Spaß</image:title>
      <image:caption>Das Imprägnierverfahren, wobei dem Sake künstlich Kohlendioxid zugesetzt wird, ist günstig und einfach – produziert aber relativ große Bläschen, die schnell wieder verschwinden.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Awasake: Sprudelnder Sake-Spaß</image:title>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Awasake: Sprudelnder Sake-Spaß</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sake der die strenge Inspektion besteht, bekommt einen Hologramm-Sticker.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Awasake: Sprudelnder Sake-Spaß</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mizubasho Pure von der Brauerei Nagai Shuzo braucht den Vergleich mit hochwertigem Schaumwein nicht zu scheuen. Nagai Shuzo ist auch Gründungsmitglied der Japan Awasake Association.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Awasake: Sprudelnder Sake-Spaß</image:title>
      <image:caption>Vorsicht beim Öffnen! Sake der Marke Kaze no Mori oft oft leicht kohlensäurehaltig.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Awasake: Sprudelnder Sake-Spaß</image:title>
      <image:caption>In dieser Flasche Nigori (trüber) Sake von Tsuki no Katsura kann man deutlich das Sediment am Boden sehen.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Awasake: Sprudelnder Sake-Spaß</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bei diesem trüben Nigorisake kann man die kleinen Bläschen an der Oberfläche gut sehen.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Awasake: Sprudelnder Sake-Spaß</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sparkling Sake oder Champagner zum feierlichen Anstoßen?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Awasake: Sprudelnder Sake-Spaß</image:title>
      <image:caption>In vier Jahren (2016–20) ist die Japan Awasake Association von neun auf 25 Mitglieder gewachsen und vereint viele bekannte Brauereien aus ganz Japan.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/deutsch/2017/9/7/sake-glaeser</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-01-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Wie serviert man Sake?</image:title>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Wie serviert man Sake?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jedes dieser Gläser kann für Sake verwendet werden.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Wie serviert man Sake?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ein professioneller Verkostungsbecher mit “Schlangenauge”. (Foto: Adobe)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Wie serviert man Sake?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Verschiedene Sakebecher aus japanischer Keramik in einer Sammelbox.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/deutsch/2019/10/11/ist-sake-vegan</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-14</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Ist Sake vegan?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Alle Nanbu Bijin Produkte dürfen jetzt das Zeichen “Vegan” tragen. (Pressefoto von Nanbu Bijin Co, LTD.)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Ist Sake vegan?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Foto: Hachinohoe Shuzo</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Ist Sake vegan?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Falls ihr sicher sein wollt, dass euer Sake 100% vegan ist, schaut nach diesen Labels.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Ist Sake vegan?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Foto von Nagai Sake inc. (aus einer Pressemitteilung)</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/deutsch/2019/9/16/shopping-guide-tokyo-hbn8t</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-01-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Einkaufsführer: Tokio</image:title>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Einkaufsführer: Tokio</image:title>
      <image:caption>Aussicht über die Stadt vom Tokyo Skytree..</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Einkaufsführer: Tokio</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hier fängt unsere Reise an: das JSS Information Center biete viele Informationen. (Foto: JSS)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Einkaufsführer: Tokio</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hasegawa in Azabu.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Das Stammhaus von Mitsukoshi in Nihonbashi, Tokyo.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Handgemalte Schilder mit Werbung für neu eingetroffenen Sake in einem Geschäft in Yokohama.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Einkaufsführer: Tokio</image:title>
      <image:caption>Imadeya Ginza. der Text links stammt vom chinesischen Dichter Li Bai ‘Drinking Alone by Moonlight’.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kimijimaya in Ginza. (Foto: Ginza Kimijimaya)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Die Sakeauswahl im größten Duty-Free-Geschäft am Flughafen Haneda bietet bekannte Marken und etwas Kitsch, aber wenig interessantes für Sake-Fans.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sake für den alltäglichen Bedarf in einem Supermarkt in Tokio — große Kartons und kleine “one-cups.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Einkaufsführer: Tokio</image:title>
      <image:caption>Eine hervorragende Auswahl an Premium-Marken und auch einige ungewöhnliche Flaschen, perfekt temperiert im Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Einkaufsführer: Tokio</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ungewöhnlichen Sake in kleinen Größen gibt es bei Kura im Marugoto Nippon, ganz in der Nähe des berühmten Senso-Ji Tempels.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Einkaufsführer: Tokio</image:title>
      <image:caption>Das JSS Information Center ist unter anderem mit einem großen Holzfass, wie es früher zum Brauen verwendet wurde, dekoriert . (Foto: JSS)</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/deutsch/2019/9/5/sake-labels-dn7xd</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-14</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5993f14203596ee46fcf2764/1565351450100-XT7S5W9ML2PS5T2F97YE/polishing+pct.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Wie lese ich Sake-Etiketten?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Premium Sake wird hauptsächlich nach dem Poliergrad der Reiskörner eingestuft.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5993f14203596ee46fcf2764/1575299594965-GCL5NVN2ER1NID1R4VI4/Sakefllasche.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Wie lese ich Sake-Etiketten?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Wenn man weiß wonach man schauen muss, ist alles zu finden. Zutaten: Reis, Koji, Alkohol. Poliergrad: 70%, Alkoholgehalt 15%.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Wie lese ich Sake-Etiketten?</image:title>
      <image:caption>A sticker like this is often displayed on unpasteurized sake.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5993f14203596ee46fcf2764/1567691590570-O4WR9RXCE9T4C29U9KVG/sake-label-explained.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Wie lese ich Sake-Etiketten?</image:title>
      <image:caption>(Zum Vergrößern anklicken) ➊Markenname, ➋Name der Brauerei ➌Kategorie (Hier ein Junmai Dai-ginjo), ➍Alkoholgehalt, Zutaten, gesetzlich vorgeschriebener Warnhinweis ➎’Japanischer Sake’</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5993f14203596ee46fcf2764/1568110267614-5UEES95DZST8Y3GZHEB8/temperature%25402x.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Wie lese ich Sake-Etiketten?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Die Tabelle gibt Vorschläge zur optimalen Serviertemperatur. In diesem Fall ist ‘gekühlt’ die beste Option.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5993f14203596ee46fcf2764/1568110285803-ZJO6OHPRGI3HX7RHLAUZ/taste%25402x.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Wie lese ich Sake-Etiketten?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Diese beiden Graphen zeigen eine Süß/Trocken-Skala und die Intensität. Dieser Sake ist auf der trockenen Seite und recht leicht.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Wie lese ich Sake-Etiketten?</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/deutsch/2017/9/6/sake-kategorien</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-01-06</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5993f14203596ee46fcf2764/1575466911276-0D1B5YP0FFOHJ9I3HU2Z/DSCF7091-ed01.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Klassifizierung von Sake</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5993f14203596ee46fcf2764/1575450409346-P8CPBIV7PF7H9RIS4XFV/Poliergrad.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Klassifizierung von Sake</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5993f14203596ee46fcf2764/1565697601205-YW1Y60JS1S38K8KOTZXY/tatenokawa.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Klassifizierung von Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dieser Junmai Daiginjo ‘Vogue’ von Tatenokawa aus der Präfektur Yamagata ist ein gutes Beispiel für einen fruchtig-aromatischen Daiginjo. (Foto: sakeguide.net)</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5993f14203596ee46fcf2764/1565343480058-8JAD5ML9V1ZKLL7TWQGD/polishing.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Klassifizierung von Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>Beim Polieren werden die äußeren Schichten des Korns entfernt, so dass nur das “Herz” aus Stärke übrig bleibt.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5993f14203596ee46fcf2764/1565344829552-Y3VJ29W3P6BAKIMTO76I/futsushu.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Sakeguide auf Deutsch - Klassifizierung von Sake</image:title>
      <image:caption>Der Futsushu der bekannten Marke Hakkaisan ist von guter Qualität und weit verbreitet. (Foto: Hakkaisan)</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://sakeguide.net/deutsch/2019/8/9/was-ist-sake</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
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      <image:caption>October 20, 2020 | NHK World Sake brewing begins in Saitama</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>October 17, 2020 | Japan Times With fortunes waning in Japan, sake finds a new home abroad</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>October 15, 2020 | TimeOut Tokyo Former chief winemaker of Dom Perignon creates a sake with champagne blending techniques</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>May 17, 2020 | The Japan News Declining sake consumption prompts Japan’s Dassai maker to sell sake-brewing rice as food</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>April 24, 2020 | Asahi Shimbun Nagano hotel in 300-year-old sake brewery readies for debut</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>April 22, 2020 | Food&amp;Wine These New-School Craft Sakes Are Aged Like Wine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>April 20, 2020 | USA Today Everything you want to know about how to drink sake</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>April 19, 2020 | Asahi Shimbun Sake cup offers intoxicating look as cherry flowers magically appear</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>April 9, 2020 | Forbes Have You Tried The Best Sake In America?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>April 3 , 2020 | Japan Times Nine years after 3/11 earthquake, Tohoku sake brewers revived with help of young workers</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>March 31, 2020 | Nikkei Asian Review Climate change threatens sakura, sushi and sake</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>March 29, 2020 | Asahi Shimbun Brewery to use symphony to improve taste of renowned sake</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>March 24, 2020 | Asia Times Virus pummels Japan’s sake industry</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>March 23, 2020 | Nippon.com “Terroir Japonaise”: Japan’s Sake Meets France’s “Vin Natur” Philosophy</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>March 21, 2020 | Nikkei Asian Review Japan sake makers to adopt blockchain to fight Asian counterfeits</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>March 15, 2020 | JapanToday Yoghurt Sake is newest Japanese KitKat</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>March 15, 2020 | Japan Today Fukushima brewers look to push sake globally</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>March 4, 2020 | Vine Pair International Sake Producers Face Challenges — and Opportunities</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>March 3, 2020 | Atlas Obscura The Sake Master Reviving a Long-Forgotten Local Rice</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>March 3, 2020 | Asahi Shimbun Sake brewed in U.S., elsewhere creating buzz among drinkers</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>February 26, 2020 | The Irish Times Sake: A lesson in the Japanese drink made by steaming rice</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>February 25, 2020 | Kyodo News Foreign diplomats experience sake making in Japan in Olympics year</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>January 19, 2020 | Asahi Shimbun Oldest sake brewery found at former temple site in Kyoto</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>October 20, 2019 | Fortune Why This Award-Winning Champagne Maker Is Turning to Sake</image:caption>
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