Hakkaisan again attended Toronto Canada’s biggest sake event “KAMPAI Toronto” on June 1st of this year. The Sake Institute of Ontario organized the event which is in its 6th year.. There were over 150 kinds of sake for tasting, and many brewers from Japan were in attendance as well as local restaurants booths to offer delicious food for sake pairing. The event started off with a Sake Seminar by Sake Samurais then tasting sake time for restaurants professionals and the media. A lot of people were sake educated and some traveled from far away cities such as Vancouver or Montreal. At the Hakkaisan booth, we introduced our latest sake “Snow Aged Junmai Ginjo 3 years” for the first time in Canada and gave our guests a pleasant surprise with the story and the taste of this new sake.

The event was opened to the general public in the evening with music and a Japanese drum performance which created a “Matsuri” festival feeling that helped the guests to enjoy sake, food, and a nice ambience. Every year the awareness of sake grows through this event and the event gets bigger and more fun!!