{"id":14898,"date":"2010-11-22T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=14898"},"modified":"2010-11-18T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T13:14:58","slug":"culture-spreader-john-gauntner-the-sake-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/22\/culture-spreader-john-gauntner-the-sake-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Spreader: John Gauntner – The Sake Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Culture Spreaders<\/em><\/strong> is a new feature intended to shine a spotlight on JET alums involved in spreading and sharing Japanese culture in their home countries.\u00a0 If you know of a good JET alum for a future post, just e-mail jetwit [at] jetwit.com<\/strong> tell us why you think that alum is a Culture Spreader<\/strong>.\u00a0 (Self-nominations welcome too.)<\/em><\/p>\n

JET alum and leading sake expert John Gauntner<\/a><\/strong> (aka \u201cThe Sake Guy<\/a>“<\/strong>) has established himself as the leading non-Japanese sake expert in the world.\u00a0 See, e.g., this 2009 Japan Times<\/em> article titled, “Nihonshu<\/em> evangelist preaches heady mix of culture, taste<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Not only does John spread the sake gospel through numerous appearances and events in the U.S. and elsewhere, but he also offers a Sake Professional Course<\/strong><\/a> in various locations to teach others how to be sake experts and evangelizers.\u00a0 As\u00a0 a result, there are now four sake-only specialist shops in the U.S.–True Sake<\/strong><\/a> (San Francisco), Sakaya<\/strong><\/a> (NYC), SakeNomi<\/strong><\/a> (Seattle) and The Sake Shop<\/strong><\/a> (Honolulu)–and the owners of all four attended John’s Sake Professional Course for the purpose of starting their respective businesses.<\/p>\n

For his work spreading Japanese sake culture around the globe (and helping the Japanese sake industry expand its markets), John Gauntner is hereby recognized by JetWit as a serious “Culture Spreader.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Editor’s note:<\/em><\/span> In the “JET’s a small world” department, it turns out that both John Gauntner and last week’s “Culture Spreader”<\/a> Bruce Rutledge are both originally from Cleveland and previously have met at SakeNomi in Seattle, where Bruce currently lives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Culture Spreaders is a new feature intended to shine a spotlight on JET alums involved in spreading and sharing Japanese culture in their home countries.\u00a0 If you know of a good JET alum for a future post, just e-mail jetwit [at] jetwit.com tell us why you think that alum is a Culture Spreader.\u00a0 (Self-nominations welcome […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,26,305,70,304,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebrity","category-cultural-outreach","category-food-drink","category-notable-jet-alums","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3Si","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14902,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898\/revisions\/14902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}