{"id":17175,"date":"2011-03-01T13:22:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T17:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=17175"},"modified":"2011-03-01T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T17:22:14","slug":"jet-alum-sake-expert-spotlighted-in-japan-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/01\/jet-alum-sake-expert-spotlighted-in-japan-times\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum sake expert spotlighted in Japan Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today’s Japan Times<\/a><\/strong> makes mention of JET alum and leading sake expert John Gauntner<\/a><\/strong> (a.k.a. The Sake Guy), author of the Sake World E-Newsletter<\/a>.\u00a0In the article, which highlights sake’s growing popularity around the world, Gauntner recalls his long journey with the rice-based beverage \u2014 from love at first sip to his current status as the first and only non-Japanese certified “sake expert assessor”.<\/p>\n

Check out the article, “Foreign sake experts win over hearts, palates”.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gauntner is a noted lecturer on sake who travels the world speaking on the topic.\u00a0He has published a score of books on sake and spoke at Japan Society last May. To learn more about him and sake, visit his website\u00a0www.sake-world.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Japan Times makes mention of JET alum and leading sake expert John Gauntner (a.k.a. The Sake Guy), author of the Sake World E-Newsletter.\u00a0In the article, which highlights sake’s growing popularity around the world, Gauntner recalls his long journey with the rice-based beverage \u2014 from love at first sip to his current status as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,70],"tags":[137,138,142],"class_list":["post-17175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-food-drink","tag-john-gauntner","tag-sake","tag-the-sake-guy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t