ONLINE VERSION AVAILABLE TO AUSTRALIA STATEWIDE
Suitable for Restaurants Owners seeking to have their staff equipped with the skill and knowledge to confidently serve sake to their customers
- In- person half-day course exclusively for Japanese restaurant owners to confidently equip their staff to showcase, food pair and sell their Sake list with confidence
For individuals new to the subject, this qualification offers a hands-on introduction to the world of Japanese Sake so that your wait staff are confidently qualified to showcase your Sake list to food pair - Unlike other courses that simply teach you the content, we’ll get stuck in and you’ll explore the main styles and types of Japanese Sake through sight, smell and taste to develop an understanding of the key factors affecting flavours and aromas through practical practice.
- Does your waitstaff freeze when asked about sake?
Feel ashamed about own culture because of expectations that customers have because you are Japanese?
PERTH
8am-2pm (Perth Time)
REGISTRATION CLOSES 2 WEEKS BEFORE COMMENCE DATES
Course Overview
- For individuals new to the subject, this qualification offers a hands-on introduction to the world of Japanese Sake
- You’ll explore the main styles and types of Japanese Sake through sight, smell and taste to develop an understanding of the key factors affecting flavours and aromas.
- Interactive style
Course Objective
The candidate will be able to:
Will be able to understand the basics of Japanese Sake making production
- Sake Industry: consumer's perceptions of sake: have yourself equipped with what is expected from your consumers, being aware gives you the confidence to meet your customer's needs.
- Sake production: knowledge is power, it equips you as well makes you understand how an alcoholic drink is made from rice differs from other alcoholic beverages in the world. When customers do get curious you are able to leverage this knowledge to demonstrate your expertise to mesmerise them
- Understanding how to taste sake through taste and aroma demonstrates the performance of the sake and allows you to learn and adapt a new skill which you use in your daily life.
- descriptive language and how to recommend sake to a customer (role play exercise) like for customers if it is hard to describe sake, but this is because we are basing on the way we think we should describe instead of using how we feel to describe it. Throughout this process, we make it easy.
- Taste 6 different styles of Japanese Sake (Sake bottles distributed by Sake World after enrolment) Requested 2 weeks to guarantee arrival before class.
- Identify the different grades of Japanese Sake
- Speciality styles of Sake and state their key characteristics
- Know and recognise the processes and principles involved in the storage and service of Japanese Sake.
- Understand the fundamentals behind the Sake making production.
- Food pairing exercise with Japanese Sake understanding( cheese + chocolate)
- Students will be required to get their cheese and chocolate for the exercise it will be not supplied due to quality expectations for shipping)
Course Outline
The basic principles of Japanese Sake production
- The main types and styles of Japanese Sake
- How to serve Japanese Sake
- Factors affecting the flavour of Japanese Sake
- Systematic Approach to tasting Japanese Sake® (SAT) and aroma capture analysis.
- Duration - 5 Hours Maximum)
Cost: $450+ express delivery fee
Includes
- 6 sake bottles from different sake categories for learning
- 5 hours tuition
- Certified Sake Professional Qualification Certificate recognised by Sake Sommelier Association (SSA). label pin.
Cancellations & Reschedule: Students will be charged $80 admin fee to reschedule the class .
Entry Requirements
There are no entry requirements for this qualification.
You must be of legal drinking age to participate in any alcohol tasting.
Certification
Upon successful completion of our Professional Sake Introductory Course, you will receive an official SSA Sake Sommelier Certificate and have access to the Certified Sake Sommelier Course
What you will need to bring:
1 Glasses( small wine glasses preferably)
- Water
- Pen
- ceramic teacup or bowl
- Ice Bucket - temperature contrast
- Course PDF via email for printout
- 6 Sake tasting bottles
- cheese and chocolate
- steel pot
- Hot kettle
- Thermometer

We Are The World’s Premier Sake Education Specialists
The Sake Sommelier Academy (SSA) has been the world’s leading sake education provider since 2000, with innovative courses expertly tailored to suit students from all backgrounds and cultures, training them to become Sake Sommeliers.
One of the key pillars of the Sake Sommelier Association (alongside their sommelier competitions and brewery events), the Sake Sommelier Academy operates with a network of partner schools & educators to provide industry leading sake courses across 6 continents.
Kodawari Sake Education has become the SSA approved program provider (ACP) in 2020. We are currently offering SSA Introductory Sake Professional Course with Certification & Pin.
The Sake Sommelier Academy (SSA) has been the world’s leading sake education provider since 2000, with innovative courses expertly tailored to suit students from all backgrounds and cultures, training them to become Sake Sommeliers.
One of the key pillars of the Sake Sommelier Association (alongside their sommelier competitions and brewery events), the Sake Sommelier Academy operates with a network of partner schools & educators to provide industry leading sake courses across 6 continents.
Kodawari Sake Education has become the SSA approved program provider (ACP) in 2020. We are currently offering SSA Introductory Sake Professional Course with Certification & Pin.