Sake, Spirit & Cocktail Sets

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Buy Japanese sake sets for tasting and for gifting Sake begins with steamed rice, water and koji, a mould that turns rice starch into fermentable sugar. Our Sake Selection puts four styles side by side: sparkling Shirayuki de Ai at 7.5% abv, unpasteurised Sanko Hinokuchi RAW at a hefty 20%, and Konishi Silver and Gold, both daiginjo, both polished to a clean, floral finish. It's the gentlest way in for anyone who's only ever had sake warmed in a restaurant. Prefer to give the drink and the vessel together? The Stream Sake and Konishi Gold sets each arrive with four sake cups. The cup does influence how the drink tastes. A thin porcelain lip keeps an aromatic daiginjo crisp and lifted, while heavier stoneware rounds off the deeper, rice-forward flavour of a junmai. The pottery-only sake sets stand on their own too. Black Bizen for two. Minoyaki porcelain carafes with four matching cups in sky blue or a brown and blue drip glaze. Five patterned ochoko in a wooden box. Itaya maple cups turned from Japanese wood, light enough that you forget you're holding one. There's a heating and chilling pot with a woven Ibushi handle as well, for anyone who prefers sakeware with a practical purpose. Build a Japanese cocktail set with our own spirits Four spirits carry our own label, with each starting with a Japanese ingredient. Shiso gin has the herb's cool, minty-anise note. Sansho spiced rum brings citrus lift, and the faint tongue-tingle sansho pepper is known for. Yuzucello is sharp and perfumed, all grapefruit and mandarin peel. Wasabi vodka does what you'd hope. A clean heat that clears quickly instead of lingering. Each Japanese cocktail set turns up with its mixer already picked. Shiso gin is boxed with two Luscombe Devon tonic waters. Sansho rum comes with Gusto organic cola. The Yuzucello Spritz set adds sparkling wine and Fever-Tree soda water, so you pour, top and serve. The pairings aren't arbitrary, either. Devon tonic is light enough to let the shiso through, and Gu