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Sake World Homepage - John Gauntner
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John Gauntner is recognized as the leading non-Japanese sake expert in the world. Originally hailing from Ohio, he worked in his original vocation as an electrical engineer in Japan before fate pulled him, although hardly kicking and screaming, into the sake world.
A longtime Japan resident, he both speaks and reads Japanese, and is well known among sake brewers and others within the sake industry as the window to making sake popular outside of Japan. He wrote the Nihonshu Column in the Japan Times (Japan's most widely read English language newspaper) for eight straight years. He now writes a weekly column on sake in Japanese for Japan's (and, in fact, the world's) most widely distributed Japanese newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun, as well as monthly for Tokyo Metropolis magazine, and has published four books on the subject. (His most recent book, "Nihonjin mo Shirenai Nihonshu no Hanashi" or "Things about sake that even Japanese people do not know," has just been published in Japanese by Shogakkan, and is available at bookstores everywhere.)
Known as "The Sake Guy," John has been quoted and/or mentioned in sake related articles in countless publications including The New York Times, Newsweek, Forbes, Business Week, and Rolling Stone. He has spoken at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia Universities, Wharton School of Business, and countless other venues across the US and Japan.
