When I asked Antony Moss MW, to check for any conspicuous absences from the profiles section of my book, Sake and the Wines of Japan, he said Hong Kong readers would expect the super luxury brand Juyondai to be there. Keen then to include Juyondai among my profiles, I wrote to Rebekah Wilson Lye, PR for Takagi Shuzo Brewery’s cult brand, with a list of questions and a request for tasting samples to which she had responded: ‘Only 1000 bottles of N are made each year, and they are only sold overseas.