Over the

past year of doing Sake On Air, believe it or not, one of the most highly

requested show topics that we get from our listeners has been for us to do a deep-dive

exploring the backgrounds and stories of your regular hosts here on the show.

Originally

a bit hesitant – the entire purpose of the show is to provide a voice to those

in and around the industry that are underrepresented – we realized that we’ve been

doing this for quite a while now without ever properly communicating to our

listeners exactly who is involved and their

motivations behind, not only Sake On Air, but their involvement in the world of

sake.

So with

that, we bring you Part 1 of our “Know Your Hosts” series. Each episode will

include in-depth interviews with two of your regular Sake On Air hosts. Over

four episodes to be released intermittently over the coming months, you’ll have

the chance to learn a bit more about the people that came together in order to

make Sake On Air possible.

For Part

1, we hear from the show’s shochu ambassador, Christopher

Pellegrini, as

well as our deep culture guru and resident Frenchman, Sebastien

Lemoine.

Now that

we’ve gone through the process of recording all of these, we’re actually really

excited to finally share the stories of the people behind the microphones with

all of our listeners. If you have any questions for this week’s hosts (and

interviewees!), feel free to reach out to us at [email protected], or via the contact

page on our brand

new website.

If you

could take a moment to leave a review for us on Apple

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favorite podcast streaming service, it really does wonders for helping us to

promote and grow the show.

Also be

sure to follow along with us on Instagram, Twiiter, and Facebook, and our  YouTube

channel is finally

in motion as well.

Thanks for listening, and kampai!

Sake On Air is made possible with the generous

support of the Japan Sake & Shochu Makers

Association and is broadcast from the Japan Sake & Shochu Information Center in Tokyo. The show is a

co-production between Export Japan and Potts.K Productions, with audio

production by Frank Walter.

Our theme, “Younger Today Than Tomorrow” is

composed by forSomethingNew for Sake On Air.