The Art of Sake is the retail venture of sake specialists Inter Rice Asia, operating from a warehouse unit at 16 Kallang Pl, #03-19/20 in Singapore. The shop recently celebrated its 18th anniversary, and the depth of its catalogue shows it: hundreds of bottles from breweries across Japan, arranged with unusual clarity by grade, style, taste, price and region, and backed by a full online store with next-day delivery.
Beyond the bottles, The Art of Sake treats sake appreciation as a genuine practice. Onsite tastings run biweekly, including a Meet the Brewery series that has recently spotlighted houses like Amabuki Shuzo and Manotsuru, while companies and private groups can arrange bespoke tasting events of their own. A Discovery Box programme — monthly bundles or a three-month subscription — makes an easy on-ramp for newcomers, and a dedicated shochu collection plus sake accessories round out the offering.
Whether you arrive hunting a specific junmai daiginjo or simply curious, the team's eighteen years of focus make the world of sake feel welcoming rather than intimidating — one carefully chosen bottle, and one tasting, at a time.
The Art of Sake, operated by sake specialists Inter Rice Asia, has quietly become one of Singapore's most trusted addresses for Japanese sake. The shop recently celebrated its 18th anniversary, and the depth of its range tells you those years were well spent: hundreds of bottles from breweries across Japan, arranged with a clarity that makes the often-intimidating world of sake feel genuinely approachable. The operation runs out of a warehouse unit at 16 Kallang Place — part working cellar, part browsing space — with a full online store delivering across Singapore.
What sets The Art of Sake apart is how thoroughly browsable it is. Bottles are sorted by grade, from futsu-shu up through junmai, ginjo and junmai daiginjo; by style, covering nama, yamahai and kimoto, sparkling, nigori, aged, kijoshu and fruit sakes; by taste, from light and clean to rich and full-bodied, fresh, sweet, dry or complex; by price point; and by region, sweeping from Tohoku through Kanto, Chubu, Kansai and Chugoku down to Shikoku and Kyushu — with a French outlier from Wakaze for the curious.
Curated collections add another layer: award-winning sakes, an IWC Sake 2026 – Hiroshima selection, a line-up dedicated to female owners and brewers, 1800ml magnums for a crowd, warm sakes for the colder months, and a Warehouse Exclusive range tied to this Kallang space. The shelves read like a brewery atlas — Dewazakura, Daishichi, Homare, Senkin, Tengumai, Manotsuru, Imayotsukasa, Kiminoi, Nihonsakari, Tsuki No Katsura, Kamoizumi, Gozenshu, Sanzen, Keigetsu, Ishizuchi, Kikubijin, Amabuki and many more.
The seasonal shelf rewards repeat visits. In winter, Daishichi's Yukishibori Honjozo Namagenshu arrives — a young sake that skips maturation entirely and is shipped out immediately after brewing. From the daiginjo tiers come Manotsuru's Miku, Ishizuchi's competition-minded Vanquish, Hourai's playfully nicknamed "Lady Killer" Iro Otoko, Keigetsu's Cel24 and Hideyoshi's flagship junmai daiginjo, while Ishizuchi's Yamadanishiki anchors the junmai ginjo shelf. If labels feel like a foreign language, the by-taste categories meet you where you are.
Sake is not the whole story. A dedicated shochu collection spans Japan's distilling heartlands — Amami, Kagoshima, Okinawa, Kumamoto, Miyazaki and Fukuoka, plus Hachijo in Tokyo — with names like Nishihira, Tensei, Chuko, Toyonaga, Ochiai and Craftsman Tada. Sake accessories round out the cart for anyone building a proper home-serving setup.
The Art of Sake treats appreciation as a practice rather than a transaction. Biweekly tastings run onsite, including the Meet the Brewery series, which has recently spotlighted Amabuki Shuzo and Manotsuru through its Nomi-kai sessions. Companies and private groups can arrange bespoke tastings of their own, and the shop's blog extends the learning at home, from a cheese-and-sake pairing guide to coverage of the latest IWC results.
For exploring at your own pace, the Discovery Box programme delivers a curated monthly selection — either as one-off bundles or a three-month subscription — an easy on-ramp when the wall of labels feels overwhelming.
Ordering is refreshingly simple: next-day delivery is available, and it is free for orders of $200 and above. New newsletter subscribers receive a 5% site-wide voucher, along with first word on promotions and tastings. Restaurants and bars can get in touch through trade enquiries to pour these bottles professionally.
Whether you arrive with a specific bottle in mind or nothing but curiosity, The Art of Sake makes eighteen years of sake obsession feel like a warm invitation rather than a test.