Thank you so much for all the applications.
Here is a list of 2023 Australian Sake Awards juries.

(names in alphabetical order)

JUDGE LEADER

• Daniel Zahrooni (Cerbaco Distribution)
• Dennis Han (Wine Knight Consulting)
• Mark Ferguson 
• Sandra Gwee (Kodawari Sake Education)
• Simone Maynard (Sake Mistress)
• Slava Beliakova 
• William McIntyre

INTERNATIONAL GUEST JUDGE

• Ken Oda (Head Researcher, Department of Microbiological Research, National Research Institute of Brewing Japan)

JUDGE

• Akito Kurokawa (Gojin Enterprise/Sakedokoro Namara)
• Alan Trinh 
• Alex Wong (Arkhe)
• Ayuri Michimoto (Hyatt Regency Sydney)
• Ben Williams
• Chiaki Komura (Deep Tokyo)
• David Laurence Barnett (Toku Toku Sake Consultant)
• Edward Lynch-Bell
• Flynn McLennan (The Long Goodbye)
• Geoff Koch (Tantalus Media/Counsult)
• Guy Vaillant (Dan Murphys)
• Hiroshi Umeda (Jun Pacific Corporation)
• Howard Chen 
• James Zhu 
• John Stamatakis (Mould Farmer)
• Kana Aoyama (Sakedokoro Namara)
• Kazunari Fukuda (Daiwa Food Corporation)
• Kenji Minagawa (JFC Australia)
• Kohei Satouchi 
• Koji Shibata (Izakaya Fujiyama)
• Li Min
• Lucy Cai
• Mari Nakatani (Osaka Bar)
• Mikiko Yamamoto (Tokyo Downtown Style)
• Min Chitswe
• Mingqing Yang
• Naomi Washiashi (PG Tours Australia)
• Nicholas Teo (Tenshu Kura)
• Otowa Tomioka (Masuya)
• Rina Shibata (Izakaya Fujiyama)
• Runa Shibata (Kame House)
• Samuel Lam (Pinnacle Drinks)
• Shuuya Svampe (Nunzio’s Restaurant)
• Tadayoshi Hayakawa 
• Terry Ng
• Thomas Hart (The Oak Barrel)
• Thomas Ng (Sakelier)
• Thomas Sutton 
• Wai Shun Chan (Sydney Masonic Centre)
• Wen-Yen Hu (Just Liquor Ashfield)
• Wenrui Lu (Wine Consultant)
• Yi Sun (Ine Sake)
• Yoshikazu Honda (Honda Sake Bar and Dining)
• Yu Kit Fan