Guy Vaillant

Guy Vaillant, originally from Virton, a small City Southern Belgium; has been living in Australia since the early ‘90s.
Guy first discovered sake almost a decade ago when the company he worked with started to offer a range of sake and provided some beginner educational classes for our clients. He was trained to work in fine dining restaurants across Europe and when coming to Australia, he realised the lack of wine sommeliers in early 1990s. To help with this, he started a group with other pioneer sommeliers and founded the Sommelier Association in New South Wales back in 1993.
From here he spent hours reading and learning about sake to improve his sake knowledge and confidence.
Guy loves to share his experiences with his customers and explain how to taste sake and match it with different cuisines and best temperature to serve it with it, with the aim of helping people discover the delights sake has to offer.
I offer tastings, sake private education to help people discover the delights sake has to offer.

Yi Sun

Yi Sun has over a decade of experience in the beverage industry, the instructor boasts systematic expertise and practical operational know-how in wine, alongside more than five years of experience in the sake import and export trade. Holding an Advanced Sake Sommelier qualification, he has built an integrated knowledge system covering both wine and sake.

His career spans the full industrial chain of sake, amassing hands-on expertise spanning raw sake sourcing, product selection and market promotion. He has developed refined professional tasting capabilities and excels particularly in sake blind tasting. By analysing flavour, acidity, rice variety and yeast characteristics, he can accurately identify a sake’s origin, brewing techniques and classification grade.

Driven by a passion for popularising sake culture, he devotes himself to education, delivering lectures on sake brewing fundamentals, sensory tasting and professional sake service protocols. Rooted in real-world trade experience, his lessons combine practical industry cases and tasting skills, avoiding rigid textbook theories to explain professional knowledge in an accessible manner. Committed to sharing authentic sake culture with learners, he guides students to appreciate the intrinsic flavour of sake, cultivate genuine fondness for the beverage and contributes to the popularisation of sake culture and the cultivation of industry professionals.

Kodawari Sake Education is a beacon of Sake Sommelier education in Australia; it delves the understanding to the Sake world. Offering services for the community to unravel the beauty of Japanese Sake