By Libby Brodie Working with the Wine and Spirit Education Trust as senior sake researcher, Natsuki Kikuya is also involved in promoting sake through campaigns, events and with Japanese government organisations. What got you into sake? My mum’s family ran a sake brewery in northern Japan called Akita for over 400 years. When my beloved grandfather got ill I wanted to learn about his sake, and fell in love with the diverse and elegant flavours of this category made all around Japan. Knowing the sake industry has been falling over the past 70 years, I wanted to help rebuild the industry from out…