Brewers believe traditional Japanese drink will see a renaissance now it has gained a world heritage listing. Sake, a traditional rice wine known as nihonshu, ranks as one of Japan's most famous ...

Slated for release on Jan. 17 to mark the 30th anniversary of the disaster that killed more than 6,000 people, the 1995-labled sake was stored and matured over the course of 40 days in an oak cask ...

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Japanese tipples sake and shochu -- and the knowledge and ... It is also drunk to mark store openings and election victories -- or just to say "kampai" meaning "cheers" in Japanese pubs.

OKAYA, Nagano Prefecture--Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family’s 150-year-old sake brewery, Koten, nestled in ...

And what comes with it naturally is Japanese sake. Sake exports hit the highest level in history in 2022 and the U.S. was the biggest importer by volume and the second biggest by value after China.

An curved arrow pointing right. The Gozenshu Brewery is one of the few in Japan using bodaimoto, a 600-year-old fermentation method, to make sake. They use it to make junmai, or pure rice sake ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Akiko Katayama covers Japanese food and culture. But they do. Sake has been increasingly popular among French people lately. Imports of ...

The Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association (JSS) has released 2024 sake export data. The total export value reached JPY 43.5 billion, a +6% increase from the previous year, with 3.45 million ...