Embedded in Japanese culture is the iconic rice wine, sake, but despite its household name, it has long been misunderstood.

Sake. Japanese food. It sounds pretty obvious but not if you’re Naoto Mizuno, president of the much-lauded Kokuryu brand of ...

A primer on how to drink sake mirrors that of Japanese whisky: you savor it. Considered the national drink of Japan, sake has ...

Among Japan's sake makers, a delicious revolution is brewing. Betsy Andrews is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience covering food, drink, and travel. She is also a ...

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 ...

Exports of sake have been rocketing in recent years, as foreign drinkers develop a taste for the rice brew. But as one recent tasting competition showed, it's not just the Japanese stuff that's ...

Tendrils of rice-scented steam once again rise in Tokyo's Minato City from Tokyo Port Brewery (TPB), after the sake ...

Even the naysayer chief brewer was surprised by the popularity of a new style of sake that he produced. The taste is not the only unorthodox thing about the Hinemos brand. The boldly labeled ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Sake has been brewed in Japan for thousands of years. The most expensive kind, made with polished grains of rice, is called junmai daiginjo. One bottle can easily ...

Breweries were forced to rise from the ashes of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in a devastated area that once boasted of the largest sake output in Japan. The massive quake on Jan. 17 ...