"I like to age sake like wine." Sato is the fifth-generation owner at Kaetsu Brewery, which he runs with his wife, Yoshiko, in the rice-growing Niigata prefecture, wedged between white-capped ...

For a product to be categorized Japanese sake, the rice must be Japanese ... helping the tradition stay alive amid competition from beer, wine and other modern beverages. Among previous Intangible ...

TENDO, Yamagata Prefecture--Serious rice wine drinkers ... popularity of beer, wine and foreign tipples, Masumi Nakano, the fourth-generation president of Dewazakura Sake Brewery, decided to ...

Just like you can’t brew beer without yeast (without it ... which relates to the traditional Japanese rice wine you'd expect.

Embedded in Japanese culture is the iconic rice wine, sake, but despite its household name, it has long been misunderstood. At the Brisbane Sake Festival, sake educator and promoter Simone Maynard ...

I have noticed sake is more easily embraced than wine, even by Indian consumers who ... of the country already has several forms of rice beer," she adds. With her father from Manipur and mother ...

now offers a sparkling sake. Not a wine, beer or spirit, the alcoholic drink doesn't slot neatly into a category. Brewed in Japan for over 1,000 years, it's made from fermented rice, water ...