In Japan, the Terada Honke brewery holds fast to tradition: wild yeast, ancient songs, and a mixture of muscle and finesse.

Toji ("Toji-san") Yamamoto has dedicated his life to brewing sake by hand. At 68 years young, he's the brewmaster at Yoshida Brewery in Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture. It's 144 years old and one of only ...

While online wine clubs abound, Tippsy is quietly cultivating a community for a more niche alcohol category that's ready to ...

With a name that loosely translates to ‘Love Sake Date’, Aishu Deito is a fun and accessible sake festival that brings ...

Lucy Simon is a New York-based wine, spirits, and food writer has been with Food & Wine since the spring of 2021. To drink sake or to drink wine, that is the question. As sake sales have skyrocketed ...

A leading sake brewer has produced the traditional Japanese beverage using only foreign-harvested rice in time for the Osaka Kansai Expo. The project of Gekkeikan Sake Co., headquartered in Kyoto’s ...

Sake is more popular than ever before in the U.S., and due to continually increasing exports, our country now enjoys the largest and highest quality selection in history. While it’s great to have an ...

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 the ...

Understanding sake isn’t as daunting as one might think. Knowing the brewed beverage’s basics plus a few key words will ensure you’re no longer blindly picking bottes off a list and hoping for the ...

You might know sake as the delicious Japanese rice wine that pairs perfectly with sushi, but did you know it also has some amazing skincare benefits? Sake isn’t just a great drink—it’s packed with ...