A bottle of limited-edition sake from the renowned Dassai brand fetched the equivalent of 843,750 yen ($8,026) at auction in Hong Kong on Nov. 10. The winning bid was 62,500 Hong Kong dollars.
Sake is among the most widely imbibed alcoholic beverages in Japan, and it has its adherents here in the U.S., too, as this country is actually the biggest exporter of the alcoholic fermented rice ...
Luckily, there is more Japanese sake available at local wine shops or online retailers these days. But how do you choose a bottle? Most of us are clueless. Genki Ito, founder and CEO of the online ...
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 ...
Dressed in a necktie of sake bottle prints, Japan Ambassador to Malaysia Takahashi Katsuhiko said in his opening speech that he was a fan of sake. “My love for sake is presented in my necktie ...
70-80% of his sake consists of the latter because Kimoto can make the local terroir fully manifested in his bottles. Then he blends these carefully made base sake in the style of assemblages.