OME, Japan--Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters (2,640 gallons) of the Japanese rice wine that is the product of brewing ...
TENDO, Yamagata Prefecture--Serious rice wine drinkers overseas tend to fall over themselves trying to get their hands on “ginjo” high-quality sake produced by Dewazakura Sake Brewery Co.
Sake, a traditional rice wine known as nihonshu, ranks as one of Japan's most famous exports alongside sushi. The drink, which is slightly yellow in colour, is usually about 15 per cent alcohol by ...
Secondly, sake has umami, which does not normally exist in wine. Sake is made with rice, water, yeast and koji. Unlike wine grapes, rice needs to convert its starch into sugar before starting ...
“Here you’ll have some aromas of steamed rice and hints of fruit and earth.” From there, armed with an array of wine glasses as the vessels, he takes us along a sake journey across different ...