Sake brewers seeking to please palates overseas
NIIGATA -- When movie star Robert De Niro visited Hokusetsu Shuzo's cellar in the village of Akadomari on Sado Island in fall 1998, he reportedly held up a 10-year-old bottle of sake and said he wanted it shipped to his restaurant in the United ...
Sake purists are feeling the pinch as recession reins in the big spenders
NIIGATA -- Motoaki Isono, the 73-year-old owner of a tavern called Suzuden in Tokyo's Minato Ward, said the name Niigata no longer works magic in alluring serious sake drinkers. Suzuden keeps a variety of locally brewed sake for its clientele -- mostly office workers who ...
NIIGATA -- Yoshikawa High School in Niigata Prefecture is the only high school left that teaches students how to brew sake. But the current class will be the last to learn this ancient art. The school will stop enrolling students for the course in the ...
