In an age where almost every piece of historical information is available at our fingertips, Thomas Mars and Laurent Brancowitz of the French band Phoenix surprise me with a fact that doesn't seem to exist anywhere on the internet. "One of our first shows was ...
Despite falling sales in Japan, sake is experiencing an increase in popularity in Britain. The popularity seems to be reflected not only in brisk local sales but also in talk in the media that the Japanese rice wine may finally be entering the mainstream. According ...
Brewery executive Kosuke Kuji brought his best sake to a New York booze showcase 16 years ago hoping to promote high-end sake to a new generation of sophisticated foreign drinkers. They were a little disappointed. It wasn't that sake from his Nanbu-Bijin brewery failed to ...
Along with the resurgence of sake, it's no surprise that there has also been steady interest in amazake, the sweetened alcoholic beverage made from sakekasu, the lees of sake production, which is known for being nutritious as it contains vitamins, protein, organic acids, fiber ...
Major sake producing region Niigata is stepping up efforts to promote its sake brands locally and abroad with plans to establish a new sake course at the local university. In a joint effort between the Niigata Prefectural Government, Niigata University and Niigata Sake Brewers Association, ...
A Niigata Prefecture sake brewery whose production facilities were destroyed in an large-scale fire last December resumed shipments on Monday. Kaganoi Co., based in the city of Itoigawa, borrowed facilities from a brewery in Kurobe in the neighboring prefecture of Toyama to resume shipments. "We were ...
Entrepreneur Nao Kohara sits at a table in his favorite neighborhood bar, checking emails on his laptop computer and sipping a glass of sake. Some of his brightest business ideas have been hatched over a few drinks — including the concept behind his latest venture, ...
Sake and sakura. Cherry blossom and Japan's traditional tipple make for a heady combination, wherever you put them together. One of the best parties this year is likely to be in the heart of Tokyo's Roppongi district, at the upcoming Craft Sake Week. Over 10 days ...
Gourmandizing television personality Hidehiko Ishizuka has a famously large appetite. Apparently, the portly comedian also has a taste for Japanese sake. On a clear February afternoon in the sake-producing region of Fushimi, just south of Kyoto, a camera crew forms a tight circle around ...
This one is for the shoppers, or for those who have to go shopping but would rather be drinking sake. On the ground floor of Kyoto Aeon Mall, directly behind Kyoto Station, and just beyond the cash registers at Kohyo supermarket, you'll find Asano, ...
British native on the need for patience during the brewing process.
Every week, sake sommelier Satoko Utsugi leads groups of overseas visitors past the Fukagawa Fudosan Temple and along a shopping street in Tokyo's downtown neighborhood of Monzen-Nakacho. Their destination is Orihara Shoten, a sake shop with a tasting bar, and Utsugi's mission is to provide ...
