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 ...

KOBE--Sake brewers nearly put out of business by the Great Hanshin Earthquake will mark the 30th anniversary of the disaster ...

Technology and techniques are starting to make it obsolete." Possibly the truest form of sake, junmai (which translates to "pure rice" in Japanese) is comprised solely of rice, water, koji ...

Contrary to popular perception, the Japanese fermented rice drink is versatile enough to suit a range of dishes you might not have expected ...

Brewery Asahi Shuzo Co. held its first-ever contest in 2019 to find the best Yamada Nishiki rice variety to use in Dassai, a renowned “junmai daiginjo” (sake specially brewed with pure rice ...

The Gozenshu Brewery is one of the few in Japan using bodaimoto, a 600-year-old fermentation method, to make sake. They use it to make junmai, or pure rice sake that has no added alcohol or sugar.

Here’s where it gets a little more complicated: If a sake is labeled junmai, which means “pure rice,” it indicates that the grains were polished by at least 30 percent and that no distilled ...

Johnson has practical pairing tips. “Go to a sake shop that carries decent sake and look for Yamahai Junmai. Yamahai’s umami will provide a broad foundation for pairing with various dishes.

TROY, N.Y. ( NEWS10) — A new sake bar is set to open on Second Street in Troy. The owner, Vic Christopher, says he hopes to ...