Consuming your sake spillover-style isn't a simple chug-and-go affair. There are meaningful customs to observe if you want to ...

One of the most notorious things about Japanese food and drink culture is sake, and more specifically, sake bombs. The alcohol, which is made by fermenting rice, is a delicious and unique drink ...

Once confined to Japanese restaurants and karaoke clubs, sake has found its way onto drinks lists and supermarket shelves up and down the country. Waitrose announced searches on its website for ...

Sake has been the biggest loser in the alcohol market from the shift to drinking at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, statistics show. Although wine and other alcoholic beverages have largely ...

As well as its rise in popularity at fine dining restaurants in Australia, it’s also found itself front and centre on the drinks list, too, often within cocktails. “Sake has seen a remarkable ...

Sake, the drink of choice for the nobility in “The Tale of Genji” — Japan's most celebrated work of literature — has been widening its appeal, boosted by the growing international ...

Today just happens to be World Sake Day, so let’s do a recap of this Japanese spirit. October 1 was officially recognised as World Sake Day in 1978 by the Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association.

where nihonshu has been successfully branded as a luxury drink, the value per liter was over ¥2,000. With the addition of traditional knowledge and skills of sake-making to the UNESCO list of ...