And what comes with it naturally is Japanese sake. Sake exports hit the highest level in history in 2022 and the U.S. was the biggest importer by volume and the second biggest by value after China.

Brewers believe traditional Japanese drink will see a renaissance now it has gained a world heritage listing. Sake, a traditional rice wine known as nihonshu, ranks as one of Japan's most famous ...

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.

A primer on how to drink sake mirrors that of Japanese whisky ... how are you supposed to drink sake without doing a disservice to its culture? There's a set of unspoken rules that, luckily ...