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  • Nabeshima Sake: Saga’s Award-Winning Japanese Sake Brand
  • Isojiman Sake: Shizuoka’s Pursuit of Premium Japanese Sake
  • Shichiken Sake: Mountain Water, Tradition, and Japanese Sparkling Sake

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foodinjapan.org /1 week ago

Nabeshima Sake: Saga’s Award-Winning Japanese Sake Brand

Picture a quiet brewing street near the Ariake Sea, lined with white-walled storehouses. In 2011, a sake from one of those breweries took the top sake prize at the International Wi...

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foodinjapan.org /1 week ago

Isojiman Sake: Shizuoka’s Pursuit of Premium Japanese Sake

Isojiman (磯自慢) is a sake brand from Isojiman Shuzo, a brewery founded in 1830. It is based in Yaizu, a fishing port in Shizuoka Prefecture. The brewery describes itself as an ea...

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foodinjapan.org /6 days ago

Shichiken Sake: Mountain Water, Tradition, and Japanese Sparkling Sake

One bottle is lightly cloudy and velvety. Another is dry, with aromas the brewery compares to pink grapefruit. A third rests in whisky casks, and the brewery describes maple and va...

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foodinjapan.org /2 days ago

Kaze no Mori Sake: Nara’s Innovative Approach to Fresh, Unfiltered Nihonshu

Open a well-chilled bottle of Kaze no Mori sake, and the first sip may prickle gently. It feels more like a lively young white wine than a sparkling drink. However, nobody added th...

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foodinjapan.org /1 week ago

Masumi Sake: The Nagano Brewery Behind Japan’s No. 7 Yeast

Most sake brands are known for a taste, a rice, or a famous bottle. Masumi is known for something you cannot see: a yeast. In 1946, researchers isolated a yeast from sake fermentin...

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wineindustryadvisor.com /4 days ago

рџ“єWhat is Sake? Champagne King Brews IWA 5 in Japan

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

History of Sake: From Ancient Rice Fermentation to Modern Nihonshu

The history of sake stretches back roughly two thousand years, at least if you use the word broadly for Japanese alcoholic drinks made from rice. Yet the earliest rice-based drinks...

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Medieval Sake in Japan: Temple Breweries, Sake Shops, and Brewing Innovation

In 1425, a document kept at Kitano Shrine in Kyoto recorded 342 sake businesses inside and around the capital. By then, that number marks how far sake had travelled. It was no long...

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Ancient Sake in Japan: Rice, Ritual and Origins

Ancient sake in Japan was not the clear, filtered nihonshu poured today. The term covers a loose family of rice-based alcoholic drinks tied to farming, ritual, and early political...

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foodinjapan.org /1 week ago

Kokuryu Sake: The Fukui Brewery That Helped Pioneer Premium Daiginjo

In 1975, a brewery in Fukui Prefecture released a daiginjo at a time when such highly refined sake was still closely tied to technical competitions rather than ordinary retail. Dai...

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foodinjapan.org /1 week ago

Kubota Sake: The Niigata Brand That Redefined Dry Japanese Sake

Order Kubota at an izakaya, a casual Japanese pub, and you will usually get a restrained, smooth sake with a clean, quick finish. Kubota sake is a Niigata brand made by Asahi-Shuzo...

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asia.nikkei.com /2 weeks ago

Taiwan rice returns home as high-end Japanese sake

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foodinjapan.org /10 hours ago

Dewazakura Sake: The Brewery That Helped Bring Ginjo to the Public

Today, fragrant ginjo sake is easy to find in Japan and overseas. In 1980, however, few everyday drinkers knew the word “ginjo.” Dewazakura is a sake brewery founded in 1892 in Ten...

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foodinjapan.org /2 weeks ago

Dassai Sake: The Story Behind Japan’s Global Junmai Daiginjo Brand

Bottles with a bold “23” on the label appear on sake lists in Japan and overseas. The figure is easy to mistake for alcohol strength, but it means something else. Dassai sake is a...

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foodinjapan.org /4 weeks ago

Nara and Heian Sake: Court Brewing and History

Beneath the grass of the Heijo Palace site in Nara, archaeologists uncovered a well surrounded by hexagonal stone paving. Nearby lay wooden pipes, the sockets of large ceramic jars...

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foodinjapan.org /3 weeks ago

Contemporary Sake in Japan: Craft, Globalization, and a Living Tradition

In 2025, Japan exported about 45.9 billion yen of sake to a record 81 countries and regions. Meanwhile, the country’s own sake drinkers kept buying less, as they have almost every...

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Edo Period Sake: How Brewing Became a Major Industry in Japan

In 1697, roughly 640,000 casks of sake arrived in Edo by sea. Almost none of it came from Nada, although that district later dominated Japanese brewing. Edo period sake is not real...

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foodinjapan.org /4 weeks ago

Modern Sake History: War, Mass Production, and the Ginjo Revival

In fiscal 1973, Japan’s breweries shipped about 1.77 million kiloliters of sake, more than in any year before or since. Fifty years later, the figure was under 400,000. Modern sake...

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foodinjapan.org /3 weeks ago

How to Drink Sake in Japan: A Beginner’s Guide

You sit down at a small izakaya counter, and the staff slide over a menu with a long column of kanji. Some words look familiar from bottle labels, while others do not. Meanwhile, s...

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wineindustryadvisor.com /1 month ago

De Maison Selections Enters Sake Category with Four Japanese Breweries Making U.S. Debut

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asia.nikkei.com /1 month ago

Tokyo brewer challenges sake's fixation on famous water

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foodinjapan.org /2 weeks ago

Sake Glasses and Cups: A Guide to Japanese Sake Vessels

Pour the same sake into three vessels: a small ceramic cup, a straight-sided glass and a wine glass. Then smell each one. The sake has not changed, yet the three pours may not seem...

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foodinjapan.org /3 weeks ago

How to Read a Japanese Sake Label: A Beginner’s Guide

You pick up a bottle in a Japanese liquor shop and turn it around. On the back, you find a column of kanji and numbers: Junmai Ginjo, 55%, 15%, Yamada Nishiki, +3. So learning how...

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Karashi: Rice, Koji and Moto Conditioning

Karashi (枯らし) is a conditioning period in sake brewing, and it happens three separate times. Rice rests after polishing, koji rests after leaving the koji room, and the finished...

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