One day in early January, an elderly man was seen picking up a bottle labeled Gekkeikan Sake from a shelf lined with many sake products at a liquor shop. While selecting sake is a common sight at ...

Holding about 25% of the U.S. sake market, Gekkeikan is one of the most famous sake producers on earth. The 370-year-old secret is the neighborhood of Kyoto that Gekkeikan lives in, called Fushimi.

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 ...

Sitting at the water’s edge in a tiny, remote Japanese fishing village, I’m drinking sake brewed in the old wooden building behind me and eating food cooked by the head brewer’s mother.

With a similar alcohol content to vermouth and other fortified wines, sake is a surprisingly simple swap in classic cocktails. Sake shares a number of similarities with gin — a nuance ...

Japan’s nihonshu (Japanese rice wine, or sake) consumption has continually declined since its peak in the 1970s. Tokyo-based business Sakeice is spreading sake awareness locally and abroad with its ...

To celebrate the new season, the restaurant (In partnership with Gekkeikan-Sake and KIRIN ICHIBAN) created 4 special cocktails using seasonal ingredients. Fellow matcha lovers, the Midori no ...

Sake has not only symbolic importance as the national beverage in Japan, but is also popularly associated with Japanese food culture in overseas markets. The government has been protecting the ...