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 ...

Sake. Japanese food. It sounds pretty obvious but not if you’re Naoto Mizuno, president of the much-lauded Kokuryu brand of ...

This special junmai daiginjo sake is made using 100% Uonuma Koshihikari rice, one of Japan’s finest rice varieties, bringing out the natural sweetness and umami of the rice to the fullest.

Asahi Shuzo Co. in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, launched “junmai daiginjo,” a bottle of the highest quality of sake, at the new Dassai Blue Sake Brewery under the Dassai Blue line.

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 ...

Consequently, Nina Murphy organizes her rice wine shop according to flavor profile rather than types of sake. After all, as Murphy explained, "There are junmai that taste like daiginjo ...

Kanbara is the junmai sake that Sato ages at room temperature ... Yuho Eternal Embers has the sweet umami flavor of enoki mushrooms. Even Yuho daiginjo exhibits a gamy brightness.

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.