Sake

Tedorigawa is produced by the Nagayama Honke brewery in Ishikawa Prefecture, a house with more than a century of history in Japan's Hokuriku region...

Akitabare is brewed in Akita Prefecture by a house that still follows "Koshiki Junzukuri," or the old way of making sake. Many of the tools used at...

Masumi is produced by the Miyasaka Brewing Company, founded in 1662 in the town of Suwa, Nagano Prefecture. The brewery built its reputation on pre...

Dewazakura Shuzo is based in Tendo, a small city in Yamagata Prefecture known for its cold winters and clean mountain water, both ideal conditions ...

Kokuryu Shuzo was founded in 1804 in Eiheiji, a town in Fukui Prefecture nestled among the mountains near the head temple of Zen Buddhism's Soto se...

Kamoizumi Shuzo was founded in Hiroshima Prefecture by the Maegaki family, who originally worked the land as rice farmers before becoming an indepe...

Dewazakura Shuzo was founded in 1892 by Seijiro Nakano in Yamagata's fertile basin, a region ringed by mountains and blessed with heavy seasonal ra...

Izumibashi Sake Brewery is based in Kanagawa Prefecture, in Japan's Kanto region, an area known for combining traditional sake craftsmanship with a...

Dewazakura Shuzo was founded in 1892 by Seijiro Nakano in Tendo, Yamagata, and today the brewery is run by the fourth generation of the Nakano fami...

Kamoizumi Shuzo brews in Saijo, a district of Hiroshima that has been recognized as one of Japan's premier sake-producing areas for roughly three h...

Tedorigawa, known in Japanese as Kinka, or "Gold Blossom," is brewed by a small house in Ishikawa Prefecture that deliberately breaks from local co...

Tonoike Sake Brewery was founded in 1937 in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture, by Itsugoro Tonoike, whose family had been involved in sake brewing since ...

Hoyo is produced by Uchigasaki Brewing Company, founded in 1661 by Sakuemon Uchigasaki and now recognized as the oldest sake brewery in Miyagi Pref...

Dassai Blue is produced by Dassai Inc., formerly known as Asahi Shuzo, a Yamaguchi based brewery in Japan that famously rebuilt itself from near ba...

Snow Maiden is produced by Kizakura Brewery in Kyoto's Fushimi district, an area celebrated for centuries as one of Japan's great sake producing re...

Yukikage is produced by Kinshihai Shuzo, a brewery in Niigata Prefecture renowned for the exceptional quality of its local water, drawn from a sour...

Manga sake is produced in Hyogo Prefecture's Nada district, widely regarded as the birthplace of sake and still one of Japan's most respected brewi...

Otokoyama traces its roots back more than 340 years to Itami, near Osaka, where the sake was favored by members of the Tokugawa shogunate during th...

Genji takes its name from one of Japanese literature's most famous figures, Hikaru Genji, the hero of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh century classic T...

Shigemasu Crimson comes from Takahashi Shoten, a producer based in Fukuoka Prefecture on Japan's southern island of Kyushu. Rather than following t...

Izumo Fuji is produced by the Fuji brewery, founded in 1939 and still run today by the third generation of the Imaoka family in the town of Izumo. ...

Takara Sake USA was founded in 1983 in Berkeley, California, an American offshoot of Takara Holdings, whose roots as Takara Shuzo trace back to 184...

Heiwa Shuzo is based in Wakayama Prefecture, near the sacred Buddhist mountain of Koyasan, and draws its brewing water from the soft, clean springs...

Well of Wisdom is one of the founding releases of the Tozai brand, born in 2005 out of a collaboration between American importers Ed Lehrman and Ni...

Hagiwara Shuzo has been brewing sake since 1855 in Sakai, a small town in Ibaraki Prefecture that prospered for centuries thanks to river trade alo...

Sakura Bayashi comes from Asahi Shuzo Co., the Yamaguchi Prefecture brewery best known worldwide for its Dassai label. The company's story is one o...

Izumibashi Shuzo has been brewing in Kanagawa Prefecture since 1857, and the brewery's name reflects its roots directly, combining Izumi, for the r...

Choya Umeshu Co. is credited with bottling Japan's first widely distributed commercial umeshu back in 1959, transforming what had long been a homem...

The story behind Tentaka begins with a dream. Liquor wholesaler Motoichi Ozaki, while visiting Kyoto, envisioned a hawk soaring toward the heavens,...

Fine dessert sake, flavored with sour plums. Strong almond and fruit notes on the nose, with dried dates, cherries, plums and almonds embedded in a...

Akashi-Tai is the flagship "Grand Cru" sake from the Akashi Sake Brewery, the same Yonezawa family operation in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture that has b...

Akashi-Tai has been brewed by the Yonezawa family in Akashi, a city on Japan's Hyogo coast, since 1856, making it one of the longer running names i...

Akashi-Tai has been brewed by the Yonezawa family in Akashi, a city on Japan's Hyogo coast, since 1856, making it one of the longer running names i...

Akashi-Tai comes from the Akashi Sake Brewery in Akashi, a coastal city in Japan's Hyogo Prefecture where the Yonezawa family has been distilling a...

Living Jewel takes its name from Japan's colorful koi fish, prized for centuries as symbols of good fortune and perseverance. Their vivid colors an...

Okuden Kantsukuri takes its name from the Masumi no Kagami, a national treasure mirror housed at Suwa Taisha, one of Japan's oldest Shinto shrines,...