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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among Ozawa’s sake is the full-bodied aromatic Junmai Daiginjo, one of the top offerings, with 15% alcohol content and costing about 3,630 yen ($23) for a 720 milliliter bottle. Karakuti ...

A sake like junmai ginjo is lighter and more ... if you're serving steak tartare or using the sous vide method, junmai ginjo or junmai daiginjo sakes have a light, elegant fruitiness that pairs ...

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.

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.

Junmai, ginjo, daiginjo, honjozo, and namazake – the words you’re most likely to see on modern-day wine lists – are the five main kinds of sake. Each style is brewed in a different way and ...