Sake, the Japanese beverage made from fermented rice, is having a moment. For years, Americans drinking sake likely sipped it warm from tiny ceramic cups at sushi restaurants. But that’s changing as ...

WINE NOTES: Sharona Tsubota gives some inside tips on serving and sipping the Japanese rice wine By KATHERINE COLE Special to The Oregonian When Sharona Tsubota graduated from college in 1990, she ...

Sunflower Sake Photo by Nina Murphy. Portland’s first shop dedicated solely to sake is now open inside a speakeasy alleyway, serving varieties you’d never find at your average neighborhood sushi ...

Sake rice wine was made some 2,000 years ago, not long after wet cultivation of rice was introduced in Japan, although its origins may go as far back as 4,000 B.C. Methods of serving sake appeared in ...

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Sake is 2,000 years old in Asia, but here it’s just hitting puberty. “We’re at that point where wine was in the 1950s, when people didn’t know what Burgundy was,” says restaurateur David Haskell. Next ...

OME, Japan (AP) — Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters (2,640 gallons) of the Japanese rice wine that is the product of brewing ...

I must say I didn't know much about sake before I visited SakeOne in Forest Grove, Oregon's only brewery of the traditional Japanese rice wine. And I left still not knowing a lot, but now I have a ...

“We’re not trying to pretend that we’re making traditional Japanese sake,” Brandon Doughan, the co-founder of Brooklyn Kura, the first sake brewery in New York, told me on a recent Friday morning, as ...

Reporting from Oakland — When I ask Yoshihiro Sako of Den Sake Brewery whether his first love was wine or sake, he answers slowly, as if it were a trick question. “Sake.” Then, with a smile: “Of ...

Meet the young brewers bringing this ancient rice wine tradition into the spotlight.