“I’d been through a life in medicine, a life in winemaking.” It’s this instinct that led Geoffroy to leave Dom Pérignon with the intent to blend Japan’s signature beverage, sake, bringing his IWA 5 ...

Graney’s Bar & Grill on New Scotland Avenue in Albany has been sold to the owner of Sake Cafe, who plans to keep the Graney’s name and sports bar concept. Mike Graney in 2011, when he opened ...

The company behind the sake brand Dassai is developing low-gravity fermenting technology, set to launch into space in late 2025 Luke Chinman is an editorial intern at PEOPLE. He joined PEOPLE in 2024.

The old way of making Japanese sake is finally getting its due. This week, UNESCO officially added the Japanese rice wine to its list of the "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.” ...

Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It's brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savored in the country’s pub-like izakayas, poured during weddings and served slightly ...

Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters of the Japanese rice wine that is the product of brewing techniques dating back more than ...