What Is Sake? A Wine Lover’s 3-Minute Introduction
Sake is a Japanese drink brewed from rice, water, koji, and yeast—not a spirit, not quite a wine. Here is what sake actually is, in three minutes, for wine lovers.
Sake is a Japanese drink brewed from rice, water, koji, and yeast—not a spirit, not quite a wine. Here is what sake actually is, in three minutes, for wine lovers.
Honjozo has a little distilled alcohol added; junmai has none. Does that make honjozo worse? No—here is the science of what added alcohol actually does.
Junmai, ginjo, daiginjo: the difference is just two things — how much the rice is polished, and whether alcohol is added. How to read any sake label.