In a country better known for sake, Japanese wine has made decent strides over the past decade. Domestic wines have snagged accolades at competitions like the Decanter World Wine Awards ...
Japanese wine culture is relatively new compared to the French, but there are a few similarities as well. Here's how the two country's wine production relates.
California was once a hotbed of Japanese wine producers, until 20th-century legislation boxed them out. Over a hundred years later, a comeback is underway. Shana Clarke is a freelance journalist ...
Soga was born into a winemaking family based in the central Japanese prefecture of Nagano. He studied brewing at university and worked for a while as a microbiologist. But his passion for wine ...
However, a casual comment from his father uncovered family roots in wine, and a much deeper history of Japanese winemakers in the state. The U.S. has long had a fraught history with immigration.
of the Japanese rice wine that is the product of brewing techniques dating back more than 1,000 years. Junichiro Ozawa, the 18th-generation head of Ozawa Brewery, founded in 1702, hopes sake ...