Lucy Simon is a New York-based wine, spirits, and food writer has been with Food & Wine since the spring of 2021. To drink sake or to drink wine, that is the question. As sake sales have skyrocketed ...

Welcome back to FTW’s Beverage of the Week series. Here, we mostly chronicle and review beers, but happily expand that scope to any beverage (or food) that pairs well with sports. Yes, even cookie ...

A few days ago I received a message, the kind of note that you prioritize and gets you excited. Turns out Richard Geoffroy was coming to Napa to showcase the project he’s been working on for years.

Sometimes we bump up against a libation category we haven’t learned to be discerning about for one reason or another. I have opinions about wine. I have opinions about beer. I have opinions on obscure ...

Sip or slurp? Warm or chilled? Cheap or high end? Many Americans are not experts when it comes to sake, the alcoholic beverage that is an integral part of Japanese culture. “We drink it at weddings, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Akiko Katayama covers Japanese food and culture. But they do. Sake has been increasingly popular among French people lately.

Courtney Kaplan talks about sake the way most people talk about their children: She’s giddy with admiration, full of stories and eager to share. Kaplan, who was once responsible for the sake selection ...

For the uninitiated, understanding sake can be tough. Its production process is entirely different from wine and beer. A variety of sake quality categories are also predicated on how finely ground the ...

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 ...