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Provenance 500 Drinks Sake East Asian

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Amazake — Japan's Sweet Rice Drink

Amazake (甘酒, 'sweet sake') is a traditional Japanese fermented rice drink produced by saccharifying …

Amazake's earliest docume

Awamori — Okinawa's Ancient Spirit

Awamori (泡盛) is Okinawa's traditional distilled spirit — Japan's oldest continuously produced distil…

Awamori's earliest docume

Chinese Rice Wine — Shaoxing's Heritage

Shaoxing wine (绍兴酒, Shào xīng jiǔ) is China's most important and prestigious rice wine, produced in …

Shaoxing wine's history e

East Asian Food and Drink Pairing Philosophy

East Asian food and drink pairing philosophy differs fundamentally from European traditions — rather…

East Asian food and drink

Filipino Lambanog — Coconut Palm Spirit

Lambanog is the Philippines' traditional coconut palm spirit — a naturally fermented (tuba) and dist…

Coconut palm tapping for

Hong Kong and Singapore Craft Spirits — City Distilling

Hong Kong and Singapore represent Asia's most cosmopolitan craft spirits hubs — city-states where mu…

Hong Kong's craft spirits

Huangjiu — China's Yellow Wine

Huangjiu (黄酒, 'yellow wine') is China's oldest and most historically significant category of ferment…

Huangjiu production dates

Japanese Craft Gin — Botanicals from the Land of the Rising Sun

Japanese craft gin is the global spirits industry's most exciting botanical frontier — applying Japa…

Japan's first craft gin d

Japanese Highball — Whisky Meets Effervescence

The Japanese Highball (ウイスキーハイボール, Uisukī Haibōru) is not simply whisky and soda — it is a Japanese …

The Highball concept arri

Junmai Daiginjo — The Pinnacle of Sake

Junmai Daiginjo is the highest grade of sake — 'Junmai' (pure rice, no added distilled alcohol) comb…

The Daiginjo grade as a f

Kimoto and Yamahai Sake — Traditional Brewing

Kimoto and Yamahai are the two most historically significant traditional sake starter (moto) methods…

Kimoto brewing documented

Korean Bokbunja-ju — Black Raspberry Wine

Bokbunja-ju (복분자주) is a Korean fruit wine produced from the wild Korean black raspberry (Rubus corea…

Bokbunja has been harvest

Korean Makgeolli — The Farmer's Wine

Makgeolli (막걸리) is Korea's oldest alcoholic beverage — a lightly sparkling, cloudy, low-alcohol (5-8…

Makgeolli production date

Korean Traditional Liquors — Makgeolli to Cheongju

Korea's traditional fermented beverages span a rich spectrum from cloudy makgeolli (lightly filtered…

Korea's traditional liquo

Mirin — Japan's Sweet Cooking Wine

Mirin (味醂) is one of the foundational elements of Japanese cuisine — a sweet rice wine used almost e…

Mirin production in Japan

Nigori Sake — Unfiltered and Cloudy

Nigori (にごり) sake is unfiltered or coarsely filtered sake that retains rice solids, creating its cha…

Nigori sake predates clea

Osmanthus Wine — Chinese Flower Spirits

Osmanthus wine (桂花酒, Guìhuā jiǔ) is one of China's most ancient and poetic beverages — a wine or liq…

Osmanthus cultivation and

Plum Wine — Asian Fruit Wine

Plum wine (梅酒, Umeshu in Japanese; 매실주, Maesil-ju in Korean) is one of Asia's most beloved fruit liq…

Umeshu production in Japa

Sake Brewery Culture — Toji and Kurabito

The sake brewery (kura, 蔵) and its human culture — the toji (head brewer) and kurabito (brewing work…

The toji guild system eme

Sake Cocktails — East Meets West

Sake cocktails represent one of the most exciting frontiers in contemporary mixology — the combinati…

Sake cocktails began appe

Sake — Japan's Rice Wine

Sake (日本酒, Nihonshu) is Japan's national beverage and one of the world's most complex fermented drin…

Sake production in Japan

Sake Lees — Kasu and Zero-Waste Brewing

Sake kasu (酒粕, sake lees) is the solid by-product remaining after sake pressing — the compressed ric…

Sake kasu's use in Japane

Shochu Cocktails — The Izakaya Revolution

While shochu has a long tradition of diluted service (mizuwari, oyuwari, on the rocks), the 21st cen…

The shochu cocktail tradi

Sparkling Sake — Awa Sake

Sparkling sake (発泡清酒, happoshu) represents one of the most dynamic and internationally appealing exp…

Traditional sparkling sak

Taiwanese Craft Beer — The Pacific Rim Frontier

Taiwan's craft beer revolution is one of Asia's most dynamic brewing stories — from a country domina…

Taiwan's state beer monop

Taiwanese Fruit Spirits — Lychee, Mango and Tropical Innovation

Taiwan's extraordinary tropical fruit production — the country is among Asia's finest sources of lyc…

Taiwan's tropical climate

Taiwanese Oolong Tea Spirits — Tea-Infused Craft

Taiwan is home to some of the world's most prized oolongs — Dong Ding, High Mountain (Alishan, Li Sh…

The concept of tea-infuse

Taiwanese Whisky Cocktails — Kavalan in the Mix

As Kavalan and Taiwan's whisky scene have gained international recognition, bartenders across Asia a…

The Kavalan cocktail cult

Tibetan Chang and Mongolian Airag — Nomadic Ferments

Chang and Airag are the fermented beverages of the world's most inhospitable high-altitude and stepp…

Airag has been produced i

Vietnamese Rice Wine — Rượu Đế and Lao Lao

Vietnam and Laos produce distinctive rice spirits that represent the Southeast Asian branch of the E…

Fermented rice beverages