Takamine is a new whiskey made with koji ... Dr. Takamine, who was born into a samurai family in Japan in 1854 and moved to the United States at the urging of his American wife, was far from ...

Between 2015 and 2020, domestic whisky sales increased 50% ... one of roughly a hundred government-certified sake samurai.

The worlds of Japanese whiskey and American whiskey have been intertwined to some degree for a while—arguably since Suntory purchased Jim Beam and became Beam Suntory, gaining control of both ...