TENDO, Yamagata Prefecture--Serious rice wine drinkers overseas tend to fall over themselves trying to get their hands on “ginjo” high-quality sake produced by Dewazakura Sake Brewery Co.

The Rokkasen Brewery in northeastern Japan's Yamagata Prefecture started the process on Tuesday with about 300 bottles of sake made last month. The brewery had to cancel the procedure last year ...

We journey the JR Hakushin and Uetsu Main Lines of Niigata and Yamagata Prefectures in search ... At Niigata Station we sample sake from the dizzying array on offer. We visit an old brewery ...