Sake Makers Hope for UNESCO Listing — VOA Learning English
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The Japanese rice wine called sake is made using ancient brewing methods. They date back more than a thousand years.
Junichiro Ozawa, the 18th-generation leader of Ozawa Brewery, founded in 1702, hopes sake-brewing will win recognition as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Officials of the UN agency are expected to decide on the nomination next month.
“We always think about the people who’re enjoying our sake when we make it. I’m now so excited, imagining the faces of all the people around the world,” he told reporters during a visit to the brewery on the edge of Tokyo.
Sake was the drink of choice of the nobility represented in Japan’s most celebrated work of writing, The Tale of Genji.…
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