In 1992, Tanabe founded Japan’s first school for wine professionals, and in 2013, established the increasingly successful Sakura Japan Women’s Wine Awards. The next year, Tanabe made her first vintage ...

Goto uses aged genshu sake and gin in the drink, and garnishes it with a salt-pickled sakura, or cherry blossom. Combine sake, gin, and cherry liqueur in a cocktail mixing glass filled with ice ...

sakura wine, green vanilla soda and sakura flower, and the Sakura Punch using gin with lacto-fermented cacao, soursop, coconut milk and sour cherry. “The gin has delicate fragrance, highlighted ...