
TOKYO -- When entrepreneur Benjamin Knopp moved to Tokyo in 2017, he was eager to explore the world of sake but had no clue where to begin.
An avid wine enthusiast with a background in the food and beverage industry, he figured that he could start learning about the Japanese beverage by taking the same approach he used to get into wine: "I thought that it would be enough to drink sake at a sushi restaurant or izakaya and then try to pick out something similar in a supermarket. Well, I was wrong," Knopp recalls.