Lady Drinking Sake in Nikko

This waitress said this is the proper way to hold the sake cup.  Sake, often spelled saké is a Japanese rice wine, made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran. Unlike wine, in which alcohol is produced by sugar that is naturally present in grapes, sake is produced by a brewing process more like that of beer, where the starch is converted into sugars before being converted to alcohol.