MAY 2024 — SAKE OF THE MONTH
JUNMAI GINJO FEST
YAMATO SHIZUKU MISATO NISHIKI JUNMAI GINJO
Uses 100% Misato Nishiki from Akita Prefecture. The chief brewer both personally cultivates sake rice and takes responsibility for brewing, a rarity in sake brewing. You can enjoy not only Japanese food, but also Chinese, Italian, and French with a sense of wine . Muroka and Namazume.
#4978 YAMATOSHIZUKU MISATONISHIKI 12/720ml
FUKUCHO BIHO JUNMAI GINJO
This elegant and intense brew has a nose of wisteria and fruit, and hints at crisp muscat grapes. Not only during fermentation, but after they squeeze and filter the sake, it is bottled and stored in strictly controlled low temperatures to preserve the Ginjo-style freshness and soft mouthfeel.
#8100 FUKUCHO “BIHO” JUNMAI GINJO 6/720ml
SHIMEHARITSURU JUN JUNMAI GINJO
Gohyakumangoku rice is polished down to 50%, and fermented very slowly at low temperatures, which enhances the natural umami of the rice, and produces a subtle aroma, and a round clean flavor. The most popular Junmai Ginjo sake amongst professionals in Japan for the past 2 decades.
#2982 SHIMEHARI TSURU “JUN” JMG 12/720ml W/BX