Product Details
Product Details
Polished to
0.85%
The most exclusive sake with limited annual capacity of just 999 bottles. The “ultimate meal-time sake” is crafted with Kura No Hana rice polished down to 0.85% (meaning that over 99.15% is polished away before brewing), making this a record-breaking bottle for special moments.
| Basic Information | |
| Alcohol % | 16 |
|---|---|
| Rice | Kura No Hana (Miyagi) |
| Water | Kurama underground water |
| Awards | IWC2022 (International Wine Challenge) Trophy; Kura Master 2022 (Sake Competition by French Sommeliers) Platinum Award |
Tasting Notes
Tasting Notes
The gentle aroma of grapes and strawberries, and the velvety and moist attack that lights up the palate like fireworks, then fades away instantly, leaving only a faint lingering aftertaste.
Flavors & Aromas
Grape
Strawberry
Intensity
Pairing
Pairs well with
Best served at
Hanahie
(10 °C)
Suzuhie
(15 °C)
Best served in
Wine Glass
Brewery Story
The Ultimate Food Sake
Founded in 1873, with the professed aim of delivering “the ultimate meal-time sake”, the brewery continues to hold itself to a support role, in deference to cuisine. The brewery’s head office is located in the south of the Osaki Plain in Miyagi Prefecture, where the Sasanishiki and Hitomebore rice variants originated from. However, the brewery struggled to make a profit, when 90% of all sake produced was basic sake (“Futsushu”) around the year 2000. It was when the 5th generation owner Niizawa returned to the brewery the predecessor was thinking about closing the brewery but Mr. Niizawa persuaded him to keep the brewery running and started a great turnaround.