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The theme for 2024 is "timeless sake brewing," and Mitsuo Yamakawa will travel back and forth between different eras.
Otokoyama Shuzo, the brewery in charge of this year's brewing, will focus on 1998, the last year of the tenure of Shiro Sasaki, the Nanbu Touji who decided the direction of the brewery, and brew this sake by faithfully reproducing as much as possible the methods used by Touji Sasaki in the past, while the way of sake brewing has changed with time.
The rice used is Yamagata Prefecture's sake rice, "Dewa Sanzu. It is the most familiar rice with a characteristic that stands out for its high whiteness, clean taste, and softness, and the sake was dry, aroma-less, elegant, and honest, just as Touji Sasaki likes it.
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