2024/02/24 Purchased Niigata Hasegawa-ya
Product name: Kamo Nishiki NIIGATA EDITION
Producer: Kamo Nishiki Sake Brewery
Production area: Niigata Prefecture / Kamo City
Sake rice: Yamadanishiki
Specific name: Junmai Daiginjo
Alcohol content: 15
This is Kamo Nishiki's Niigata-style light-bodied sake.
The aroma is mild, and the taste is made from the luxurious 40% polished Yamada-Nishiki rice.
It has a moderate body with a dignified and beautiful texture and freshness.
The simple quality of this sake makes it an excellent match for food.
The special order sake that was being worked on for the 100th anniversary of Shinsuke's founding in 2024 was completed.
Since April 5 is "Seimei," or the day of the 24 seasonal divisions, the sake will be unveiled on the first floor starting today. The price will be the same as before, but it will be sold in a different way.
Both the Honjozo and Junmai sake are made with 100% Akita Prefecture ingredients only.
The junmai sake, in particular, is made from sake-komachi (Akita-komachi, a type of rice used for sake brewing), which is produced in very small quantities. It is tuned to have a mellow aftertaste when compared to honjozo sake.
With the completion of this product, all Shinsuke's Ryoseki are now "special-order items that are not for sale to the general public.
Since Shinsuke = Ryoseki has been established, the special-order label boldly focuses on the type of sake and the ingredients, making the brewer's name smaller and removing the Hare no kisho (good omen) icons such as the phoenix and the chrysanthemum flower.
We trimmed the amount of information and adjusted the back bar to create a cozy view.
2025/02/24 Purchased Niigata Hasegawa-ya
Comment from Creative Director Fumihiko Sano
A new sake to be made in Nagaoka, Niigata.
What kind of sake will we make here for the first time?
As a prototype to think about what we will make and what we can do in the first year, we decided to use a simple title without giving a specific meaning to the name.
Maison Aoi Untitled 01, 2025
We did not prepare a specific etiquette for this bottle. The reason is that we wanted to express the state of something that is being made for the very first time, rather than expressing an impression of the sake.
The shoulders of the first batch of bottles are individually hand painted by the brewers, and no two bottles are the same.
As the bottles are shipped and transported, they are bumped, scratched, and wet, the paintings are rubbed, cracked, and peeled, and the time from the time they leave the cellar to the time they reach your hands continues to be etched on them, making them unique bottles.
Each bottle that arrives at your hand naturally expresses the time that has passed up to this point. The concept of the design is the manifestation of such time.
Purchased on 2025/02/09 Wadaya
Place of Origin Yamaguchi Prefecture
Rice: Yamadanishiki
Polishing ratio 39
Alcohol content: 16
Release Date: March 13th (Thursday)