Sak

Question 1

Mutsu-Hassen ‘Prototype’ Sparkling (500mL) Aomori - | - | 135
Junmai

What is white koji method
SMV
Water hardness
Where is Aomori

Answer 1

White Koji style is when only white koji is used and as it grows slower you can increase the fermentation which results in higher citric acid production.

-37 SMV (Quite sweet)

Water is quite soft coming down from mountains

Aomori is just under sapporo and hokkaido, top of the second island

Question 2

Melbourne Sake (750mL)
Junmai Muroka Nama Genshu

2 interesting facts
SMV

Answer 2

90% Sake Polishing
Australian rice

Question 3

Koueiku ‘Sunburst’ Muroka Nama Genshu Saga $21 $57 Bottle $322 1800ml

2 INteresting facts

Water Hardness - Saga
Where is Saga
Polishing Ratio

Answer 3

A relatively new brewery with a master sake brewer - Katsuaki Yamamoto

Saga is in Kyushu (very south) is medium hard coming from rivers and waterfalls

50% polishing ratio

Question 4

Imayo Tsukasa ‘IMA’ (720mL)
Junmai Niigata 21 | 55 | 150

2 facts

Where is niigata
Water Hardness
Polishing ratio

Answer 4

65% polishing
Specifically designed for oysters
Umami and high malic acid
Niigata is right in the middle of Japan with some of the softest water in the country.

Question 5

Banjo Jozo ‘Eau Du Désir’ (1800mL)
Junmai Daiginjo Nagoya 24 | 65 | 380

where is nagoya
Water hardness
Polishing ratio

Answer 5

They make wine in Burgundy and as such they make sake in a simialar vein, domaine style, owning the fields of rice they make sake from.

Nagoya is coastal region in the central - south and next to kyoto

Water hardness is soft next to aichi

Polishing ratio is 50%

Question 6

Tamagawa ‘Red Label’ (1800mL)
Junmai Yamahai Muroka Nama Genshu Kyoto

Where is kyoto
Water softness
polishing ratio

Answer 6

Kyoto is in central southern japan,

Water is very soft from mountains.

Polishing ratio is 66% a little more earthy and slow ferments lots of amno acids so more savoury.

Question 7

Kenbishi ‘Kuromatsu’ (900mL)
Honjozo Nada

INterersting facts

Answer 7

4th oldest sake brewery in Japan, samurai used to drink

Question 8

Kameman (500mL)
Junmai Genmaishu Kumamoto 26 | 68 | 125

Polishing ratio

Answer 8

Unpolished 100% rice is crushed to expose the heart as opposed to polishing

Only buys organic rice - ducks swimming through the rice paddies

Shuichi Takada - uncle professor at Tokyo University e couraged him to use unpolished brown rice, also encouraged mankai to use red rice

Question 9

Mukai ‘Ine Mankai’ (720mL)
Junmai Genshu Kyoto 26 | 70 | 200

What kind of rice

Answer 9

Mukai Ine Mankai red rice (Murasaki - Red & Iwai white)

Polishing ratio - red rice is 90% white is 70%