Ichizuchi Integral Junmai Daiginjo - 720ml

Ichizuchi Integral Junmai Daiginjo is a Crown Jewel under the best of the best sake produced in Japan. This sake boasts a refined nose with creamy aroma, delicate notes of strawberry, melon, peach, pear, and subtle herbs. Its smooth texture with lots of layers, rounded mouthfeel is perfectly balanced by a gentle tartness, leading to a pleasant fine and a deep, satisfying everlasting finish—an exceptional choice for connoisseurs. 

This sake is best served cold in the special Sophienwald sake glass with your best friends or nearest family.

Made with Aiyama sake rice which is one of the best sake rice from Japan mainly grown in Hyogo. Due to its relative large starch core compared to other rice varieties less polishing is needed to get the same results of pure starch then for instance the king of sake rice Yamada-nishiki. Polishing to Ginjo or even Daiginjo levels is very difficult.

As almost always, the fact that lots of high end sake produced by the top breweries from Japan make with the Aiyama rice is due an accident, in this case the Great Hanshin Earthquake. The earthquake destroyed dozens of breweries in Hyogo and some never started brewing again. 

The main brewer using this rice, Kenbishi Brewery was heavenly damaged during this earthquake and were not able to produce sake so another brewer stood up to purchase the Aiyama rice which was mend for Kenbishi. This brewery was Takagi brewery from Yamagata brewing under the name of Juyondai. Juyondai like Denshu and nowadays The Noguchi Institute are cult breweries and this way Aiyama rice became famous throughout Japan and is nowadays getting more fame worldwide.