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Sampling the Rare Daiginjo Sake-Sake that Shows Nada's True Colors!
After our tour of Zuihogura, we arrived back at the museum, where we were greeted by two rare Sawanotsuru products. One of these was the honjozo nama-genshu. Unlike the honjozo genshu (undiluted sake) you buy in stores, this product is not pasteurized, giving it a faint sweetness and body. This superb sake would appeal to women. The other one was the daiginjo (super supreme) sake, "Shunshu," Sawanotsuru's ultimate product. This supreme sake uses the high-quality Yamada-nishiki rice polished to 33%, and is fermented using Sawanotsuru's own SK-33 yeast. Bringing the glass up to your nose reveals just the right scent of a good quality ginjo sake. The goodness of the rice comes out upon taking a sip. Some of this sake is put in special Kutani-yaki earthenware jars and sold in a limited edition for 330,000 yen each!-- out of reach of the average person, you could say. With recent popularity of locals sakes, a lot of people are putting down the taste of the large Nada sake companies. But Sawanotsuru really showed us what it is capable of. As a lover of sake, however, I regret that the company doesn't have a daiginjo that's a little more affordable (30,000 yen is too expensive).		Honjozo "Genshu" 720 ml Alcohol content: 18.8% Sake meter value: +2.0 Acidity: 1.7 Amino acidity: 1.5 144-ml bottle: 243 yen 720-ml bottle: 971 yen Daiginjo "Shunshu" Alcohol content: 16.8% Sake meter value: +5.0 Acidity: 1.4 Amino acidity: 10.8 1.8-l bottle: 30,000 yen 2.71-l earthenware: 330,000 yen
As we left, we were given a souvenir of our visit, and we sake reporters bid good-bye to Nada Nishigo. To everyone at Sawanotsuru and at Ohbayashigumi, we express our deepest gratitude. In the gift shop at the museum, items include sake-tasting cups, pickled vegetables, sake drinking utensil sets, limited edition sakes, sake sweet bean paste, and souvenirs made from recycled sacks that were used for filtration. [Sakagura Exhibition] Hours: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Closed: Wednesdays, Obon holiday (around early-mid August), year end and New Year Admission: Free (Note: Tours are only for groups of 10 people or more. Reservations are required.) For reservations and enquiries, call: General Affairs Division, Sawanotsuru 078-881-1234 Visit the Sawanotsuru home page at http://www.sawanotsuru.co.jp/.( Japanese only) Here you'll see photographs and learn about traditional ways of making sake at "The Museum Preview," learn about earthquake resistant construction of the soon-to-be-completed Sawanotsuru Museum, get product information, read comic strips, fill out our survey and get a chance to win Sawanotsuru sake with your own personalized label.