Gozenshu Akatsuki Junmaï Daïginjô sake
Ref : NISGS50
€29.90
Tax Included
This sake was created by delicate method based on new thinking to present extremely pure and tasty sake which never existed.
The rice "Yamada nishiki" having the best grade produced in Mirai, Hyogo was polished into 35%.
After fermented slowly and carefully, it was separated into sake and sake lees by centrifugal separation (Enshin shibori) method at low temperature. It can extract only Umami essence of rice. You can enjoy mellow, pure and beautiful sake texture.
Akatsuki is a word that means "new dawn" and "sunrise" because this sake is a new modern style. This is the essence of Nihon shu, representing only 8% of the must after filtering. The sweet, rich scent and round, full-bodied mouth are appreciated with extreme clarity. Combining a high level of perfection with a delicate balance of flavors and aromas, this sake expresses a high-end umami. The Gonzenshu Akatsuki is very pale yellow, and on the nose, attention is immediately captured.
This Gozenshu is rather masculine, very mineral, of a great complexity.
The aroma is subtle and discreet and the first nose is very fresh. You will notice very floral notes (lily of the valley), green apple granny-smith accents (freshness of the green apple when you eat it), pineapple, green anise, citrus fruit, peach, Muscat, banana, or even straw notes.
The nose is powerful, concentrated, and the aromatic sources marked. Relatively mineral, saline, blind close to the Meursault. We like the aromatic length in the mouth that lasts 2 to 3 min, the intensity, the developed power (phenomenal and without power of alcohol), the notes of wild berries, the great richness, the very beautiful balance, the surprising harmony , the high purity, the delicacy of the texture, the very pleasant acidity, the very fine bitterness (sometimes a rather mirabelle side) the great fluidity, the fleshy, spicy and mineral finish.
A fabulous vintage !
Our perfect combination : by diluting it with champagne (20% Akatsuki - 80% champagne), the result is absolutely surprising, the champagne takes the taste and the aromas of a vintage!
It is almost impossible to detect the presence of Gozenshu Akatsuki.
For connoisseurs of Japanese gastronomy, you can even dip your hands in the Gozenshu Akatsuki and immediately make your onigiri (rice balls), perfuming them so divinely.
You can also soak a cloth of this nectar and wrap for 72 hours a beautiful rib of beef for which you prefer a sweet cooking, just medium rare done.
Another amazing suggestion is to empty the first water of a good oyster and pour a cap of Akatsuki. Rinse mouth with Gozenshu and enjoy immediately. The result is perfect, the iodine of the oyster and the Gozenshu remain perfectly in the mouth with a disconcerting length, extremely pleasant and balanced.
NISGS50
Data sheet
- Origin
- Miyagi, Japan
- Brewery
- Katsuyama Supreme
- Capacity
- 180 ml
- Packaging
- glass bottle dark colour, Lord Date Masamune armor colour (17th century, the fief Lord of the current Miyagi Prefecture)
- Ingredients
- Yamada Nishiki rice (Hyogo Prefecture), rice kôji
- Storage
- in the refrigerator between +2°C and +8 °C
- Volume of pure alcohol
- 16%
- Rice polishing ratio "seimaï-buai"
- 35%
- Acidity
- 1.6
- Filtering
- centrifugation
- Appearance
- very pale yellow color to very pale green color
- Palate
- pure umami of rice is spread. The sourness and sweetness are well balanced
- Idéal tasting temperature
- +8°C to +12°C
- Service
- Bordeaux wine glass
- Our tip
- Rotate the bottle (head to tail) 2 or 3 times. Rice starch saccharification generates glucose, which is more dense than the rest of the liquid. The glucose is at the bottom of the bottle and this rotation helps spreading uniformly throughout the bottle.
- Recommandation
- EXCESSIVE CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL IS DANGEROUS FOR YOUR HEALTH. DRINK WITH MODERATION. CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES DURING PREGNANCY, EVEN IN SMALL QUANTITY, CAN HAVE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE CHILD’S HEALTH. THE SALE OF ALCOHOL IS FORBIDDEN TO MINORS UNDER AGE 18
- Excise category
- I000
KATSUYAMA SUPRÊME SAKÉ Date Masamune was a lover of art and good meat, gourmet and particularly fond of fermented rice wines commonly called sake. Our Lord in question, in order to secure his permanent supply of sake, then appointed six financially well- established (prosperous) families to create real sake breweries and elaborate high-end sake to supply himself and his family. To do this, the families had to buy him the best rice, very expensive. The fruit of this rice trade also enabled him to maintain his armies. The Isawa family created the Katsuyama house at their request and started making homemade sakes: the Gozenchu. Since then, three and a half centuries have passed and, from these 6 elected families, only the Isawa family, owner and operator of the brand KATSUYAMA, has survived in the high end and continues brilliantly, led by the twelfth generation in the person of Jihei Isawa. It should be noted that the Date family still exists and that its current 34th generation continues to be provided by the Isawa family! The range we offer comes in 6 nihon-shu, among which 4 Gozenshu which tasting will surprise you enormously (their consumption was reserved, in the past, exclusively to the Lords). These Gozenshu are extraordinary, surprising, confusing, and rare and can’t leave you indifferent. One thing is certain, it will be very difficult for you, having tasted these nectars of the Lords, to revel in the same way with all the other sake or nihonshu present on the market.
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This sake was created by delicate method based on new thinking to present extremely pure and tasty sake which never existed.
Gozenshu Akatsuki Junmaï Daïginjô sake
€29.90
Tax Included
ALCOHOL ABUSE IS DANGEROUS FOR YOUR HEALTH. CONSUME IN MODERATION. CONSUMING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES DURING PREGNANCY, EVEN IN SMALL QUANTITIES, CAN HAVE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE HEALTH OF THE CHILD.
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