【International Wine Challenge 2019 Gold Award】
【International Wine Challenge 2020 Gold Award】
[Selected as the state banquet wine by Shinzo Abe]
[Designated wine for many high-end restaurants in New York]
[Designated wine at Mi Zhilian 28 Stars Restaurant]
The name of Dassai's sake uses numbers to represent the steps of rice polishing. "Two-thirds" means that only 23% of the most essential part of each grain of rice is used for brewing. It is dripping with glycol and has a fragrant fruity aroma.
Asahi Shuzo
Asahi Shuzo, located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, was founded in 1947. The place where the brewery is located is named "Tagotsu".
River otters will arrange the caught fish and shells on the shore, which is like a festival. The former president, Mr. Hiroshi Sakurai, unexpectedly took over the business from his father, faced various bankruptcies, and was not favored by Doshi, with no one willing to make wine for him.
Mr. Sakurai found an innovative way out of the predicament, broke the rule that only Doshi can brew sake, and began to try to brew sake using modern scientific methods. All process steps are recorded, and special data analysis positions are set up to store and track various data such as temperature and proportions, and make continuous adjustments. Then the centrifuge, which was originally only used in laboratories, was introduced to separate the wine. (That is, the wine produced by telecentric separation has a very small yield and can bring out the aroma of the wine without adding alcohol).
In addition, Asahi Shuzo only uses Yamada Nishiki, the king of sake rice. Only high-quality brewing companies recognized by farmers will have the opportunity to obtain "Yamada Nishiki". Asahi Shuzo has also delved into the technology of grinding rice. All its wines use rice cores with a polishing step of less than 50, starting with Dassai 50, then finely milled into three-quarters, then finely milled into two-thirds, and finally to Yuanxin. The separation is divided into three parts and nine parts, and finally the distance is separated into two parts and three parts.
Each category is the culmination of craftsmanship and innovation.
market breakthrough
Mr. Sakurai expanded the market from being limited to regional sales to opening up new retail markets in Tokyo. Asahi Shuzo is now taken over by the fourth-generation president Kazuhiro Sakurai. In recent years, Asahi Shuzo has been actively operating the Dassai brand. It not only entertains distinguished guests from all over the world at Japanese state banquets, but also cooperates with many internationally renowned Michelin restaurants. Let Das Matsuri be no longer just Das Matsuri in Japan, but Das Matsuri around the world and let the world know what the best example of Japanese sake is.
ZTJ103 - Dassai 2/3 Junmai Daiginjo（Gift box）
原價：$460/支
Region/Level: Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan/Junmai Daiginjo
Raw rice: 100% Yamada Nishiki
Rice polishing steps: 23%
Alcohol content: 16%
Capacity: 720ML
Production date: Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Taste: The aroma is fragrant, giving people a sense of elegance. The wine is fresh, elegant and restrained, with a long-lasting aftertaste. The gorgeous sweetness and slight sourness of the original rice form a rich and fragrant, rice-flavored and pure taste.
The winemaker made a personal pilgrimage to Asahi Shuzo to experience what is the best example of Japanese sake.
