[This wine helped create the role of Mitsui Hisashi in "A Man Should Drink"]
[The author of "A Man Should Drink Wine" Takehiko Inoue also likes to drink sake]
[Smooth taste, spicy but not irritating]
ZJ169 - Mitsui no Tobacco Junmai Ginjo +14 720ml
Special Price: $199/bottle
Origin: Japan/kushu
Ingredients: 100% Yamada Nishiki
Rice polishing ratio: 60%
Alcohol content: 14%
Date of manufacture: January 2025
The strong and spicy body of the wine can bring out a sharp and refreshing taste. It still has a good aroma even with the use of No. 9 yeast that can highlight the fruity aroma. The middle and late stages have a clean and solid taste, which is undoubtedly as concise and powerful as Mitsui Hisashi's three-point shot. It is said that the author of "A Man Should Drink Wine" Takehiko Inoue decided to name the character after the character after the sharp taste of the sake he drank. Even Mr. Takehiko Inoue set the number on Mitsui's jersey to be "14", which represents the alcohol content of this sake, 14%, and the +14 Japanese sake degree, which represents the spicy taste.
Inoue Co., Ltd.
Inoue Co., Ltd. was established in 1922 in Mitsui County, Fukuoka. Because of the place name, the sake brewed by its Japanese brewery toushi (the highest person in charge of brewing) was named "Mitsui no Kotobuki" because of the place name. The current fourth-generation president, Mr. Inoue Saetsugu, who is also the toushi, told us that Wakaba, Shigemasa and Mitsui no Kotobuki are known as the "Three Pillars of Fukuoka". Mitsui no Kotobuki has an alcohol content of +14 degrees. Among Japanese sakes, it is very spicy but not greasy, and it is crisp, refreshing and long-lasting. It is suitable for pairing with seafood. At that time, I received a notice from the editor-in-chief of "Weekly Shonen Jump" that Mr. Inoue Takehiko loved Mitsui no Kotobuki very much, so he set the three-point shooter Mitsui Kotobuki based on this, and the alcohol content also became his nickname.
Although the Inoue Co-mei Company is a winery with less than a hundred years of history, it has set an amazing record of winning awards for 15 of the 16 years that Mr. Inoue Saetsugu has been the head of the brewery, including the National Appraisal Council Gold Award, the Fukuoka National Tax Bureau Gold Award, and the Japan National New Sake Appraisal Council Gold Award, which shows the excellent performance of the Inoue Co-mei Company. Mr. Inoue, who is praised for "reproducing the passion for brewing in a scientific way", has the courage to try and pursue more possibilities based on Japanese sake, including the launch of Mitsui no Kotobuki Junmai Ginjo with Italian aesthetic labels similar to fine wine, based on the themes of spring clover (Quadrifoglio), summer cicada (Cicala), autumn mushrooms (porcini) and winter snow (Neve). The new taste not only opens up the young market, but is also loved by women and Japanese sake beginners, and also opens up a new generation of Japanese sake presentation.
