About This Product :
The Sake:
Hakkaisan Tokubetsu Junmai is brewed specially for the American market. The rice is polished down to 60% to produce a clean Junmai style sake. Its well-balanced mellow and elegant flavor is tailored to match not only delicate Japanese cuisine but also a wide range of food from other cultures.
The Translation of the Name:
八海山 Hakkaisan is the name of the mountain directly behind the brewery, but its name can be translated as “Eight-peaked Mountain.”
Prefecture: Niigata
Rice: Gohyakumangoku
Kakemai: Koshibuki
Semaibuai: 60%
Yeast: Kyokai no. 9
SMV: -1
Acidity: 1.5
Amino acids: 1.3
ABV: 15.5%
The Pairing:
The joy of this sake is its incredible vast ability to pair with food. Due to its soft, mineral neutrality and easy acidity, this sake can pair with many things, but our favorite pairing is with nigirizushi. Salmon nigiri, tuna nigiri, octopus, you name it, and this sake taste great with it.
The Serving :
Hakkaisan Toku-Jun can be served chilled, room temp, warm, or hot. However, we prefer ice-cold, like the mountain-top it came from.
The Format:
Bottle- 720ml and 300ml
The Brewery:
Founded in 1922, Hakkaisan Brewery is situated at the foot of Mount Hakkai in Niigata. The spring water that flows from the mountain is used to produce its sake. The guiding principles of the brewery are to produce the finest sake that people will never tire of, to apply the highest standards of production to all its sakes, and in order to achieve the smooth wonderfully pure and mellow flavors of Hakkaisan sake, the Brewery insists on producing in small batches, using hand-made koji and slow fermentation at low temperatures.
