The Rice:
Uses 100% contract supplier Yamada Nishiki rice.  Brewed only locally produced Yamada Nishiki rice, which is carefully refined at in-house
mill to a 50% polish rate.

Translation of the Name: 春鶯囀 Shunnouten = Spring Warbler’s Song

Prefecture: Yamanashi
 Rice: Local Yamadanishiki
Semaibuai: 50%
SMV: +3
Acidity: 1.4
ABV: 15%

The Sake:
It is a beautiful sake with a faint ginjo (fruity) scent, and a sharp, refreshing taste exhibiting the savoriness of rice.  Drink cold, or at room temperature.

The Format:
Bottle- 720ml in decorative black box

The Brewery:
Yorozuya Brewery has a long, beautiful and romantic history.  Founded 230 years ago, the name of their brand, “Shunnouten” comes from a particular event in their past.  A female poet named Akiko Yosano stopped at the brewery, and upon drinking the sake brewed there, she was inspired to compose a poem, and compared the feeling of drinking at the Yorozuya brewery to hearing spring warblers in the temples.  It relates to an even earlier song from the Tang dynasty, but that’s another story.  Spring warbler, in Japanese, is Shunnouten.  What a compliment!  The poem is engraved in stone at the brewery- please visit it sometime yourself.

◉ Yorozuya Brewery Website
◉ Other Shunnouten Sake at E-Corp