Kikusui Karakuchi Sake

Description

Sake: Kikusui Karakuchi

Kikusui’s most popular Sake in restaurants in Japan

Size: 720mL

Proof: 30 (15% ABV)

Origin: Japan

Distillery: Kikusui Sake Company

This Sake has a captivating smoothness and crisp dry finish. Due to its medium body it can provide the perfect balance to any meal making it our most popular product in Niigata’s restaurants. This Sake has the versatility and balance to be enjoyed at a wide range of temperatures from on the rocks to warmed.

Kikusui Karakuchi Sake Tasting Notes

Nose: The Nose Pours pale and colourless with no head. Aroma is dry wooden and rice fruity. Sweet and fruity, light dry rice and wooden note. Slight phenolic into a dry and wooden finish.

Palate: The palate is Aroma is dry wooden and rice fruity. Sweet and fruity, light dry rice and wooden note.

Finish: Slight phenolic into a dry and wooden finish.

Distillery Information

With 130 years of history on their shoulders, the Kikusui Sake Company of Niigata prefecture built themselves up from the bottom. The name “Kikusui” is a reference to a Noh theatre play, wherein the dew (Sui) from the petals of chrysanthemums (Kiku) grant eternal life.

In 2004 they established the Kikusui Sake Research Institute in an effort to both raise the bar on the quality of their offerings and wrestle with concepts such as enjoyment of sake, and sake culture. They are proud to produce “Funaguchi” – Japan’s first commercially available Nama (unpasteurized) sake.