Dassai 23
Sake Profile:
| Type of Sake: | Junmai Daiginjoshu |
| Rice Variety: | Yamada Nishiki Rice |
| Rice Polished Ratio: | 77% |
| AVB: | 15.5% |
| Sake Meter Value: | +3 |
| Acidity: | 1.2 |
| Optimum Serving Temperature: | 10-12°C |
Tasting Notes:
Delicate and juicy nose rich with fresh florals, peach, and honeydew melon. Characteristic smoothness and viscosity of daiginjo. Melon-chiffony palate best suited to drinking chilled.
Food Matching:
Cheese, fish dishes, oysters
Story of Sake:
Asahi Shuzo only uses the finest, locally produced Yamada Nishiki rice to make this very special junmai daiginjoshu. The 23 in its name, Dassai 23, comes from the fact that the rice is polished to just 23% of its original size. This is the highest degree of milling of any sake in Japan. Lauded by sake experts the world over, the resulting sake is delicate of flavour, incredibly refined and subtle. As the brewery mills away 77% of the original rice, brewing such a sake takes a great deal of effort and time, but these numbers are, in a way, nothing more than arbitrary; the brewery and its workers are primarily concerned with creating Japan’s finest sake.
Asahi Shuzo
Website: www.asahishuzo.ne.jp
Location: Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Yamaguchi prefecture is located at the very western tip of Honshu, Japan’s largest island. Its coastline stretches for around 1,500 metres. To the south is the Seto Inland Sea and the seascape dotted with islands, idyllic in contrast to the violent waves of the Japan Sea, which lies to the north. Iwakuni City is in the easternmost part of the prefecture, hugging the coastline of the Seto Inland Sea; inland, the town is bordered with the highest peaks in the prefecture.
Climate: Iwakuni has the moderate climate of the Seto Inland Sea region, being in the southern part of Yamaguchi prefecture, with the Chugoku mountain range to the north. There is little rainfall, and it has a relatively temperate climate all year round.
Local Specialty: Blowfish, Iwakuni sushi, lotus root
Landmark: Kintaikyo Bridge, Iwakuni Castle, Momijidani Park
