Horin Junmai Daiginjo Sake in Gift Box
Ultra-premium & a good place to begin your journey into premium Sake.

Using select rice polished to 50% of its original size, this ultrapremium "junmai daiginjo" sake is slowly fermented at low temperatures to give it a refreshing fruit like aroma and mild flavor. Enjoy chilled or room temperature.

Add a Sake glass from Riedel to your order

In 1997, Riedel was approached by Fukumitsuya Co. Ltd. to develop the ideal glass shape for Japanese sake.  This glass was to be created according to Riedel's guiding glass design principle where the content determines the shape.  Recommended for Daiginjo Sake.

Riedel 'O' Line Sake Tumbler
 comes in a shipping tube

Sake Barrel - an authentic Taru
 imported from Gekkeikan Japan

Enjoy the smooth, mellow flavor of our Traditional Sake packaged in an authentic Japanese "Taru". This decorative barrel makes a unique display piece. Serve warmed, room temperature, or chilled.

Available in 1800 ml barrel 

Gekkakow - Vintage Junmai Daiginjo-shu Sake is a prestigious 2002 vintage sake brewed from Yamada Nishiki rice polished down to 35%. Cold matured for over three years.
Voted best Daiginjo in America.
Bright pineapple-coconut scent with licorice nuances. Fine, silky entry with salt-watery flow, rounded fullness in the middle, and a mouth watering, nectarine finish tinged with a whispering sweetness.

Kurahibiki - Daiginjo Sake brewed with well polished 43% special rice (Yamada Nishiki).

Elegant sake with citrus & melon aromas & complex flavors.

720 ml for $55.99

Kurashizuku - Kura means sake-brewery, and Shizuku is the first run of sake. Kurashizuku's flavor, color and fragrance are enriched by the careful first steaming and pressing of its rice.

Often called "antique" sake, Kurashizuku is Usu-Nigori, sake that has some sake yeast, rice and koji in the bottle while the bulk remains behind on the filtering cloth as Sake-Kasu cake.

Junmai Ginjo, Usu-Nigori - Alc./Vol 16.0%

Asamurasaki -

Sake Summit 2002 "Most Unusual " Sake:
"Asamurasaki "Morning Purple Red Rice Sake" by Kiuchi Sakery Japan, this is a sake made from red rice and is in fact, a red sake with an unusual taste.

Red rice was cultured in ancient times and is hardly used any more. This very unique sake is naturally red in color and slightly sweet with some definite berry-like aromas and flavours and has a slight "spritz" to the mouthfeel.

720ml bottle for $34.99 

Tarusake -

Matured in Akita Cedar Barrels

Tarusake was matured slowly in real Akita cedar barrels producing subtle aromas and flavors of cedar. This unique sake has some sweetness initially with some pepper notes, a little bitterness and some detectable wood.

Kiuchi Yuzu Wine - Fresh and light, the rage with many chefs of high-end restaurants who rave about the intense floral citrus fragrance.
Yuzu is a rare hybrid citrus fruit with a complex blend of lime, lemon, grapefruit & mandarin orange.
Serve like a white wine for fish, foie gras & steak. A great dessert wine served with meringue tarts or pineapple sorbet. (9% alcohol)

Minowamon by Fukushima (Junmai Daiginjyo) Graceful aroma of fruits with a delicate and lovely sweetness. Medium dry with sharp acidity.

Moriko by Yamaguchi (Daiginjyo) Elegant cool aroma. Light and delicate sweetness and acidity with a refreshing mint flavor. Medium dry.

Riedel "O" Sake Set

Nanbushi by Aomori (Yamahai Junmai) Smooth and rounded aroma of grain with a full body. Medium dry.

Sake Facts:

Sake contains 80% water, and natural spring water plays an important role in brewing sake.

Sake is made from steamed rice that has been polished to varying degrees:

Junmai sakes are more rustic & traditional with more body & assertive flavors.
The rice is polished down to 70% of its original size.

Ginjo premium sakes are made using a slightly simpler process than daiginjo
and using rice polished so that 60% remains.

Daiginjo literally means super premium. Brewed in a process where less than 50% of the rice grain's exterior
 is polished away to reveal its pure "starchy" heart, producing a light fruitiness and refreshing acidity
 which sets off the flavor of mild raw fish and salads.  Delicate and complex, with floral aromas and gentle, nutty flavors.