Organic Junmaishu Wanotsuki 80 Kimoto Genshu 720ml (Japanese Sake)

• Category: Alcohol
• Brewery: Tsuki no I Sake Brewery
• Production area: Oarai Town, Ibaraki Prefecture
• Capacity: 720ml

Relaunched as Kimoto and Genshu!

Our popular organic sake has been renewed.

We brew it using the kimoto method, which does not add any lactic acid or yeast, and we insist on making everything by hand the old-fashioned way, from washing the rice to finishing.

Wa no Tsuki 80 is characterized by its flavor and color, which comes from using rice that is only lightly polished at 80% (the percentage of rice that has the surface layer removed from brown rice), which is close to brown rice.

Enjoy the complex flavors derived from the ingredients and the individuality of the brewery's kimoto brewing process.

As this is a raw sake that has not been diluted, the alcohol content is high at 20%. It can also be enjoyed warm with water or on the rocks, depending on your preference.

It is delicious either chilled or warm, making it the perfect drink to have with a meal.

A masterpiece filled with the desire for "safety and security"

The organic sake "Nanotsuki," created to commemorate the 140th anniversary of Tsukinoi's founding, is made from JAS-certified organic Miyamanishiki rice, wiped clean with hot water and a cloth, and has met the strict standards required to be called organic sake.

This sake is made with the utmost care and attention to detail, and is handmade in the traditional way, from washing the rice to finishing.

Producer: Tsuki no I Sake Brewery

Founded in 1865, the sake brewery started brewing under the name "Matsumae-ya" and has been brewing in Oarai, Ibaraki Prefecture for nearly 150 years. The name "Tsuki no I" is said to have been chosen in honor of the beautiful moonlight that shone on the golden and silver waves breaking on the shoreline. (This scene is also included in the Eight Views of Mito from the Tokugawa period.)

The sake is brewed with great care and precision by Nanbu Toji Brewer Kikuchi Masayoshi, one of Japan's three greatest Toji Brewers (*A Toji Brewer is the person in charge of overall command of sake brewing. He must be a person of great character who excels not only in sake brewing techniques but also in leadership, judgment, and management abilities), and the brewers (artisans involved in the brewing of sake and soy sauce), using their skilled techniques and senses.

The business was taken over by the eighth-generation head of the family, Naohito Sakamoto, and the original desire to create a unique, healthier sake became even stronger. Furthermore, we welcomed Tatsuya Ishikawa, a master brewer who is a leading expert in kimoto brewing, and renewed Wa no Tsuki to kimoto brewing.

Message from the producer

Normally, rice is polished a lot before making sake, but this stingy brewer thought it would be a waste to polish the organic rice so much that it turns into bran and then have to throw it away!

I tried making sake using rice that is as close to brown rice as possible.

The rice's delicious flavor is then directly transformed into sake, a type of sake similar to white wine.