Akishika Omachi Yamahai Junmai Sake Kisi Rich and round

Rich and round

which is surrounded by the picturesque mountaintops of the Jura

an ideal accompaniment to the cheese course

Harvest levels are usually under 30 hectoliters per hectare (25% less than the permitted amount)

Fermented spontaneously and aged in concrete vats until the Spring

Akishika Omachi Yamahai Junmai Sake Kisi Rich and roundMost sake brewers buy their rice some from contracted farmers, most from unknown sources. "From our own fields to bottle" is the motto of Akishika Shuzo, where 6th generation kuramoto Oku Hiroaki made a decision to take the brewery as close as it gets to being self sustained for rice production. Breaking with the production methods of postwar Japan and going against the trend of the time, Oku san was one of the initial pioneers of junmaishu, sake made