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Dassai
Dassai 23
Junmai Daiginjo from Yamaguchi, Japan
SKU: 000020-JP46001
Alcohol Volume: 16.5%
Polishing Ratio: 23% SMV: 4
$148.50 $135.00
Rice
Tasting Note
Rice milling of 23%, highest of all commercial sake. Gorgeous aroma of melons and peaches, and elegant, long dry finish. A variety show once featured Dassai 23, in an easy-going way, where the participants had to guess from tasting three different sake which one was the real Dassai – something that is often done with wine in this kind of comedy shows. One of the participant soon guessed it right, saying: “This one is different from all of the sake I’ve ever tried. It tastes good, not like the bad experiences I had until now, so this must be the real Dassai”. These words greatly demonstrated what we have always been saying, that anyone could know what a good sake is just by drinking it. There are no such things as sake that only connoisseurs understand. Please drink it slowly, enjoy it slowly, so that Dassai 23 could show you all of its charms.
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Dassai
“Dassai” literally means "otter festival". This is a word that was used long ago in our region, Yamaguchi Prefecture, as there were many otters frolicking in the nearby rivers. Otters would lay out on the shore fishes they caught, almost as if they are showing them off – like one would do during in a festival. A famous haiku poet named Masaoka Shiki took “Dassai” as a penname, because he would often scatter his reading material all over his room in much the same way otters spread out fish. More importantly, Masaoka has revolutionized Japanese literature during Meiji era. And because we want to convey this notion as well, as part of our philosophy of sake crafting. The theme underlying Dassai sake is "Making sake is making dreams: opening a new era of sake". To us, this means that we shall never be obsessive about traditions or handcrafted techniques, but rather we want to revolutionize sake crafting, in so doing make a sake like no one has ever tasted.
