Tsuki no Katsura How are you Junmai Daiginjo Sake [Kyoto]

Product Name: Tsuki no Katsura "How are you" Junmai Daiginjo Sake, 720ml | Category: Japanese Rice Wine **Rice wine is made from fermented rice, water, koji, and yeast, and is brewed, not distilled, similar to wine production. Brewery: Masuda Tokubee Shoten Co., Ltd. | Sake Classification: Junmai Daiginjo | | 17 % ABV | 720ml Area: Fushimi, Kyoto | Serving Recommendations: Consume at temperature range from ~ 6 °C to 13 °C How are you? Junmai Daiginjo Sake is Tsuki no Katsuras masterpiece sake made from Yamada Nishiki rice produced in Special A District of Hyogo prefecture. The rice is polished down to 35% and is brewed slowly at a low temperature. Instead of undergoing modern mechanical pressing, a bag hanging technique is used by hanging the fermented sake mash in a cloth bag, and carefully collecting the sake which drips freely under gravity, without applying any pressure on it. This well-balanced and sophisticated sake has an elegant taste with a pleasant lily-like aroma, a harmonious sweet and sour taste, and a slightly dry and crisp finish. The name How are you? was created by a famous Japanese composer Mr. Dan Ikuma (), who is Masuda familys distant relative by marriage. Mr. Ikuma actively promoted cultural exchange with China and is very fond of Chinese characters (Kanji). One evening Mr. Ikuma and his wife were playing a game of idiom names in Kanji, and decided to name their favourite sake . Since the name ( Hawayu) sounds very similar to How are you when read in English, Tsuki no Katsura adopted How are you? as the official brand name for this sake as it has a sense of spirit that you won't forget once you hear it.