Sake specs
- Prefecture
- Nagano (長野)
- Rice type
- Domestic rice (国産米)
- Polishing rate (semaibuai)
- 60%
- Alcohol content
- 14%
- SMV
- +1
Chikumanishiki Tokubetsu Junmai (千曲錦 特別純米) is made of rice grown in Nagano and natural subsoil water from Mount Asama. It is slightly dry and has a refreshing taste. Recommended serving chilled.
About the brewery
- Brewery
- Chikumanishiki Shuzō
- Name in Japanese
- 千曲錦酒造
- Address
- 1110 Nagatoro, Saku, Nagano 385-0021
- Phone
- 0267-67-3731
- Website
千曲錦酒造株式会社
長野県佐久市にある日本酒の蔵元、千曲錦酒造株式会社の公式ホームページ。「千曲錦」「吉田屋治助」「帰山」「ライスワイン」などを丁寧に醸しています。
www.chikumanishiki.com
Hara Mino no Kami Toratane (原美濃守虎胤, 1497–1564), one of Takeda Shingen's Twenty-Four Generals, was feared as the 'Oni Mino'. His son, Hara Ōkuma Mamoru Toramasa (原大隈守虎昌), saved his master's life as a bannerman in the Battle of Kawanakajima and was awarded the land of Saku Iwamurada by the Takeda clan. Toramasa's son Jinzō (甚蔵) moved to Saku Iwamurada after the demise of the Takeda clan in 1582. In 1681, Wataru Hachirō (弥八郎), a descendant of Hara Jinzō, founded the brewery and the store called Yoshidaya (吉田屋), which exists to this day. In the Meiji period, Hara Jisuke (原治助) expanded the business into Tōkyō. Chikuma Nishiki Sake Brewery (千曲錦酒造株式会社) was formally established in September 1929. The company moved to its current location in 1962. In 1995, Uehara Yasunori (上原康徳) became the first tōji to be awarded the title of "Master Craftsman of Shinshū" by the prefectural governor.
Awards
- 2010: Kanto-Shinetsu National Taxation Bureau Liquor Appraisal Junmai Sake Category Gold Award (関東信越国税局酒類鑑評会 純米酒の部 金賞)
- 2011: Annual Japan Sake Awards (全国新酒鑑評会) Gold Award
- 2011: Kantō Shinetsu Regional Taxation Bureau Liquor Appraisal Ginjō Sake Category Gold Award
- 2013: Annual Japan Sake Awards (全国新酒鑑評会)
- 2013: Kantō Shinetsu Regional Taxation Bureau Liquor Appraisal Ginjō Sake Category Gold Award
- 2014: Annual Japan Sake Awards (全国新酒鑑評会) Gold Award
- 2015: Annual Japan Sake Awards (全国新酒鑑評会) Gold Award
- 2015: Kantō-Shinetsu National Taxation Bureau Liquor Appraisal Junmai Sake Category Gold Award
- 2016: Annual Japan Sake Awards (全国新酒鑑評会)
- 2017: Annual Japan Sake Awards (全国新酒鑑評会)
- 2017: Kantō-Shinetsu National Taxation Bureau Liquor Appraisal, Junmai Ginjō Sake Category Gold Award
- 2019: Annual Japan Sake Awards (全国新酒鑑評会) Gold Award
- 2020: Annual Japan Sake Awards Award (全国新酒鑑評会)
