Product Information

raw materials

Rice (domestic), rice koji (domestic)

Rice production area, etc.

Tochigi prefecture (Kantou area)

Rice polishing ratio

60%

alcoholic content

16 degrees

sake leeway

+6

Tenaka Sake Brewery was founded in 1914 and is located at the southern end of the Nasu Highlands in northern Tochigi prefecture, in a rural area between two rivers, the Nakagawa and Broomstick Rivers. The brewery brews sake in an environment rich in nature, with clean air and soil, and an abundance of groundwater from the Nasu mountain range. The company name 'Tenaka' was given by the founder, who dreamt of a giant hawk soaring in the sky. The company has been brewing only dry sake since its foundation, believing that "if it is not dry, it is not sake". Always ahead of its time and unafraid of change, the company has always been "challenging sake brewing", for example by launching "rice-only sake" more than half a century ago, when the term "junmai-shu" (pure rice sake) did not exist.

The dry special junmai sake Amataka Mizuho-no-Sato is brewed with two types of rice - the sake rice Gohyakumangoku, which is ideal for sake brewing, and Asahi no Yume, which is delicious to eat - and brewed in-house, using the limpid water from the Naka River. It is a dry sake with a strong rice flavour and richness, soft acidity and a clean, crisp taste.