• Prefecture: Mie

• Style: Junmai

• Food pairings: Spinach salad, shrimp tempura, smoked salmon, caviar canapés

• Taste: Fruity, gently sweet, softly tart, medium-bodied

• Alc.: 15.5%

Miyanoyuki Junmai opens with a tender nose of white peach, fresh rice cake and young tree buds, and its aroma shifts pleasantly as the sake opens up in the glass. Moderate sweetness and soft acidity spread evenly across the palate, giving a balanced, medium-bodied sake that sits comfortably alongside food. It was served at the Ise-Shima Summit with caviar canapés, prosciutto, smoked salmon and mozzarella, tomato canapés and macarons, and works just as well with spinach salad, cured salmon or shrimp tempura.

SMV: +0.5

About the brewery

Miyazaki Honten was founded in Mie in 1846 and brews with clear groundwater from the Suzuka mountain range. Its Miya no Yuki sake, named for Ise Jingu and the snow on the Suzuka range, is made with pure cultured yeast and hand-made koji fermented slowly at low temperature. The company is also one of Honshu's largest shochu producers, best known for Kinmiya, a fixture of Tokyo's shitamachi drinking culture.

味に 厚 みを 感 じる 、 こだわりの 純米酒手造りの 麹 と 純粋酵母 で 低温 でじっくり 醸 した 厚 みのある 純米酒 。軽快でまろやかな 自然 な 旨 みは 、 飲 み 飽 きすることなく 、 酒通 の 舌 をうならせます。