Asahi Shuzo (Niigata)
朝日酒造
Asahi Shuzo (Niigata)
Präfektur
Niigata
Chubu (中部)
Gegründet
1830
Toji-Schule
Echigo Toji
Wasserquelle
Draws from deep underground wells fed by snowmelt from the Echigo Mountains in Niigata. Niigata's characteristically soft water produces the clean, light, and delicate sake style for which the region.
Über
Asahi Shuzo in Nagaoka, Niigata is the creator of Kubota, one of Japan's most iconic sake brands. The brewery pioneered the tanrei karakuchi (light and dry) style that defined Niigata sake in the 1980s. Using pristine snowmelt water from the Asahi mountain range and Gohyakumangoku rice, Kubota set the standard for clean, refined sake.