Dewazakura Dewasansan Junmai Ginjo

Dewazakura Dewasansan Junmai Ginjo pairs a Yamagata brewery with a Yamagata rice: it is brewed by Dewazakura Sake Brewery from Dewa Sansan, the prefecture's flagship sake-rice variety, milled to 50%. An acidity of 1.25 and an amino-acid level of 1.05 support a clean, balanced ginjo, with a Sake Meter Value of +3 at 15.5% alcohol giving a dry finish. Dewazakura is widely credited with popularizing accessible, aromatic ginjo, and this bottling showcases the local rice for which it is named.

This DEWA33 designation sake uses Yamagata's signature Dewa Sansan rice polished to the appellation's required 55% or less. Clean, balanced, with gentle fruit aromatics and a dry, refreshing finish — it embodies the quality standards that made Yamagata Japan's first prefecture-wide sake appellation. A proud expression of regional identity.