Zenkuro Junmai 'Aoraki' Daiginjo Sake 750ml

Zenkuro Junmai 'Aoraki' Daiginjo Sake 750ml

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Light bodied with perfectly balanced umami, silky texture, smooth flavour and subtle fruit aromas, Zenkuro Junmai Daiginjo is best served cold, and enjoyed together with your favourite food, family and friends. Complete satisfaction is assured! “Expressive aromas of ripe peaches, nashi pear, kumquat and green melon. Strawberry, white nectarine and fennel notes evident with a background of perfumed white lillies. Juicy kiwifruit and pear sweep smoothly over the palate, barely disguising a backbone of minerality with a crisp, clean finish. Balance, light texture and a restrained elegance are the key elements. Drink super cold to experience the acidic edge. Drink with your favourite food from the sea, just barely seared or raw such as sashimi, ceviche or sushi. Will suit most shellfish and is perfect for the sweetness of scampi, pearl meat or abalone. This sake suits the spectrum of light meats like fish, chicken, veal or thinly sliced pork. It would sit beautifully with garden vegetables, caesar salad, salad nicoise and a green pea risotto. With cheese – a pairing with camembert, brie, mozzarella or stracciatella is recommended.” – Melissa Mills of Sake Connect, Melbourne

Technical Notes: Made from Yamada Nishiki (Koji-mai) and Gohyakumangoku (Kake-mai) rice. Rice polishing ratio: 50%. Junmai Daiginjo Classification, Muroka – no charcoal filtering, Namazume – one pasteurisation only before bottling and storage.

Alcohol: 15.0%

Variety: Sake Junmai Daiginjo

Region: Queenstown, Central Otago, New Zealand

--------THE PRODUCER--------

Zenkuro Sake Brewery

New Zealand’s first and only sake brewery, Zenkuro Sake is based in Queenstown. We produce premium grade junmai ginjo and junmai sake using highly polished, certified sake rice from Japan, and soft water sourced from the Southern Alps. The purity of our ingredients allow us to hand-craft a unique style of sake with well balanced flavours, gentle umami and delicate aromas. Zenkuro Sake is best enjoyed together with friends, family and your favourite food.  With no preservatives, clarifiers or additives of any sort, Zenkuro Sake can be enjoyed as a healthy accompaniment to any meal. Zenkuro is available throughout New Zealand, in London, in Japan, in Australia and now Hong Kong.

Our brand name is Zenkuro. While the character 全 (zen) means ‘all’ or ‘completely’, 黒 (kuro) means ‘black’ – a mix that brings an image of balanced strength, passion, pride and determination to succeed, that is uniquely Kiwi!

Head Brewer David Joll is a “Certified Advanced Sake Professional” and has worked and studied alongside some of Japan’s best brewers. Our small brewing team works together with passion and pride, determined to craft sake that all of NZ can be proud to call its own.

日本の伝統的な製法に基づいて、酒米とサザンアルプスから流れ出るクイーンズタウンの純粋な水によって作られた純米酒です。精米歩合６０％の酒米を使い、食事に合うことを一番の目的として作られた、添加物なしで、体に優しいニュージーランド純米酒を是非お試しください。日本食はもとより、ニュージーランドのシーフード、肉料理など幅広い料理に合わせられる口当たりの良いお酒です。

ニュージーランドの〝最強″のイメージをもとに誕生し命名された〝全″(Completely)、〝黒″(Black)。ニュージーランド初、クイーンズタウンの地酒を、地元のお食事とともに冷やしてお楽しみください。