Juyondai

Honmaru Tokubetsu Honjozo 1800mL

Juyondai represents the pinnacle of Japanese Sake, permanently ranked No.1. Honmaru carries the 400 year old royal brewing method, making it one of the most complex Juyondai, a must try rare Sake!
Honmaru is one of its entry level offerings, a very robust introduction to high end Japan Sake.
本丸 or Honmaru means the 'original one'. Most other Juyondais are junmai Ginjo or Daiginjo, Honmaru is Honjozo 本酿造, it is not junmai 纯米. If you look at its ingredients, on top of rice ,water, yeast, there are added alcohol too. These are not random alcohol however. The technic used is called 【秘伝玉返】, apparently this technic was used in the royal palace in Kyoto and eventuallybecame known to civilians.These alcohol are extracted fromSake lees( さけかす )of the brewery. The lees has robust aromas and taste, theTokubetsu is alsoleft as 生詰, so some yeast and microorganism maybe still alive after bottling. The rice polishing rates are at 55%, leaving quite a lot of proteins and fats of the middle layers in the rice. All of these give rise to the complexity of the Juyondai Honmaru Tokubetsu.