Tasting Niigata sake @ Omotesando N’Espace

Niigata is known as the home of Japanese sake. It has more than 90 different breweries! You can taste Niigata sake in Omotesando by ¥500 at the N’Espace standing bar space. N’Espace is a “beacon” store transmitting the latest information about Niigata by selling food from Niigata, event, tourist information and U-Turn employment information from Omotesando.

The shop offers you selected Niigata sake, Niigata appetizers, craft beer and so on. Sake menu will change on a monthly basis. Always 8 kinds of Sake is waiting for you.

Tanrei Karakuchi

Niigata is famous for a specific type of sake, “Tanrei Karakuchi” or very refined, light and dry.

Water is the key ingredient in making sake. The snow and rain that falls on the tall mountains of Niigata soaks into the earth, forming springs and streams and eventually flowing into the rice fields. This water not only makes the sake delicious, but also enhances the flavor of the rice, the other main ingredient in sake making.

Climate is also an important factor. The winter climate in Niigata is favorable, with the low temperatures that allow sake to ferment and develop.

Water, rice, climate, and exquisite brewing techniques come together to make Niigata sake premium in quality.

LOCATION

N’Espace

4 Chome-11-7 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0001

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Access

Tokyo Metro (Ginza Line, Chiyoda Line, Hanzomon Line) “Omotesando Station” 1 minute on foot from A2 Exit

Opening hours

11: 00-19: 00 (excluding event dates)

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The 2nd Uonuma Jizake Night in Shibuya

Uonuma is home to a cuisine that takes full advantage of the blessings of nature.

Uonuma is a city located in Niigata Prefecture. Uonuma is place where you can enjoy the changing of the seasons. A culture that has emerged from the many blessing of the surrounding nature has produced an intriguing cuisine with some famous brands known throughout the country, such as Uonuma koshihikari rice and other unique ingredients.

Koshihikari rice from Uonuma is Japan’s most delicious, and is said to be rice so tasty that it needs no accompaniment. This is only the start. Unique local sakes, soba, mountains vegetables, etc…. Snow Country has lots of places famous for the unusual dish of horumon-yaki (grilled offal), and Uonuma has some great examples that you should sample. This is also the home of several nationally famous brands.

The local sake (Jizake) made from the delicious water and rice of Uonuma has a well-rounded flavor that is like taking a taste of nature.

You can enjoy taste of Uonuma koshihikari with Uonuma sake.

Participating breweries

Midorikawa Shuzo
緑川 純米吟醸 Midorikawa Junmai 720ml

Clean, smooth, and gracious: this is the essence of the classic Niigata tanrei-karakuchi “light and dry” style. Subtle nose of melon and ginger, creamy soft texture and prolonged but dry finish.

Tamagawa Sake Brewery
玉川酒造 イットキー It’s the key 1800ml

Very, very sweet, super high acidity, low 12% alcohol and definitely trying to be more wine-like. The name is “its the key” (イットキー). The label explains that “It’s the key that finally unlocks the world of sake for all.” Drink less than 5 degrees of chilledーsake or warmed to 50 degrees of Hot sake.

AOKISHUZO The Sake Brewery Co., LTD.

青木酒造 鶴齢 純米酒 KAKUREI Junmaishu 1800ml

Koshi-Tanrei and Gohyakumangoku rice polished to 70%. Very gentle taste, good for chilled, room temparature, and hot served.

Matsunoi Sake Brewery

【蔵元直送】松乃井 特別純米 Matsunoi Tokubetsu Junmai 720ml

Sweet aromas of vanilla and cream custard. Round palate entry, very soft and plush in the mouth with a hint of warmth. Builds in breadth and retains most of its freshness as it loses its chill, and when it hits room temperature it loses its inhibitions about showing off its luxurious, silky texture.

Koshimeijo Co.,Ltd.

越の鶴 大吟醸 Koshi no Tsuru Daiginjo 720ml

This is Koshimeijo’s flagship sake. It is characterized by fruity and gorgeous fragrance.

 

DATE AND TIME

2018/8/28 (Tue)

19:30 – 21:30 (Door open at 19:00)

– You cannot go? Check out ichibansake Event Calendar

LOCATION

TOKYO CULTURE CULTURE cocoti 4F

1-23-16 Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0002

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Access

Tokyo Metro “Shibuya Station” Exit 13 Front
JR · Tokyu Line · Keio Line · “Shibuya station” 4 minutes on foot to Meiji-dori toward Harajuku direction

Ticket
Tasting sake and food included in the ticket
¥3,000

Advance ticket Link
e-plus

Day ticket
¥3,500

Web site

For more information visit, 第2回魚沼地酒ナイトin渋谷

“Tosatsuru” & “Koshi no Homare” In-store tasting event @ Ikebukuro

You can taste Tosatsuru, TOSATSURU SAKE BREWING CO.,LTD. from Kochi prefecture, and Koshi no Homare, Hara Shuzo from Niigata prefecture.

Tosatsuru (TOSATSURU SAKE BREWING CO.,LTD.)

TOSATSURU SAKE BREWING is located near the Muroto Cape, the largest brewery in Kochi prefecture. A clear stream Yasuda Riversmall runs by near the brewery, the well water which is in the site of the brewery is hard and contains well-balanced mineral. In the Annual Japan Sake Awards, they have won total 45 times since 1965 and the highest number of Gold in Japan.

土佐鶴酒造 大吟醸原酒 天平 Daiginjo-genshu “Tenpyo” 900ml [高知県/辛口]

The highest point of the sake master’s art. Enjoy the full aroma & rich taste of Daiginjo to your hearts content. The sake is made with utmost care under the close attention of their sake master (Toji), and the rice grains are polished down to less than 40% of their original size, all to create this delightfully refined & involving sake.

土佐鶴酒造 吟醸酒 アジュール Tosatsuru Ginjo Azure 720ml [高知県/中辛口]

Tosatsuru Ginjo Azure is a new generation smooth sake made from “Kaiyoushinsousui” (Deep ocean water).

This water contains less chemicals and germs than ocean surface water (because there is no sun light down there, bacteria cannot survive) resulting in a pure, clean-tasting sake with exceptional freshness.

Tosatsuru Azure has a fruity Ginjo fragrance of ripe pears, a refreshing and clean palate, and a lengthy dry finish with a fair amount of acidity.

TOSATSURU SAKE BREWING CO.,LTD. Home page

 

Koshi no Homare (Hara Shuzo)

At the time Hara Shuzo brewery was founded in the late Edo period (1814), Kashiwazaki was flourishing as a Shukuba (station town) on the Hokkoku Kaido expressway and also as a maritime town by the Sengoku ships. Because of this, the elegance and refinement of the city’s culture was infused into this place and the unique culture bloomed. With the nature’s blessings and the rich culture of the area, the taste of our sake has been inevitably refined. Kashiwazaki’s nature, humanity, and culture are all brewed in the barrels of sake produced here. In the 200 yeas since the city’s creation, they have slowly been improving the flavor of our sake, and they have never stopped brewing this sake that people have loved for a long time.

The event that we can’t forget when introducing Hara Shuzo is the Chuetsu Offshore Earthquake that occurred on July 16, 2007. As a result of the earthquake, major damage occurred leaving over 70% of the company’s buildings collapsed. Five cellars were completely destroyed—the walls fell off, the pillars broke, the tiled roof caved in, and around 200 of the 300 sake tanks were buried under the roof. The very next day, the removal of 10,000 bottles of sake started, and the liquor storage tank was rescued from the debris. In the middle of August, the bottling line was started up again, in September the first bottles of sake were ready, and in October they were shipped out. The outcome of the earthquake was not pretty, but everything was able to return back to normal two and a half months later.

原酒造 越の誉 純米大吟醸 秘造酒 もろはく Koshi no Homare Junmai daiginjo Morohaku 720ml [新潟県]

In 1972, when Japan was normalizing its diplomatic relations with China, their sake “Koshi no Homare: Morohaku” whose quality was spoken highly of by the then Prime Minister, Kakuei Tanaka, was chosen as a toast of the memorial dinner party in Beijing. Koshi no Homare served as a representative of the national liquor of Japan.

 

Hara Shuzo Home page

DATE AND TIME

2018/8/2 (Thu) – 8/8(Wed) 10:00~20:00

You cannot go? Check out ichibansake Event Calendar

LOCATION

Ikebukuro Tobu Department Store B1F

1 Chome-1-25 Nishiikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo 171-0021

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Access

Directly connected to “Ikebukuro station”

Web site

For more information visit, 東武百貨店 池袋店 日本酒催事スケジュール