Shirataki Sake Brewery

Jozen White

Shirataki Jozen White Junmai Ginjo sake bottle
OriginNiigata, Japan

From the sake bottle

An excellent choice for a first encounter with sake. Ice cold fermentation process creates a dry and smooth taste with a distinct aroma of green apples and ripe peaches.

Sake Review

Our Tasting Notes

So clean it almost doesn't feel like sake. A mountain spring on the nose, a demure flower on the palate, and a refinement you can actually taste.

ABV
14.5%
Price Point
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Best Served
chilled, room-temperature, warm
Rice
Gohyakumangoku
55%
Grade
Style
ProfileClean & Dry
Flavor NotesSubtle and floral with a clean sweetness that grows quietly as it warms
Aroma NotesA mountain spring: clean, fresh, and completely unassuming

Sweeter
Dryer

Lighter
Fuller
Shirataki Jozen White bottle cap

Three words that describe this sake are...

Clean, refined, pure.

The kind of evening this was made for...

A quiet one. The kind where you've been somewhere all day and you're finally putting your feet up. This sake was made for you, weary traveler.

If this sake were a place it would be...

A quiet trail in the Japanese Alps where the only sound is snowmelt finding its way downhill.

It carries the scent of...

The kind of clean that only comes from fifty years of slow filtration through volcanic granite. A mountain spring, arriving right to your glass.

There's a word for what this feels like and that word is...

Tranquility. The brewery calls it that. One sip and you understand exactly why they chose it.

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