Hakushika

$29.00720ml

The gold is added for celebrations, but any night's fine for a sake dinner pairing.

Try with a soy marinated pork loin,

sea bass steamed with ginger and green onions

or grilled unagi (eel.)

Eyes:

Yellow-Gold

Nose:

Intense, mature, apricot, floral, pear

Mouth:

Medium-Full Bodied, dry, low-medium acidity, intense, long finish, stone fruits, herbaceous, mineral

Hakushika (White Deer) brews this Tokubetsu Junmai-shu sake from super-premium sake rice, Yamada Nishiki, polished to 70%. This 350 year old sake house first gained notoriety in the US at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Their motto: "Sake is not produced, it is raised." In this case, raised with edible gold flakes.