Basic Information


Brand:          Hakuryu [haku-ryu]

Type:            Ume-shu (Plum-flavored sake), Junmai

Alcohol:          12-13% by volume

Bottle size:    500ml            Case pack:    12 bottles

UPC code:      844650005035

 

Producer

 

Name:                   Hakuryu [haku-ryu] Shuzo

Founded by:  Shirai Family in 1839

Location:      3-7 Okayama-cho, Agano-shi, Niigata 959-2025, JAPAN

Web site:      www.niigatasake.com

                   www.hakuryu-sake.com

 

Toji (Master Brewer):  Yuzuru Yamakawa & Shinji Shirai

                   Yamakawa-san has been making sake

 for more than a half century.                 

 

Ingredients & technical data

 

Sake:              Junmai sake made with rice polished to 70%

Plum:            “Koshino Ume” premium plum grown in Niigata.

Sugar:                        Fructose

Water:            Underground water from Agano-fukuryuusui

No sulfites, no preservatives.

 

SMV:               - 62   Acidity:   13.1          Amino acids: 2.0

 

Other information

 

Serving temp. : Chilled.

Tasting note:              Mellow sweet flavor, well balance with mild acidity. Clean finish.

Food paring: For aperitif or dessert.

 

   This premium ume-shu (plum sake) is made by soaking specially grown “Koshino Ume” plum in junmai sake for four months and adding fructose.