When it comes to daiginjo, its delicate taste may be the first thing that comes to your mind. However, this sake is brewed from special sake rice called Tajima Goriki, and considered something similar to full-bodied wine in the fruit wine industry.
Despite of the full-bodied taste of this sake, there is still a delicacy and elegance backed by the brewers' passion and careful workmanship unique to sake-making.
The cool black bottle is really suitable to long-time sake lovers.
Everything about this sake, including its appearance, quality and body, is designed to satisfy sake lovers. This is the one for people who know their sake.

Combining a meal and drink by considering types of tastes, richness or lightness, is a classic way to pair food and drink.
This full-bodied sake is a perfect match for rich tasting dishes! Enjoy this sake with a meat dish, rich sauce or stew!

You may think sake has a delicate taste naturally, so it doesn't go with meat dishes? Well, that isn't true! As you can expect from the label, this sake is made to be served with meat dishes.
It is an absolute perfect match!
This sake has a rich and dry taste with good flavor and strong sourness, just like white wine♪ Once you have this with a meat dish, you will be surprised by the fully emphasized meat flavor, then awakened by a sharp-cutting aftertaste.
Then, you start wanting more meat, more sake... Enjoy an endless loop of sake, meat, sake meat, sake and meat...

Good when chilled or warmed. This sake covers a wide range of drinking temperatures.
Squeeze lime in sake on the rocks on a hot summer day.
It looks gorgeous with a slice of lime floating on the surface. A sake cocktail is the best drink to highlight a party.

Once you glance at the label of this sake, you can tell what sort of food suits it.
This sake is made to match seafood, including crabs, prawns and fish.
The taste expresses a complicated depth with a hint of fruity freshness and sweetness.
The perfectly balanced fresh sourness reminds you of high-quality white wine. Originally, sake was used to clean away a fishy odor and emphasize the rich flavor of fish.
This sake is an especially perfect match for the rich taste of crab and prawn. You can fully enjoy its potential with these foods. Your meal will be magically tasty with this sake.

This sake has a fresh sweetness with an alcohol content of 14.5%, which is not very high.
This is very easy to drink and suitable for sake beginners.
The beauty of the lightly yellow-green clear color entertains your eyes when you drink it from a wine glass.

Sake originated in Japan, so it goes well with any type of Japanese food.
Above all others, you must try the delicate touch and elegant aroma of this sake.
The sophisticatedly dry and deep taste comes up to the nose, leaving a fresh aftertaste.
This brilliant sake can be the most enjoyable when you have it with gourmet Japanese cooking.
In addition, the color of this bottle, navy blue, is called ai-iro in Japanese, which is one of the Japanese traditional colors and adopted as the team color of the national soccer team of Japan. Enjoy everything about Japan, including the taste of Japanese dishes, sake and traditional color, with this sake.

Normally, daiginjo is chilled when it is served.
However, the elegance and depth of this sake can bloom at room temperature, too.
Enjoy this sake Japanese style with your friends by using traditional sake tokkuri bottles and sake cups, and pouring sake into each other's cups.

This is a typical Kyoto sake made using Iwai sake rice from Kyoto.
Although this rice has won high praise as a quality sake rice, it stopped being grown because of food shortages due to the war and difficulty in growing the rice.
However, the rice was resurrected in 1990 and used for this typical Kyoto sake whose motto is "Kyoto sake made from Kyoto rice."
The name is written using the Chinese character for capital as written in China during the Heian Period as the sake was brewed using Iwai sake rice around the time of the 1200th anniversary, of the transfer of Japan's capital from Nara to Kyoto.
This gives the sake a historical feel. This sake boasts a top quality fruity and creamy flavor with a spicy, refreshing aftertaste.
The delicate and refined taste is a perfect match for Japanese dishes with subtle tastes, particularly typical Kyoto dishes.
This sake should be slowly savored while experiencing the historic feel of Kyoto.

This delicate sake should not be drunk too cold but at about 10ºC and after letting it breathe to enhance its wonderful taste.
Having gone to this much trouble, you should go all the way on the Kyoto theme and drink the sake using a Kyoto drinking set made of the city's famous ceramics.