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2026年3月2日
Aiyama 2026 Single Rice Variety Series: Spring Release
From our Single Rice Variety Series, this spring brings Aiyama — a variety as rare in cultivation as it is generous in the glass. "Ai" meaning Love, "Yama" meaning Mountain — a name that feels entirely fitting for a sake that arrives just as the long-awaited spring begins to stir. Rich and creamy, w…
2025/11/12
ZAKU Sake Nouveau 2025 est arrivé
Each year, as the new harvest comes in, we celebrate the first sake of the season with ZAKU Sake Nouveau — fresh, vibrant, and alive with the energy of young rice: an unguarded expression of the new brewing year, before time and patience have had their say. This year's label, as always, arrives in a…
2025/11/12
Suzukagawa Shiboritate 2025: Sake in the Present Tense
Pressed fresh from this year's newly harvested rice, Suzukagawa Shiboritate captures something immediate and local — the taste of the new season as it arrives in Mie. Lively, unguarded, and brimming with natural vitality, this is sake at its most present tense. ※ Available from mid-November 2025.
2025/09/23
ZAKU × KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS: BEYOND THE STRAND
There are creators who make games, and there are creators who treat everything they touch as an extension of their art. Hideo Kojima — the visionary behind Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding, and founder of the independent studio Kojima Productions — belongs firmly to the latter camp. When he visi…
2024/03/28
“Suzukagawa S Junmai Ginjo” and “Suzukagawa S Junmai Daiginjo” exclusively available at Tokai Aeon.
This spring, for the opening of the Soyora Suzuka Shirako, just in front of Shirako Station in Suzuka, Suzukagawa S Junmai Ginjo and Suzukagawa S Junmai Daiginjo were renewed and are now available only at Aeon affiliated stores in the Tokai area. The label is unique to Suzuka, using traditional Ise…
2024/03/28
The Isekado Brewery has released its second batch of craft beer using Zaku sake lees.
The second edition of Mié's local craft beer made by Isekado Brewery, which uses sake lees from Zaku has been released. The product was named "Sandan-Jikomi Daiginjo Sakekasu IPA Zaku". It uses Ginjo sake yeast and sake rice, performing a three-stage brewing process (sandan-jikomi). The result is…
2023/11/3
Release of Suzukagawa’s New Sake Shiboritate (BY2023)
The Sake Brewing Year 5 of the Reiwa era (BY2023) saw the release of the new sake Suzukagawa Shiboritate. A unique freshness from the Shiboritate (Lit. "just filtered") brewed with this year's new rice. *Shipping will begin around mid-November.
2023/11/2
5th year of the Reiwa era (Brewing year 2023) Release of Zaku’s “new sake” (freshly made sake) .
This year again will be offered the Zaku Junmai Daiginjo SAKE NOUVEAU (2023BY) for the 5th year of the Reiwa era. This new Zaku sake is brewed with freshly harvested rice and expresses young and floral flavours. The design of Zaku's new sake label changes every year. This time, it was inspired by th…