Nanbu Bijin Tokubetsu Junmai
Nanbu Bijin Tokubetsu Junmai
Nanbu Bijin Tokubetsu Junmai
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Nanbu Bijin Tokubetsu Junmai

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Nanbu Bijin's signature brand, which uses locally grown Ginotome rice. Highly aromatic, with fruit, floral and delicate grain notes (rice pudding, mochi)-- Neat, clean, and crafted to pair with a wide range of food, excellent at any temperature. When it landed on the scene it took the sake world by storm, and remains a stalwart representation of the "modern" style of sake, from which thousands of others have taken inspiration. 

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The brewery was established in 1902, and the Nanbu Bijin brand name came to be in 1951. The Iwate area used to be called Nanbu (South), and is a place rich with nature, abundant water and fertile soil. In Japan, most breweries of the time made quite rough, inelegant, sweet sake, but this brewery wanted to make clean & beautiful sake like a fair southern maiden. Hence, the name Nanbu Bijin, or Southern Beauty.