Eighty percent of Tentaka's Sake is sold in Tochigi Prefecture where they are located. It is brewed with water drawn from an underground stream that originates in the Yamizo and Nasu mountain ranges.
Brewery Name: Tentaka Shuzo (founded in 1914).
Brewery Location: Tochigi Prefecture
Toji (Master Brewer): Kouetsu Sugumachi
Tentaka Kuni - Hawk in the Heavens
Quality Grade: Junmai (at least 30% of rice grain polished away)
Seimaibuai: 55% (45% of rice grain polished away) Rice: Gohyakumangoku
Yeast: Tochigi Nihonshu-do: +3
Alcohol: 15.6%
Acidity: 2.1
Tasting Notes: A mature well-rounded flavor with a settled fragrance. Dry but with an underlying richness. Drier and lighter when chilled, and a bit fuller as it warms.
Tentaka Organaka
Quality Grade: Junmai
Seimaibuai: 65% (35% of rice grain polished away)
Rice: Organic Gohyakumangoku
Nihonshu-do: 7
Alcohol: 15.3%
Acidity: 2.2
Tentaka - Silent Stream
Quality Grade: Junmai Daiginjo (at least 50% of rice grain polished away)
Seimaibuai: 35% (65% of rice grain polished away) Rice: Yamada Nishiki
Yeast: #9 Nihonshu-do: +2
Alcohol: 16.8%
Acidity: 1.5
About the Name: The silent stream that lends its name to this sake originates deep in the jagged, snow-covered mountains of Tochigi Prefecture and runs hundreds of miles to the brewery, purifying the clear and untouched water that goes into this sake.
Tasting Notes: Intense and exotic with luscious flavors of soft tropical fruits - guava, passion fruit, melon. The intense, almost herbal aromas of thyme and marjoram resonate in the sinuses. The power of steel cable, the beauty of a Joffrey ballet dancer. Sometimes you just know when you taste perfection.