Dassai 23 Centrifuge Junmai Daiginjo (with giftbox) 2025 (720ml)《ZTJ122》

Mfg.: Apr 2025

Website: https://www.asahishuzo.ne.jp/en/

A sake to brighten your life, not to drive sales or for you to get drunk

Here at Asahi Shuzo, we craft sake to brighten your life, not to drive sales or for you to get drunk.

We strive to create the highest quality sake for our customers to simply enjoy its taste and flavors, it isn't intended to be a product of mass consumption. Dassai is meant to be a way to a pleasant lifestyle. At same time, we do not want Dassai to be a sake so special, so rare nobody could enjoy it: Dassai should be available for anyone to enjoy.

These days, sake producers and liquor stores tend to focus excessively on quick sales strategies and / or overwhelming marketing campaigns which, in turn, make them lose focus of the customer's authentic need: to enjoy a tasty sake.

It is because we craft a high quality sake that we want to share it with everyone around the world. We strive to keep strong partners to introduce Dassai to every one of you.

This ultra-deluxe daiginjo sake has had over three-quarters of the exterior grain polished away to yield a truly remarkable sake. There are very few breweries that have ever attempted to create a sake using rice that has been so highly polished, or even possess the technology to make it possible. In fact, Asahi Shuzo Company makes an even more premium Dassai that has been polished even further than this!

DASSAI 23 Centrifuge

The centrifuge machine first introduced into Japan’s sake industry on a commercial basis by DASSAI has played an important role in terms of technical challenges for Dassai in pursuit of better sake.

Sake extracted by centrifugation has the “quality of sake without any unpleasantness”. It carries a refined gorgeousness and delicacy. On the other hand, when Dassai 23 mash is put into the centrifuge, the transparency of it alone seems too fine. Therefore, in order to give it a wider range of qualities present in alcoholic beverages, it was blended with sake pressed from the Yabuta.

However, with the improvement of brewing techniques of Dassai artisans in recent years, it has become possible to create sake with a range of flavors while maintaining its transparency by controlling the fermentation process meticulously. The representative Dassai 23 Centrifuge now relies on the evolution of this technology and will no longer be blended, but instead use only Dassai 23 extracted via centrifugation resulting in final product that is pure yet has a refined transparency and delicacy at the same time.