Ingredients : Rice、Koji
Rice Type: 100% Gohyakumangoku
Polishing Rate: 80%
Alcohol: 15.5% vol
Production Date: May 2025
Website: https://www.e-sakenom.com/
🌟One of the sake kings in Yamagata - Eiko Fuji (Glorious Mt. Fuji)
🌟Summer Seasonal Sake - Issen Fujin
🌟Premium Sake Rice - Gohyakumangoku
🌟Dry in nature and suitable for warm drinking
Eiko Fuji Brewery
Founded in 1778, the Fuji Brewery is nowmanaged by the 13th generation of the Kato family, Ariyoshi Kato. Located inTsuruoka City, a sake-brewing hub in Yamagata prefecture, Eiko Fuji embodiesthe style of Yamagata—light, clean, and delightfully fruity.
Eiko Fuji means “Glorious Mount Fuji.” Thename is a tribute to Japan’s national symbol and the brewery’s aspiration inmaking sake.
Ariyoshi Kato is the 13th generationPresident of the Fuji Brewing Company. After graduating from college, hestarted a career in finance in Tokyo. The brewery was on solid footing underhis father’s leadership. However, Kato-san saw the potential for somethingnew—a revival of something already great. He returned home to Yamagata andjoined the brewery, becoming President under his father’s leadership asChairman. As he took the reins, he began to innovate and change. He attractednew talent and embraced new ideas. Under his leadership, Eiko Fuji has grown insize and renovated almost every area of the brewery. Despite their success,Kato-san works in the brewery, side-by-side with his brewing team, making sake.He leads as a team, with his two trusted, key managers, Shigeyuki Yoneyama, hismarketing director and Kodai Kato (no family relation), his brewmaster.
Yamagata is synonymous with “ginjo sake.”The prefecture claims to make more ginjo and daiginjo as a percentage of itstotal sake production than any other prefecture. Yamagata also reflects theTohoku style—fruity but well-balanced. The influence of Niigata to the south,outside of Tohoku, can be felt in the clean and clear style of Yamagata sake.Yamagata sake is an amazing crossroads.
Yamagata is known for its production ofDewa San San (san san meaning 33) sake rice and, more recently, Dewa No Sato.Both of these varietals can only be grown in Yamagata. Many breweries use asquare blue and white sticker with “Dewa 33” on the bottle to indicate its ricevarietal.
Yamagata has also developed its own yeaststrain, called “Yamagata KA,” or “Yamagata Kobo.” Yamagata Kobo is a relativeof Yeast #9, which came from Kumamoto. Sake makers in Yamagata also frequentlyuse Yeast #10. You can see this in Eiko Fuji Namazake Junmai Ginjo, a fantasticrepresentation of this yeast and Yamada Nishiki rice. Getting super-technical,these yeast strains fall into a family of yeast that is known to produce mediumaroma and notes of green apple instead of flowery or tropical fruit aromas andflavors like ginjo yeasts of higher numbers.
Yamagata was one of the first prefecturesin Japan to obtain a Geographical Indentification, or GI, like wine. There areroughly 50 breweries in Yamagata.
Eiko Fuji is located in Tsuruoka City onthe Shonai Plain in Yamagata. Shonai is a celebrated rice-growing area. Theflat lands are covered with snow during the winter and enriched with sunlightand rain in the summer.
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