Hakutsuru Josen [1800ML]

Description

Hakutsuru Josen is a Japanese sake from the Hakutsuru brewery, in the large 1800ML bottle. Hakutsuru calls it a clean taste and a polished gem, and one of its traditional umashi-zake.

At a Glance

• Brand: Hakutsuru
• Style: Sake, the Josen grade
• Volume: 1800ML, the 1.8 litre bottle
• ABV: 15% or more and under 16%
• Country: Japan
• Ingredients: Rice and rice koji, both from domestic Japanese rice, with brewer’s alcohol
• Sake meter value: plus 1
• Acidity: 1.4
• Amino acid content: 1.1
• Award: Highest Gold Award, best-value hot sake category, National Atsukan Contest

Hakutsuru describes it as smooth yet deep, a sake you do not tire of, and easy to match to a wide range of dishes. A sake meter value of plus 1 with acidity of 1.4 puts it near the middle of the sweet-to-dry scale rather than at either end.

How It Differs

Josen is the middle grade in Hakutsuru’s ladder, above Kasen and below Tokusen. The 1.8 litre glass bottle is the full-size format; the same sake also comes in smaller packs and cups. The rest of the Hakutsuru range is here with our other sake, and our whisky shelf is the other direction.

How to Serve

Hakutsuru marks both chilled and warm as recommended, with room temperature fine too, and suggests warming it from autumn through winter. Decant into a tokkuri rather than warming the whole bottle.

Ideal for: A family dinner, a hotpot night, a long table with mixed tastes.

Pairs with: Steamed fish, yong tau foo, claypot chicken rice and lighter Chinese-Malaysian braises.

Questions

What size is this bottle?
1800ML, which is 1.8 litres, the full-size glass bottle.

Is Hakutsuru Josen dry or sweet?
Near the middle. Its sake meter value is plus 1 and its acidity 1.4, which puts it between sweet and dry rather than at either end. The separate karakuchi, or dry, version of Josen is a 2 litre paper pack and a different product from this bottle.

Should it be served warm or cold?
Either. Hakutsuru marks both chilled and warm as recommended and suggests warming it from autumn through winter.

Order before 2 PM for same-day delivery to Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya, Shah Alam, Subang Jaya, Klang and seven more nearby areas, Monday to Saturday except public holidays.

Alcohol is sold strictly to non-Muslim customers aged 21 and above, for delivery within West Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia) only.