Terada Honke Patagonia Provisions Collaboration Gonin Musume Junmai - 720 ml 1%

This centuries-old sake brewery was the first to make natural and organic sake in the modern era. Serve this earthy, complex example cold, and enjoy its floral, miso soup-like aromas and savory, mushroom-y flavors. It will even please wine lovers who aren’t sake fans.

Established in 1670, Terada Honke made a decision about 30 years ago to part ways with the industrial brewing methods of postwar Japan and take sake back to its roots. 24th-generation kuramoto Terada Masaru is following in his predecessor’s footsteps, leading a brewery where the whole incredibly labor-intensive process is done by hand. The rice used is all organic, and most of it is polished far less than the average in the industry. Fermentation relies on brewery propagated kōji (a rarity) and either kimoto or bodaimoto fermentation methods, which when combined with the little-polished rice, results in tastes that are bold, full-bodied, and expressive with a signature high presence of lactic acid.