Iwa 5 Junmai Daiginjo Sake Assemblage 2 (720ml) CS20230516 and red cherry alongside floral

and red cherry alongside floral aromas of lavender and black pepper

this sun-kissed Southern Rhône delivers plum

The Hautes Cotes de Beaune is the back country: higher

barely sweetened taste

with lovely palate presence

Iwa 5 Junmai Daiginjo Sake Assemblage 2 (720ml) CS20230516 and red cherry alongside floralCreated by Richard Geoffroythe man who spent nearly three decades as chef de cave at Dom PrignonIWA 5 brings Champagne's philosophy of assemblage to Japanese sake. Assemblage 2 blends three rice varieties (Yamada Nishiki, Omachi, and Gohyakumangoku) with five different yeasts, including two wine yeasts, to create a sake of unusual width and complexity. Polished to 35%, qualifying as junmai daiginjo. Geoffroy describes Assemblage 2 as sake that drinks