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Hideyoshi, Lachamte Sparkling Sake

Name: Hideyoshi, Lachamte Sparkling Sake
Brand: Hideyoshi
SKU: 4993448207031
Price: 14.0 GBP
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Producer Hideyoshi

Country Japan

Region Akita Prefecture

ABV 8%

Tasting Notes

Grapefruit, Lemon, Pear and Rice Candy

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Japan Sake

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Szechuan Food

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More About Hideyoshi, Lachamte Sparkling Sake

A lightly sparkling sake from Suzuki Brewery in Akita, made entirely from Akita Komachi rice and spring water from the Ou Mountains. It's a deliberately approachable style, with the rice polished to 65% and the alcohol sitting at around 8%. The brewery describes it as having a gentle sweetness, fruity aromas and refreshing carbonation, with the natural sweetness coming from fermentation rather than added fruit or sugar.

Meet the Producer, Hideyoshi

Hideyoshi

Style: Sake Brewery

Suzuki Shuzouten is a historic sake brewery in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, with roots stretching back to 1689, when founder Suzuki Matsuemon began brewing sake. The brewery's story is closely tied to the development of Akita as a sake-producing region, and it has remained a family business for more than 330 years. The brewery's sake was originally sold under the name Hatsu Arashi, but during the Horeki era in the eighteenth century, the Akita domain held a competition to select its finest sake. Suzuki's brew was praised as being superior to the domain's previous official sake, Kiyomasa, and was subsequently given the name Hideyoshi. In 1848, the brewery became the official sake supplier to the Akita domain, cementing its importance in the region.

The brewery's location in the Senboku Plain is central to its character. This is one of Akita's great agricultural areas, surrounded by the mountains of northern Japan and particularly well suited to rice cultivation. Suzuki uses Akita-grown sake rice together with soft underground water originating in the Ou Mountains, allowing the brewery to make sake with a strong sense of regional identity. The long, cold winters are another advantage. Brewing takes place in naturally cold conditions, with the sake fermenting slowly in the brewery's cool environment. The combination of good rice, soft mountain water and a cold climate provides the basic ingredients for the rounded, savoury style associated with Hideyoshi.

Despite its age, Suzuki Shuzouten has never treated tradition as something completely fixed. The brewery has retained many of the practices and tools associated with traditional sake making, while also developing more modern approaches to quality and fermentation. Its historic brewery buildings date from the early Meiji period and still contain enormous traditional rice-steaming equipment and a lacquered wooden sakabune, the traditional press used to separate the fermented mash from the finished sake. The brewery has also preserved brewing records dating back to the Genroku era, including an early brewing manual and records describing techniques such as pasteurisation. In 2020, the historic brewery was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property.

The house style of Hideyoshi leans towards the umakuchi side of sake: generous, savoury and full of rice-derived flavour rather than simply chasing extreme dryness or pronounced fruitiness. The brewery produces everything from approachable everyday sake through to Junmai Daiginjo and aged sake. Its premium Junmai Daiginjo combines Yamada Nishiki and Akita Sake Komachi, while the brewery's Daiginjo is made from contract-grown Yamada Nishiki and Akita Sake Komachi polished to 40%, with long, low-temperature fermentation used to develop its aromatic character and silky texture. It also has a particularly long history with aged sake, having experimented with maturing Ginjo sake well before aged sake became fashionable in Japan. Its five-year-old Daiginjo Hizoshu is a good example, developing deeper, mellow flavours through extended maturation.

There is also a strong connection between Hideyoshi and the food culture of Akita. The brewery describes its purpose not simply as making sake, but as protecting and contributing to the region's food culture and local community. That makes sense when you taste the style: these are sakes designed to work alongside food, with umami, acidity and gentle sweetness providing plenty of structure at the table. Alongside its traditional range, Suzuki has also embraced newer ideas, including La Chamte, a sparkling sake made from just Akita Komachi rice and natural water. After more than three centuries, the brewery continues to balance the accumulated knowledge of generations with new techniques and younger people coming into the business, making Hideyoshi a particularly good example of Akita's traditional sake culture continuing to evolve rather than simply being preserved.