Koshu sake is sake aged in bottles, tanks, barrels, or amphorae and must are aged for at least one year. Nowadays is two year more the standard. Characteristic are the more ripe notes of honey, toast, dried fruit, nuts, caramel and the colour from gold to even amber. Many matured sake are sweet in taste, with the sugars ensuring that the sake has a good shelf life.
Despite that Koshu sake is almost always called that when it is at least a year
old and also has an aged character with ripe notes, although there is also a
group where the sake has been aged in tanks or bottles at extremely low
temperatures. In this way, different layers of flavour are developed, as it
were, increasing complexity while preserving the fruit notes. Often these are
Junmai Daiginjo and Daiginjo from top houses, with Born from Fukui being the
best known.
Koshu
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