Colors Tangerine
⏳ Drinking Window
Best enjoyed within 1 to 3 years of the bottling date to preserve its vibrant acidity and fresh fruit profile.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
fresh sashimi, roasted poultry, soft goat cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Part of Aramasa's celebrated 'Colors' series, 'Tangerine' (known in Japanese as Daidai) is an avant-garde sake designed to showcase the unique terroir of Akita through specific rice varieties. This cuvée is crafted from Yamadanishiki rice cultivated in Akita Prefecture. In line with Aramasa's strict brewing philosophy, it is produced using the ancient Kimoto starter method in traditional wooden casks (Kioke) and fermented solely with Kyokai No. 6 yeast—the historic strain discovered at the brewery in 1930. The result is a sake of remarkable purity, characterized by a vibrant, wine-like acidity, subtle stone fruit notes, and a pristine mineral finish that challenges the boundaries between sake and fine white wine.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1852 by Uhei Sato in Akita Prefecture, Aramasa Shuzo stands as one of Japan's most revolutionary and revered artisanal producers. The brewery earned historic distinction in 1930 when its in-house culture was isolated as Kyokai No. 6, the oldest surviving yeast strain in active distribution. Under eighth-generation kuramoto Yusuke Sato, who took over in the late 2000s, Aramasa embarked on an uncompromising renaissance. Sato committed strictly to pure Junmai brewing, utilizing exclusively local Akita-grown rice cultivated without chemical pesticides, including over 30 hectares farmed in the Uyashinai district. Reviving traditional Edo-period techniques, all fermentations rely purely on indigenous lactic bacteria via the kimoto method and take place entirely in wooden cedar vats (kioke). Fermented using only pristine soft local mountain water and Kyokai No. 6, Aramasa's sakes—such as the iconic unpasteurized No. 6 series, the terroir-driven Colors collection, and the experimental Private Lab bottlings like Amaneko—are globally benchmarked for their electrifying acidity, pristine structural tension, and vinous elegance.
🍇 Grapes
Yamadanishiki (Sake Rice)
🍷 ABV
13%