{"title":"Sho Chiku Bai Sake","description":"\u003cp\u003eSho Chiku Bai, pine, bamboo and plum, the three symbols of good fortune in Japan, is the flagship brand of Takara Shuzo, founded in Kyoto in 1842, and of its American branch, Takara Sake USA, which in 1983 became the first Japanese sake company to brew in the United States. The Berkeley, California, brewery works from Sacramento Valley Calrose rice and Sierra Nevada snowmelt water, follows traditional methods, and bottles everything kosher certified, gluten free and sulfite free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe line runs from the green-bottle Classic Junmai that anchors sake lists across America, through the sweet, creamy Nigori Silky Mild and the ginjo-grade Premium Nigori Semi-Sweet, to two modern Berkeley bottles named for the neighborhood: Ocean View, brewed with white koji for a tangy, citric edge, and Skyline, blended with barrel-aged sake for a rosé-like red-fruit character. Mio, the best-selling sparkling sake in the world, is the one Japanese-brewed bottle in the range, made at Takara's Shirakabegura brewery in Nada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse our full Sho Chiku Bai collection with fast nationwide shipping delivered straight to your door.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sho-chiku-bai-classic-junmai-sake","title":"Sho Chiku Bai Classic Junmai Sake","description":"\u003cp\u003eSho Chiku Bai, pine, bamboo and plum, the three symbols of good fortune, is the flagship of Takara Sake USA in Berkeley, California, the first Japanese sake company to brew in America, since 1983, as the branch of Kyoto's Takara Shuzo, founded in 1842, working from Sacramento Valley Calrose rice and Sierra Nevada snowmelt, kosher, gluten free and sulfite free. Classic Junmai is the green-bottle house sake found in restaurants across America, brewed with no added distilled alcohol from Calrose rice polished to 70 percent and finished at a sake meter value of +3, round with savory complexity. The brewery maps how it changes with temperature: chilled it shows macadamia, chai spice, vanilla, cream and fresh bread; at room temperature minerality, crème fraîche, sourdough, custard, umami and apple; warmed to about 100°F it fills out with salted custard, cocoa nib, banana bread and toasted nuts. It comes in a 750ml bottle. Pair it with egg dishes, noodles, rice, sushi and shrimp tempura, or with firm cheeses like Gruyère and Manchego and young creamy ones like Brillat-Savarin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuy Sho Chiku Bai Classic Junmai Sake online with fast shipping right to your door.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sho Chiku Bai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577440309504,"sku":"C0010445L","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0057\/8089\/7892\/files\/sho-chiku-bai-classic-junmai-sake_1_285e2cfe-b95d-47d2-abff-3239c4661da1.jpg?v=1791693940"},{"product_id":"sho-chiku-bai-nigori-silky-mild-sake","title":"Sho Chiku Bai Nigori Silky Mild Sake","description":"\u003cp\u003eSho Chiku Bai, pine, bamboo and plum, the three symbols of good fortune, is the flagship of Takara Sake USA in Berkeley, California, the first Japanese sake company to brew in America, since 1983, as the branch of Kyoto's Takara Shuzo, founded in 1842, working from Sacramento Valley Calrose rice and Sierra Nevada snowmelt, kosher, gluten free and sulfite free. Nigori Silky Mild is the cloudy one, coarsely filtered so fine rice particles stay in the bottle, brewed with no added distilled alcohol from Calrose rice polished to 70 percent and bottled at 15% ABV with a sake meter value of -20, which makes it sweet, bold and textured. The brewery describes fruity aromas and flavors of ripe banana, vanilla, melon and strawberry over a creamy, sweet rice-custard note, and calls it a lightly sweet after-dinner pour as much as a dinner sake. It comes in a 750ml bottle; turn it gently before serving. Serve it chilled with unagi, grilled chicken or pork in a sweet-tangy barbecue sauce, or spicy Thai, Chinese and Indian dishes, where the sweetness cools the heat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuy Sho Chiku Bai Nigori Silky Mild Sake online with fast shipping right to your door.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sho Chiku Bai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577440342272,"sku":"C0010446L","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0057\/8089\/7892\/files\/sho-chiku-bai-nigori-silky-mild-sake_1_226d5d73-bfdf-40d3-8dc6-f59c5fa86b21.jpg?v=1791693939"},{"product_id":"sho-chiku-bai-ocean-view-junmai-sake","title":"Sho Chiku Bai Ocean View Junmai Sake","description":"\u003cp\u003eSho Chiku Bai, pine, bamboo and plum, the three symbols of good fortune, is the flagship of Takara Sake USA in Berkeley, California, the first Japanese sake company to brew in America, since 1983, as the branch of Kyoto's Takara Shuzo, founded in 1842, working from Sacramento Valley Calrose rice and Sierra Nevada snowmelt, kosher, gluten free and sulfite free. Ocean View is a modern junmai named for the old name of Takara's Berkeley neighborhood overlooking San Francisco Bay, and the surfer on the label tells you the intent: it is brewed with white koji, the mold used for shochu, which raises citric acid and gives the sake a bolder, tangier, more refreshing edge than a classic junmai. It is brewed with no added distilled alcohol from Calrose rice polished to 70 percent and bottled at 14% ABV in a 750ml bottle. The brewery describes a nose that opens on tart apple and pear and turns savory as it warms, with sweet white miso, oats, custard and brie, a crisp palate of green apple, lemon peel, wet stone and cream of wheat, and toast and white truffle left in the empty glass. Serve it chilled to about 50°F, or warm, with seafood: raw oysters, scallops, grilled lobster tail or steamed mussels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuy Sho Chiku Bai Ocean View Junmai Sake online with fast shipping right to your door.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sho Chiku Bai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577440375040,"sku":"C0010447L","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0057\/8089\/7892\/files\/sho-chiku-bai-ocean-view-junmai-sake_1_11337dce-f7fa-4ae9-ac7a-b8c86ef963a6.jpg?v=1791693940"},{"product_id":"sho-chiku-bai-shirakabegura-mio-sparkling-sake","title":"Sho Chiku Bai Shirakabegura Mio Sparkling Sake","description":"\u003cp\u003eMio is the best-selling sparkling sake in the world, and unlike the rest of the Sho Chiku Bai line it is brewed in Japan, at Takara Shuzo's Shirakabegura brewery in Nada, the historic sake district of Hyogo Prefecture outside Kobe; Takara, founded in Kyoto in 1842, launched Mio in 2011 to bring new drinkers to sake and it became a phenomenon. It is made from Japanese rice and koji rice with no flavoring or added sweeteners, the sweetness and fizz coming from the brewing itself, and it is bottled at a gentle 5% ABV in a 750ml cobalt-blue bottle. The brewery describes aromas of peach, ripe persimmon, freesia and fresh bread, flavors of pear and peach with yellow rose and baking spice, and a gentle effervescence that reads sparkling, lively, sweet and fruity. Serve it very cold, between 32 and 41°F, in a chilled flute as a toast or aperitif, with light dishes, poured over fresh fruit for dessert, or as a base for cocktails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuy Sho Chiku Bai Shirakabegura Mio Sparkling Sake online with fast shipping right to your door.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sho Chiku Bai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577440571648,"sku":"C0010448L","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0057\/8089\/7892\/files\/sho-chiku-bai-shirakabegura-mio-sparkling-sake_1_f2b3af07-efd2-476c-beb9-6f8b1e21efaa.jpg?v=1791693940"},{"product_id":"sho-chiku-bai-premium-ginjo-nigori-sake-semi-sweet","title":"Sho Chiku Bai Premium Ginjo Nigori Sake Semi-Sweet","description":"\u003cp\u003eSho Chiku Bai, pine, bamboo and plum, the three symbols of good fortune, is the flagship of Takara Sake USA in Berkeley, California, the first Japanese sake company to brew in America, since 1983, as the branch of Kyoto's Takara Shuzo, founded in 1842, working from Sacramento Valley Calrose rice and Sierra Nevada snowmelt, kosher, gluten free and sulfite free. Premium Ginjo Nigori Semi-Sweet is the step up from the house Nigori Silky Mild: a cloudy, coarsely filtered junmai ginjo, which means the rice is polished further than an ordinary junmai and the sake is fermented slower and colder to draw out aroma, with no added distilled alcohol, and it is finished semi-sweet rather than fully sweet so the rice cream carries more lift and less syrup. The result keeps the creamy texture and the ripe fruit and rice-pudding character of nigori with a cleaner, more aromatic edge and a drier finish, and it comes in a 750ml bottle with the blue-and-white Nigori Premium label. Turn the bottle gently before pouring and serve it well chilled with spicy Thai, Korean or Sichuan food, fried chicken, teriyaki or a fruit dessert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuy Sho Chiku Bai Premium Ginjo Nigori Sake online with fast shipping right to your door.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sho Chiku Bai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577440604416,"sku":"C0010449L","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0057\/8089\/7892\/files\/sho-chiku-bai-premium-ginjo-nigori-sake_1_550a76da-eaf5-4104-a885-834102e91301.jpg?v=1791693941"},{"product_id":"sho-chiku-bai-skyline-junmai-sake","title":"Sho Chiku Bai Skyline Junmai Sake","description":"\u003cp\u003eSho Chiku Bai, pine, bamboo and plum, the three symbols of good fortune, is the flagship of Takara Sake USA in Berkeley, California, the first Japanese sake company to brew in America, since 1983, as the branch of Kyoto's Takara Shuzo, founded in 1842, working from Sacramento Valley Calrose rice and Sierra Nevada snowmelt, kosher, gluten free and sulfite free. Skyline is the most experimental bottle in the line, named for the trail above Takara's Berkeley brewery and labeled with a skateboarding cow, and it breaks from tradition by blending barrel-aged sake into the junmai, which adds acidity and a whisper of tannin the brewery compares to a rosé from Provence. It is brewed with no added distilled alcohol from Calrose rice polished to 80 percent and bottled at 16% ABV in a 750ml bottle. The brewery describes banana bread, cream cheese and daffodil on the nose, a palate of tart red cherry, orange pith, crème fraîche, plantain chips and a hint of vanilla, and a long, salty finish, a lovely, red-fruited sake built for the dinner table. 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