Dassai Blue Dassai 50 Nama Junmai Daiginjo

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Dassai Blue is Asahi Shuzo's US sake brewery and tasting room in Hyde Park, New York, opened in the Hudson Valley to brew Junmai Daiginjo exclusively from Yamada Nishiki, the "king of sake rice." Rather than replicating the Dassai made in Yamaguchi, Japan, Dassai Blue set out to craft a Junmai Daiginjo shaped by Hudson Valley water and the American environment. Following Dassai's naming convention, "Type 50" indicates rice polished to 50% of its original size; the line is bottled in three styles to showcase the versatility of the rice, and this Nama (unpasteurized) expression is temperature-sensitive and kept cold to preserve its fresh character.