Sake model, Dassai, introduced the opening of a state-of-the-art brewery and tasting room in Hyde Park, NY this summer season, in addition to the launch of their new U.S. model, Dassai Blue. Over the previous thirty years, Dassai has skilled exponential development in Japan, the united statesand globally. Hiroshi and Kazuhiro Sakurai, the daddy and son, third and 4th era Chairman and President, have refined Dassai and expanded its markets. Opening the New York brewery is their newest step into the worldwide sake market. “The growth of manufacturing to america is a major step in the direction of realizing the need I had once I began Dassai 30 years in the past, which was to have Dassai loved all around the world,” mentioned Chairman Hiroshi Sakurai.
A Junmai Daiginjo-only sake, Dassai is taken into account the very best degree of premium sake. Constituted of 100% Yamada Nishiki rice, the gold normal of sake rice, Dassai nonetheless makes use of craft sake strategies, making sake batch-by-batch, utilizing handmade koji, and fermenting in every small tank. Sake breweries that solely produce such premium sake are uncommon even in Japan, with Dassai Blue changing into the primary of its variety within the U.S. The Sakurai’s named their new creation “Dassai Blue,” which comes from an previous Japanese proverb that claims “indigo dye is bluer than the indigo plant from which it’s derived”.
The Dassai Blue Brewery is a 55,000 sq. foot facility with an annual capability of 140,000 circumstances (9L per case), producing solely craft sake made by each veteran employees from the Dassai brewery in Iwakuni in addition to native recruits. For now, Dassai Blue is produced with the identical Yamada Nishiki rice imported from Japan. Nevertheless, Dassai Blue has spent three years cultivating Yamada Nishiki within the U.S. and dealing with Isbell Farms in Arkansas in an effort to scale back their carbon footprint and foster a sustainable provide chain. Dassai can be trying to find an upstate producer to distill its “sake kasu,” rice lees into Shochu in addition to pursuing a purchaser of the rice powder from sharpening and has made a rare funding in water purification.
The story of Dassai is one wealthy in historical past, tradition and unparalleled high quality. The unique brewery was based within the 1700s and continues to be in the identical location within the mountains of Iwakuni in Yamaguchi, in Southern Japan. The Sakurai household took over within the late 1800s in the course of the Meiji period and began the sake brewing enterprise as Sakurai Sake Brewery. After the Second World Conflict, in 1948, they established Asahi Shuzo with Hiroshi Sakurai changing into the household’s third-generation CEO in 1984. He launched the model Dassai shortly thereafter, rising it to the primary premium sake model in Japan by way of each gross sales and manufacturing quantity, for Ginjo and Daiginjo ranges.
The Dassai Blue property consists of two buildings: the brewery and a rice sharpening facility, each of which had been designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and their Japanese companion, Jun Mitsui. The inside is designed with each magnificence and performance in thoughts, welcoming guests to look at the brewing course of via a number of home windows trying into varied manufacturing rooms. The outside design mixes fashionable and conventional, as seen within the tin roof and the burnt cedar partitions of the rice mill. The usage of wooden incorporates Japanese parts whereas nonetheless mixing with the pure environment of Hyde Park.
Dassai can be proudly collaborating with the Culinary Institute of America (CIA,) additionally situated within the Hudson Valley, to additional the training and consciousness of sake in america. As a part of the partnership, they are going to be growing curriculum, certification packages, workshops, particular occasions and tastings. Since sake performs an vital function in Japanese society, these new distinctive packages will additional the training of Japanese delicacies and tradition for CIA college students, meals fanatics, meals trade professionals and different guests to the Hudson Valley.
To encourage Dassai’s development in New York, Empire State Improvement provided the Japan-based brewery as much as $588,235 in performance-based tax credit via the Excelsior Jobs Program. Dassai has invested greater than $80 million within the facility and can create 32 new jobs. “New York’s wineries, cideries and craft beverage trade are engines for job creation, tourism, and regional financial development,” mentioned Governor Kathy Hochul. “Dassai’s growth into the Mid-Hudson Area builds on New York’s nationwide and worldwide management in agribusiness and shall be a welcome addition to this trade.”
The Dassai Blue Sake Brewery is situated at 5 St Andrew Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538 (2 hours north of Manhattan by way of automobile or Amtrak). It is going to be open Thursdays and Fridays from 1pm-4pm beginning October nineteenth for small group excursions and tastings by reservation solely via the corporate’s web site, www.dassai.com.
The expertise entails: – A 20 minute tour of our new state-of-the-art brewery, led by one among our sake specialists – A 30 minute guided tasting of Dassai Blue 50, the primary sake brewed in Hyde Park – A cheese & meats pairing (a non-meat choice can be accessible).
GSN’s Remarks: Beautiful calmly citrus nostril with a mouthwatering recent koji character. A spherical, semi-creamy mouthfeel opening with a fruity entry. This rapidly strikes into loads of minerality, with notes of lychee, coconut and melon. A protracted taste journey results in a dry and barely chalky end on the palate. This can be a good sake, fairly refreshing, filled with physique and character, glorious by itself, or paired with sushi or sashimi dishes. GSN Ranking: A+
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