Zaku Kizui

ABV: 15%

Volume: 750ml

Brewery: Shimizu Seizaburo Shoten

Origin:  Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Grade: Junmai Daiginjo

Rice Polishing Ratio: 35%

Best Serving Temperature: 10°C - 15°C

Storage: Keep in a cool, dark and dry place

This luxurious sake can be enjoyed on its own or paired with vegetable or seafood dishes featuring yogurt or cream-based sauces.

Grilled Asparagus with Lemon Cream Sauce; Smoked Salmon with Crème Fraîche; Salmon with Dill and Yogurt Sauce

The word “Kizui” refers to that mysterious feeling that portends exciting things to come. 

This sake was a Gold Medal Winner of the International Wine Challenge 2024 and 2025.

Shimizu Seizaburo Shoten, makers of the award-winning 'Zaku' brand of sake, was founded in 1869 and is located in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan.

Suzuka is fortunate to be blessed with a natural environment ideal for sake brewing. Cool, clear water from the Suzuka Mountains springs forth into the vast Ise Plain, where rice of the highest quality grows. It is with this rice and water that Suzuka’s delicious sake has long been made. It is perhaps no coincidence that Japan’s most sacred shrine, Ise Jingu, lies in Mie Prefecture where sake has been long intertwined with Shinto rituals, both an inseparable part of daily life. Even today, those unchanged rituals are still performed at Ise Jingu, with sake fulfilling its role as a sacred drink of the gods. The brewery believes it is their destiny to brew good sake here.

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