Iwa 5 Junmai Daiginjo Sake Assemblage 2 (720ml) Lanson Rose Champagne apricot blossoms

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Tepezate (Agave marmorata) is one of mezcal's most distinctive and challenging agave varieties—wild or semi-cultivated

Iwa 5 Junmai Daiginjo Sake Assemblage 2 (720ml) Lanson Rose Champagne apricot blossomsCreated by Richard Geoffroythe man who spent nearly three decades as chef de cave at Dom PrignonIWA 5 brings Champagne's philosophy of assemblage to Japanese sake. Assemblage 2 blends three rice varieties (Yamada Nishiki, Omachi, and Gohyakumangoku) with five different yeasts, including two wine yeasts, to create a sake of unusual width and complexity. Polished to 35%, qualifying as junmai daiginjo. Geoffroy describes Assemblage 2 as sake that drinks