Among Chinese sake drinkers, there is a strange phenomenon that most of the older generation like to drink strong liquor, while young people mostly like Japanese sake with a more "light" taste.
According to data from the Japan Trade Agency and other platforms, from 2011 to 2020, in the past 10 years, Japan's exports of sake to China have increased by 26 times, and the number of Chinese young people consuming Japanese sake has increased year by year. In short, Japanese sake is growing in China at an unusually rapid pace.
While Japanese sake is on fire in China, Japanese sake culture is also soaking Chinese sake table. Because of this, Japan's top sake has gradually replaced wuliangye, Luzhou laojiao, Jian Nanchun and other famous brands of liquor, becoming the object of some people's popularity. Today, let's take stock of 9 of the most expensive sake that are popular with Chinese and Japanese residents.
As a product of Japan's "sake king" Kamotsuru, Daigin Brew Hara Sake Indoya is a "pure rice" sake that does not add any brewing alcohol. The price of one is about 21,600 yen (about 1,311 yuan), which is the most contacted sake in Japan.
Although Asahi sake is made at a young age among Japan's many sake breweries, the otter festivals it produces are extremely famous and are known as the "Rafi" of sake. Among them, a 720ml "Grinding" (Chinese common name "Hatsuma" (Chinese common name "Hatsuma") for 32,400 yen (about 1,963 yuan) is quite popular among alcoholics.
Kashiwamori, the most famous brand under Katayama Sake, produces only 5 bottles a year, and the market price of 720ml each is about 50,000 yen (about 3,040 yuan). Although its price is not expensive, its production is very small, and it is called a rare "magic wine" by wine lovers.
As a treasure created by the master winemaker Naohiko Nonguchi, the wine is rich in body, slightly golden, the taste is very rich and concentrated, with the smell of fungi and nuts, high alcohol Kikurimoto, known as one of japan's three major artifacts of sake, 1800ml a bottle of the price of about 50,000 yen (about 3,035 yuan).
The self-paced Vintage range has three wines, of which the mature wine Adagio has an uncertain annual production and a high price. A 720ml bottle costs about 73,000 yen (about 4,423 yuan).
The most expensive sake is the "Zhujin Mud Nobori Daimyo Daimyo Takita", which has an annual output of only 60 bottles, and the price of a 1,800ml bottle is 108,000 yen (about 6,555 yuan).
Sudo has 2 special brands, one is called Yamakawa Kaori, and its products are all collected for "ancient rice brewing", which only produces 82 bottles a year (there is almost no circulation on the market at present); the other is called Hana Kaoru, whose products are mostly top-level pure rice Daigin, and in 2004, a 720ml deluxe version of Kaoru Kaoru costs about 141,750 yen (8,618 yuan).
Listed in 2018, Bó Lè Star Zero (also known as Absolute-0), the polished rice step has reached 0.4%! The price of a 500ml stick is 350,000 yen (about 19,877 yuan).
The "Fourteenth Generation" of Takagi Sake brewery can be said to be unknown to everyone in Japan. In addition to the brewing technology, the most shocking thing is the price of the "Fourteenth Generation", the price of 720ml of the top sake of the Fourteenth Generation, which is about 350,000 yen (21,245 yuan).
In addition to the above sake, there are many more expensive Japanese sake products, and some people in the liquor circle joke that these sake, just the famous sake, have a feeling that people can't afford to drink.
