Designed to enhance the flavor, this sake glass features a unique "YURAGI" shape that combines an oval and a perfect circle, maximizing the aroma and taste of sake. It also provides a high-quality experience as an everyday sake cup.
By pouring sake into a cup about halfway full (90cc-120cc) and drinking it, you can experience a new and unprecedented taste of sake. It has the effect of retaining fruity aromas, and test results have proven that it suppresses off-flavors and enhances the aroma. The change in aroma is also easily noticeable when used as a sake cup, which is one of the reasons why it is chosen as a gift.
The precise design, adjusted in 0.5 cm increments, prevents excessive flavor buildup, bringing out the subtle aromas of sake. Enjoy a special drinking experience unlike anything you've had with conventional sake cups.
The simple yet sophisticated design makes it versatile, suitable for both home use as a sake glass and for use in restaurants and bars. Its high-quality feel also makes it a perfect gift.
[Product size and weight] Φ80 mm x H66 mm, approximately 108 g
[Full capacity] Approximately 270cc
[Box size] W120mm H101mm D120mm
[Boxed weight] Approximately 267g
[Material] Porcelain
[Box specifications] Paulownia wood box
✅ Born as a new standard for sake vessels in a new era of sake, SHUWAN awakens the hidden aromas and flavors of sake, making it a perfect treat for sake lovers, or a gift for sake lovers. ✅ The trend in sake has shifted from the past ginjo boom to a more unique style, especially in the last 10 years. Younger generations of breweries have been pursuing depth of flavor by deliberately not polishing the rice, challenging themselves to create low-alcohol, light-tasting sake, and reviving sake rice varieties from before modern breeding. As a result, sake with rich umami and complexity, and unique flavors, is being produced one after another, and the industry continues to evolve. ✅ On the other hand, sake has continued to be drunk from wine glasses or sake cups, as before, and has not been able to fully bring out the unique and delicate flavors of sake that have continued to evolve over the past 10 years. With sake cups, the aroma of sake dissipates, making it difficult to enjoy its delicate fragrance. Recently, more and more restaurants are serving sake in wine glasses, but with the narrow, tapered shape that is common in wine glasses, the aroma can become too trapped, and the pungent volatile components can be strongly felt. ✅This problem
To address this issue, SHUWAN was created as a new standard for sake vessels that fully brings out the unique and delicate flavors of sake in this new era. ✅ The golden ratio sake vessel that awakens the hidden aromas and flavors of sake. SHUWAN's body is oval and the rim is perfectly round, and the height and diameter are designed down to the millimeter. This softens the pungent odors of alcohol and other substances, while retaining just the right amount of the sake's aromatic components, allowing the delicate aroma and soft sweetness of sake to spread richly in your mouth. ✅ By pouring sake into the vessel about halfway (90cc to 120cc) and drinking it, the off-flavors of sake, such as acids and other pungent odors, are released just enough, while the delicate aromas of sake (such as the banana-like aroma represented by isoamyl acetate and the fruity aroma represented by ethyl caproate) are contained within the vessel, allowing the aroma and flavor to unfold in a well-balanced way. Please experience this new and unprecedented deliciousness of sake. ✅ "SHUWAN" is actually used for tasting at numerous leading sake breweries, including Aramasa, Kazenomori, Nichinichi, Ubusuna, and Tanaka Rokugo. ✅ In 2024, the "NEXT Wine Glass" was crowdfunded on Makuake.
Attracting attention as a new standard sake vessel, it achieved a crowdfunding goal of 11.07 million yen (2,215% of the target) with the support of 1,149 backers. ✅It has been featured in many media outlets such as LEON, Chronos, GOETHE, and dancyu, and is being adopted by restaurants that receive high ratings from Michelin and Tabelog Awards, as well as luxury foreign hotels, famous sake bars, and other establishments. ✅The design is by Karatsu ceramic artist Kentaro Murayama, and the production is done by hand, one piece at a time, by craftsmen at the workshop of Satoshi Tsuji in Hizen Yoshida, Saga Prefecture, a pottery producing area with a 400-year history, similar to Arita ware. ✅ As "traditional sake brewing" is registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, and as we promote sake as a part of Japanese culture, SHUWAN will become the new standard for sake and Japanese culture, creating a world that connects "drinkers" around the globe with "producers" such as breweries and master brewers.
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