Iwa 5 Junmai Daiginjo Sake Assemblage 2 (720ml) Lanson Rose Champagne It begins with a burst

It begins with a burst of spice and delicately warms to a creamy richness with sweet notes of syrup and fruit

It's not a color choice

and proof that a workhorse grape can run

the palate is dry

it's an extraction question

Iwa 5 Junmai Daiginjo Sake Assemblage 2 (720ml) Lanson Rose Champagne It begins with a burstCreated 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