Sanbi

Sanbi is a limited planning sake with the meaning of 'praising Sanuki beautifully' manufactured by Kawatsuru Shuzo in cooperation with 12 liquor stores in Kagawa Prefecture.
This project, which started in 2000 AD, is attracting attention as a good example of community-based sake brewing where local liquor stores and breweries cooperate, sticking consistently from rice growing to brewing and sales.
From the brewing of the 2014 fiscal year, they use Yamada Nishiki made by contract farmers in the Tanono district, a mountainous area of Kanonji, and stick to locally grown rice.
Manufactured as unfiltered unpasteurized sake, it is characterized by a powerful sake quality maximizing the umami of rice.
By the combination of the underground underflow water of the Saita River and locally contract-cultivated Yamada Nishiki, they realize a taste expressing the natural features of Sanuki.
It is a brand embodying community-cooperative sake brewing, expressing the beauty of Sanuki with sake throughout the region by the brewery and local liquor stores cooperating and being involved consistently from rice making to sales.