Brooklyn Kura 'Blue Door' Nama Junmai Sake

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Brooklyn Kura 'Blue Door' Nama Junmai SakeNamed for the iconic entrance to the Brooklyn Kura taproom, the Blue Door is fermented slightly warmer than their ginjo sake making it stout, earthy and dry. It is left unpasteurized (nama) giving it life and vibrancy. Rice: Calrose and Yamada Nishiki rice milled to 70% Full bodied, earthy, dry, umami laden with subtle notes of banana and ripe melon.

and 1% Carmenère

Natural yeasts are used during fermentation and the wine is aged in oak barrels for 16-18 months prior to bottling

On the nose

125 g/L residual sugar

9 hectares

and trained in the traditional braid-like Cordon Trenzado method

cherries and cedar

The grapes are not destemmed

without any of the secondary varieties that frequently make appearances in these appellations

Erbaluce may only give its name to a label when grown in the Canavese

decades-old Viennese-oak casks

is home to a mere 20 hectares of vines