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  • Premium sake made without added alcohol bears the prefix "junmai" meaning pure rice.

    Sierra Sun - Top Stories By Janice Jones 2008

  • Tokubetsu junmai, meaning "special" junmai, indicates the use of exceptional handling techniques, unique rice strains, or rice more highly polished than the minimum requirements.

    Sierra Sun - Top Stories By Janice Jones 2008

  • Drink a small portion of each chilled, and start with the Otokoyamaa nice dry junmai, move on to the Kurosawa which to me has a much more floral fragrance, and is a bit sweeter.

    The Art of Not-Working - Shin Sen Gumi Yakitori, Gardena e d b m 2006

  • I saw a sake titled, "Kyoto-style Special Junmai", and since I'm a Kyotophile and I like junmai pure-rice sake, I decided to give it a try.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • Unfortunately, although my soy sauce is organic and my sake is junmai pure-rice, none of that industrial alcohol in my sake!

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • The waiter was adept at explaining the sakes, and I ordered a really good one to share with my dad, a junmai ginjo called gissen , I believe.

    An Insider's View of 'Ciscogate' 2005

  • The waiter was adept at explaining the sakes, and I ordered a really good one to share with my dad, a junmai ginjo called gissen , I believe.

    An Insider's View of 'Ciscogate' 2005

  • Unfortunately, although my soy sauce is organic and my sake is junmai pure-rice, none of that industrial alcohol in my sake!

    Paper Chef: Kalbi-Gone-Local 2005

  • One fried treat is OK, but boy, those fried goods go so well with the chilled junmai sake, I had seconds, and thirds, and fourths...

    Archive 2005-02-01 2005

  • I saw a sake titled, "Kyoto-style Special Junmai", and since I'm a Kyotophile and I like junmai pure-rice sake, I decided to give it a try.

    A Dreamy First Impression: Yumeya 2005

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