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