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© KYODOAged like fine wine? Reviving the forgotten culture of vintage sake
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shirokuma
A Colheita Port would be the closest in the wine world.
A single vintage-dated Tawny Port (all grapes from one harvest) aged in small, used oak barrels.
It must be aged at least 7 years but 8 years is typical but may spend as many as 50 years or more maturing in wood.
Nick Gardiner
The term “Vintage Sake” for Koshu is not appropriate in my opinion. Vintage usually refers to a wine from a single year, not something that has been deliberately aged.
For sake I would use “aged” for deliberately oxidized style or “matured” for sake that has had a few years maturation. Very different beasts.
Quite a few things incorrect in this article actually, but I’m a sake geek!