Okushika

Okushika is the aged-sake label of Akishika Shuzo, founded in 1886 in Nose-cho, northern Osaka, a brewery that practices what it calls integrated farming and brewing by having its brewers work the rice fields from spring through autumn before returning to the cellar in winter. The brewery produces exclusively pure-rice sake and is committed to non-pesticide cultivation using a cyclical method that returns rice bran and other by-products as fertilizer. Okushika specifically refers to sake aged five years from the main Akishika lineup, developing a dense, rounded richness with defined acidity and depth associated with long-term maturation.