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KANSAI THE STORY OF SAKE

ansai is Japan’s cultural and spiritual heartland, a region of crag peaks, wild forests and rolling pastures. With its clear streams, fertile soil and temperate climate, it’s also renowned across the country for its produce, and is a region ideally suited for creating nihonshu (sake). In fact, Kansai produces the most sake in Japan, and brewing began at temples and shrines across

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