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The local oak is key

extended aging

and leather

Drink cold but not iced as a digestivo

Flavien Nowack’s family has been making traditional

well-integrated velvety oaky tannins on the finish

This lightly cloudy medium-dry ginjo sake still contains the finest part of the fermentation sediment

and smooth velvety texture and tannin

mineral driven with a subtle effervescence and notes of pear and flowers

It does have some heft

south of Cordoba

naturally grown potato