WATER SHAPES THE DRINK
Does water shape the drink?
Mashing, rice washing, dilution — water is the first ingredient of every drink. But "this water, therefore this taste" is a claim no one can make.
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Nagano, in the Koshinetsu region. On record: Sake, Craft Beer, Japanese Whisky.
Regional context image (photographed in Katsunuma, Koshu, Yamanashi)Photo: Asturio Cantabrio / CC BY-SA 4.0
REGIONAL CONTEXT
Sunlit basins and snow-bound plains.
Yamanashi, Nagano and Niigata: mountain-ringed basins alongside snowy plains opening onto the Sea of Japan — vineyards and rice paddies within a single region.
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SAKE
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CRAFT BEER JAPAN
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JAPANESE WHISKY
Drinks
Geographical Indications
- GI NaganoWINE · 2021-06-30
- GI NaganoSAKE · 2021-06-30
- GI Shinano OmachiSAKE · 2023-06-30
SOURCES
- 1酒類の地理的表示一覧国税庁 National Tax Agency · Government · accessed 2026-09-26
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PHOTO CREDITS
All image credits →- 1Koshu vineyard — Asturio Cantabrio · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons