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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Yamaguchi, in the Chugoku region. On record: Sake.
Regional context image (photographed in an unrecorded location)Photo: ASAKAWA KOHJI / Public domain
REGIONAL CONTEXT
The calm of San'yo, the depth of San'in.
Five prefectures split by the Chugoku Mountains into San'yo on the Seto Inland Sea and San'in on the Sea of Japan — a calm inland sea on one side, mountain basins on the other.
Drinks
Geographical Indications
- GI HagiSAKE · 2021-03-30
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 →- 1Rice terraces — ASAKAWA KOHJI · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons