Aya Black Label

This is the sake Ayaka Ito brews with her Beshock family every year with the most well-known brewery of Aichi, Houraisen. Ayaka makes Aya Black with locally grown rice from Aichi, her hometown: dry, balanced, with white flowers and banana on the nose and a clean, structured finish.

At Sake Bar Gaga, we serve Aya Black lightly chilled with our Mushroom and Cilantro Salad. The sake's aged aromatics stand up to the cilantro's bold fragrance, the balsamic plays against the sake's softer sweetness, and the pistachio and mushroom add grain-like earthy notes that give the pairing depth.