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Kubota

Asahi-Shuzo (朝日酒造)·Niigata·Founded 1830

Nagaoka, rice fields of Echigo

Nagaoka, Niigata. Not Asahi Shuzo (旭酒造) of Iwakuni, which brews Dassai.

A numbered “longevity” range (Hyakuju, Senju, Manju…) in the light Echigo style.

Asahi-Shuzo (朝日酒造) has brewed in Nagaoka, Niigata, since 1830, using soft groundwater and rice from the surrounding paddies. In 1985 they launched Kubota, taking a name from the brewery’s earlier house identity.

Do not confuse this Asahi with Dassai’s Asahi Shuzo (旭酒造) in Yamaguchi. Same reading, different characters, different prefecture, different glass. Kubota is Niigata: dry, composed, built for food.

The core range is named for long life — 百寿, 千寿, 萬寿, 翠寿, 紅寿 — each a different polish and temperature story. Snow Peak (雪峰) is a yamahai junmai daiginjo in 500 ml: the same clean house, with a wilder starter. On the shelf now: Manju, Manju on house yeast, Manju muroka nama genshu, Suiju namazake, Senju ginjo nama genshu in 1.8 L, and Seppo.

Signature bottles

Lines we look for

Representative names — not a complete catalogue. Where the cellar has a matching SKU, the name opens that bottle.

萬寿 · 萬壽
Manju
Junmai daiginjo at the top of the everyday Kubota ladder — plus a house-yeast brewing and a muroka nama genshu.
In the shop
翠寿 · 翠壽
Suiju
A nama (unpasteurised) daiginjo — keep it cold.
In the shop
雪峰
Yukimine / Snow Peak
Junmai daiginjo in 500 ml; muscat grape and melon, a Snow Peak collaboration.
In the shop
千寿 · 千壽
Senju
Ginjo nama genshu — this listing is the 1.8 L bottle.
In the shop