Brands/Ohmine
大嶺
Ohmine
Ohmine Shuzou (大嶺酒造)·Yamaguchi·Revived 2010
Mine City, Akiyoshidai karst country
Junmai genshu only, Benten spring water, and a milling scale written as 2粒 and 3粒 rather than ginjo grades.
Shop OhmineOhmine Shuzou sits in Mine City, Yamaguchi, under the Akiyoshidai plateau. The brewery had slept for more than fifty years when it was revived in 2010, taking its name from the place — 大嶺, read Ohmine.
The house brews only junmai genshu: rice and koji, no added brewer’s alcohol, and no water stirred in after fermentation. Brewing water is Benten spring water from Akiyoshidai; the everyday rice is Yamada Nishiki grown with contracted local farmers. The glass is meant to carry sweetness, umami, and acidity together, usually around 14–14.5% alcohol even though it is undiluted.
The labels speak in grain counts rather than the usual ginjo grade names. 2粒 (2 Grain) covers rice polished to between 30% and 49% remaining — the standard Yamada Nishiki 2粒 is 35%; 3粒 (3 Grain) is 50% remaining or more, with the year-round Yamada Nishiki 3粒 at 50%. On the shelf now: 2 Grain in Yamada Nishiki, Aiyama, and Dewa Sansan; 3 Grain in those three rices plus a Dewa Sansan muroka nama and an Omachi hiyaoroshi.
Signature bottles
Lines we look for
Representative names — not a complete catalogue. Where the cellar has a matching SKU, the name opens that bottle.
- In the shop
2粒 山田錦
2 Grain Yamada Nishiki
Thirty-five percent remaining — white peach, a finer mill than the 3粒.
- In the shop
2粒 愛山 · 出羽燦燦
2 Grain Aiyama / Dewa Sansan
The same milling idea, two other contracted rices.
- In the shop
3粒 山田錦
3 Grain Yamada Nishiki
Fifty percent remaining — the year-round Ohmine.
- In the shop
3粒 愛山 · 出羽燦燦
3 Grain Aiyama / Dewa Sansan
Including a muroka nama genshu of Dewa Sansan.
- In the shop
3粒 冷卸 雄町
3 Grain hiyaoroshi Omachi
Autumn-released Omachi under the 3 Grain mill.
In the KOKOMII cellar
