Shichiken Yama No Kasumi Sparkling Sake Kermit Lynch Pair with glazed pork belly

Pair with glazed pork belly

Claudio's father bought this tiny Cannubi Boschis parcel in 1972 and the family has bottled it separately since 1980 — five generations in Monforte d'Alba making some of the most quietly brilliant Barolo in the zone

showing the fruitier

From 80+ year old vines

and spiced wild strawberry unfold with extraordinary delicacy and energy

Shichiken Yama No Kasumi Sparkling Sake Kermit Lynch Pair with glazed pork bellyFounded in 1750 at the foot of Mount Kaikoma in Yamanashi's Hakushu a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Shichiken uses some of Japan's purest water, filtered through 10 million year old granite, and only locally grown rice. Yama No Kasumi, meaning "mountain mist," is their flagship sparkling expression, inspired by the mists that adorn the nearby peak, with particles of rice dancing in the glass like droplets of snow. Produced via secondary bottle fermentation