Senkin
Senkin
Senkin, Tochigi
26 entries. The brewery taking all of its sake back to kimoto — its “Edo-gaeri”.
Coverage — H2 2022〜H2 2026
The background is this brewery's flagship bottle — Senkin Modern Sanshiki Happo Genshu (83 pts)
- Founded
- 1806 (Bunka 3)
- Location
- Baba, Sakura, Tochigi
- Owner
- Kazuki Usui, 11th generation
- Toji
- Masato Usui
- Brewing
- All production to kimoto (“Edo-gaeri”)
- Rice
- Domaine Sakura (grown in Sakura; Kamenoo and others)
Ordered by overall score. The stars, flavour radar and specs are in the lineup below.
The 3 most recently posted. The score, stars and flavour radar are all actual figures from that episode's review.
Posted 2026.05.17
A step forward for sparkling X
H1 2026
TOCKY's report
Numata's report
- Rice
- Kame no O
- Polishing ratio
- —
- Alcohol
- 13%
- Type
- —
- List price
- ¥2,500
From Senkin, the celebrated sake representing Tochigi, here's Organic Nature X. The Organic Nature line includes a kijoshu and a nigori, but in recent years a sparkling version made through secondary fermentation in the bottle was born. The sparkle, produced by fermentation that keeps going after bottling, is intense yet fine-grained. A gorgeous sweet-tartness and the pale richness of the nigori ride the popping bubbles and spread all through your mouth and heart.
Posted 2026.10.04
A Midsummer Night's Beetle
H2 2026
TOCKY's report
Numata's report
- Rice
- Yamadanishiki
- Polishing ratio
- —
- Alcohol
- 13%
- Type
- Junmai (pure rice), kimoto (traditional starter method), namazake (unpasteurised)
- List price
- ¥2,200
仙禽が毎年初夏に発売する「かぶとむし」をご紹介。レモン、ライム、グレープフルーツのような爽やかな酸味に、マスカットのような優しい甘さ、生酛由来のコクを伴う酸っぱさが合わさって、暑さを吹き飛ばす抜群の爽快さを生み出す。透明感のある軽快な味わいに、酸味のキレが冴え渡り、余韻は短くすぐに次の一杯に手が出てしまう。真夏の元気&水分補給に1本は確保しておきたい。
Posted 2026.10.04
Forbidden Sun
H2 2026
TOCKY's report
Numata's report
- Rice
- Yamadanishiki
- Polishing ratio
- —
- Alcohol
- 13%
- Type
- Junmai (pure rice), kimoto (traditional starter method), namazake (unpasteurised), bottle-conditioned (secondary bottle fermentation)
- List price
- ¥3,300
ユナイテッドアローズとコラボした、仙禽かぶとむしの番外編。去年の反省を生かし、耐圧瓶でのご提供。強烈な発泡感に、グレープフルーツ、レモンのような酸味と、オリがらみの渋味を感じる。酸味と渋味が伸びやかな余韻を演出する。余韻の苦味が苦手なら、一口にぐいっと飲んでみよう。発泡感で心地よい喉越しを楽しめる。これぞまさに日本酒界のアサヒスーパードライ！
Newest first. Where the same sake appears more than once, those are re-reviews from a different period recorded separately, not duplicates.
| Period | Sake | Score |
|---|---|---|
| H2 2026 | Senkin Kabutomushi | 84 |
| H2 2026 | Senkin Kuwagata | 82 |
| H1 2026 | Senkin Hello World 5rd | 84 |
| H1 2026 | Senkin UA Uma | 83 |
| H1 2026 | Organic Nature X | 83 |
| H1 2026 | Senkin Organic Nature Doburoku | 81 |
| H2 2025 | Senkin Kin no Kabutomushi | 86 |
| H2 2025 | Senkin Modern Yoshiki Kijoshu | 85 |
| H2 2025 | Senkin Yukidaruma UA Collab | 84 |
| H2 2025 | Senkin Modern Sanshiki Happo Genshu | 83 |
| H2 2025 | Senkin UA Kuwagatamushi | 81 |
| H2 2025 | Senkin Akatonbo | 80 |
| H2 2025 | Senkin Yukidaruma | 79 |
| H1 2025 | Senkin Sanshiki | 83 |
| H1 2025 | Senkin Sakura OHANAMI | 79 |
| H2 2024 | Senkin Classic | 83 |
| H2 2024 | Senkin Retro | 81 |
| H2 2024 | Senkin Modern | 79 |
| H1 2024 | Senkin Hello World 3rd | 83 |
| H2 2023 | Senkin Issei | 89 |
| H2 2023 | Senkin Yukidaruma | 83 |
| H2 2023 | Senkin Hello World | 82 |
| H1 2023 | Eureka Senkin | 90 |
| H1 2023 | Senkin UA Collection UA Usagi Kijoshu Nigorizake | 86 |
| H2 2022 | Senkin Uchiage Hanabi Sake Lab | 85 |
| H2 2022 | Senkin Uchiage Hanabi | 81 |
The brewery's founding year, location, owner, toji, its thinking on rice and the account of “Edo-gaeri” are based on the Senkin official site (senkin.co.jp) and the brewery database Sakenomy. The definition of “Edo-gaeri” is quoted verbatim from the official site.
Baba, Sakura, Tochigi; founded in 1806 (Bunka 3). The sake is made by the 11th-generation owner Kazuki Usui and his younger brother Masato Usui, the toji (master brewer). Kazuki was a sommelier before he came back to the brewery. The brewing water rises from beneath the brewery, and the paddies that grow its sake rice lie on the same vein.
That thinking is “Domaine Sakura”, brewing built around rice grown in Sakura. The brewery manages the foundation seed stock of Kamenoo and is advancing an “Organic Town” plan to make all of its sake rice organic. In 2024 it rebranded under the banner “Edo-gaeri” and set a policy of moving every sake to kimoto, the traditional starter method. The brewery describes this as “respecting techniques that can be called the origin of sake brewing, pursuing the ideal ingredients, and modernising them in Senkin's own way”.
The 26 entries in Nihonshu Daizukan average 83.0 pts. Alongside the three core lines of Modern, Classic and Retro sit the seasonal Yukidaruma and Akatombo, the United Arrows collaboration, and Organic Nature, brewed without added yeast.