A winemaking legend redefines his craft with a new, unexpected challenge: sake-brewing.
, who had created new bottle designs at Dom Pérignon, to imagine the packaging for Iwa. Kuma had previously worked on a project, never realized, for the Champagne brand, and the collaboration with both men was the result, Geoffroy says, of “a 20-year friendship with both Marc and Kengo.” Geoffroy chose the rugged Toyama prefecture of western Japan for its pristine isolation and for the purity of its snow-melt water. “Sake is all about water, its second main ingredient,” he says.
The same top chefs who embrace Dom Pérignon have likewise gravitated to Iwa, which retails for approximately $195 per bottle. “Richard has pushed the [sake-making] process to the limit,” says Daniel Boulud, who serves Iwa 5 at his new omakase sushi spot,
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