Accounting for near 40% of Japan’s sakamai (sake rice) manufacturing, Yamada Nishiki is called the king of sake rice. However because the nation grapples with a warming local weather, there may be a revolution on the horizon.
Even in Hyogo Prefecture, the birthplace of Yamada Nishiki, brewers are questioning how for much longer this rice cultivar has on the throne. Together with different fashionable varities, the rice is feeling the warmth.
“The most important problem is that the rice high quality has modified,” Yoichiro Yamana, Twelfth-generation proprietor of the three-century-old Yamana Shuzo, positioned in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, explains by way of electronic mail. “In comparison with the previous, the rice is now extra proof against dissolving.
