Nakazawa Shuzo (中沢酒造株式会社)
Nakazawa Shuzo is a brewery in Matsuda, Kanagawa, founded in 1825. It makes Matsumidori and Ryo sake with selected rice and soft groundwater from the Tanzawa mountains. KIKI lists one of its bottles.
- Bottles listed
- 1
- Makes
- Sake
Where to buy
What kind of brewery is it?
Nakazawa Shuzo was founded in 1825 in Matsuda, Kanagawa. Alongside its work as a village headman, it brewed sake with rice from the Ashigara area. In the late Edo period it supplied the Odawara domain, and the lord gave the brewery the name Matsumidori for its sake. The 11th-generation owner now leads the brewing of Ryo and the other sake.
What makes it distinct
- Water
- Brewing water is soft groundwater from the Tanzawa mountains.
- Ingredients
- The brewery uses carefully selected good-quality sake rice.
- Yeast
- Ryo is brewed with a natural flower yeast found on the Kawazu cherry trees in Matsuda.
- Also
- The sake is still made entirely by hand, as in the past.
Visiting
- Shop
The brewery's adjoining shop offers displays, tastings and sales every day of the year, from 10:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 16:00. Brewery tours are suspended for 2026.
Compiled with AI from public pages, mainly the brewery’s own site (not yet checked by the brewery)Sources: matsumidori.jp
Bottles from this brewery
The app finds 30 bottles from this maker by their label (1 on this site).
