What Mori No Brewery creates is Sparkling Sake.
Not merely a sparkling expression of sake once confined to a single category,
but a bold exploration that opens entirely new value and possibility.
From rice and rice kōji,
and from the brewer’s philosophy and craft,
emerge aromas, flavors, textures, and a lingering finish
unlike anything experienced before.
Here unfolds an uncharted world of sake—
one that quietly stirs all five senses.
From this land were born four expressions—
UPAS (Snow), APE (Fire), ATUY (Sea), and NITAY (Forest).
Each draws its inspiration from the soil of Rankoshi,
and in tracing the history of this place,
the names found their voice in the Ainu language.
When cups are raised and shared,
tables—and the milestones of life—fill with color and quiet smiles.
With our gaze cast a hundred years into the future,
from here in Rankoshi we sow the seeds of Sparkling Sake,
trusting that one day,
they will come into bloom somewhere in the world.
A whisper of snow,
alighting in the glass.
Winter comes to the northern forest.
A Sparkling Sake that announces its arrival.
Endless falls of powder-fine snow.
As if echoing the scene beyond the window,
delicate lees drift and dance with the rising bubbles.
UPAS stands as the threshold of Mori No Brewery.
From here, the door opens
to a new and uncharted world of sake.
A memory of fire,
rising in aroma —
bold in spirit,
profound on the palate.
In quiet contrast to the snowbound stillness,
Rankoshi holds within it the dynamic energy of the earth.
The Niseko mountain range—
a chain of volcanoes shaped over two million years—
breathes with the memory of fire.
From this land, APE was conceived.
Matured in bourbon barrels, it awakens echoes of flame,
resonating in a richly layered, lingering finish.
A new drop of the forest,
distilled from the silence
of the sea
The sea is what nourishes the forest.
on the seafloor, thirty meters beneath the surface.
There, in a realm of darkness and stillness beyond the reach of light,
In Rankoshi, a four-kilometer stretch of coastline opens onto the Sea of Japan.
Sparkling Sake born in the forest is laid to rest
on the seafloor, thirty meters beneath the surface.
There, in a realm of darkness and stillness beyond the reach of light,
it sways gently with the tides, steeped in the memory of the sea.
ATUY is a sake born of the brewer’s spirit of exploration.
Embodying a forest
etched by the seasons
To live with the forest, and to brew alongside it.
We seek to distill the entirety of that way of life into a single drop.
The trees endure winter, awaken in bud, deepen into green,
shed their leaves, and ready themselves once more for the coming snow.
As the seasons turn, NITAY is allowed to mature in quiet time.
What the brewer arrives at, walking together with the forest,
is an expression at once elegant and vivid—
a sensation that opens like a new flower in one’s life.
