IWA Sake – The 2024 Golden Vines® Fine Wine & Experience Online Auction Lot
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Summary
Ultimate Sake Experience: unique specially designed case of every Sake ever made by IWA signed by star winemaker & sake brewer, Richard Geoffroy; VIP tour, tasting, fine wine dinner and stay at the Shiraiwa Kura (brewery) in the Toyama Region of Japan (or, if you can’t travel to Japan, tasting and fine wine dinner in Champagne, France hosted by Richard Geoffroy) for 6 guests.
Region
Toyama Province
Country
Japan
Estimate
£7,500 - £15,000
Lot Components
Fine Wine Bottles ✓
Experience ✓
Estate Visit ✓
Vineyard Visit ✓
Tasting ✓
Social Occasion (Dinner) ✓
Overnight (1 Night) Stay ✓
The Fine Wine
Unique specially designed case of every Sake made by IWA, signed by winemaker & sake brewer, Richard Geoffroy:
IWA 5 Assemblage 1 (2019) x 1 Bottle
IWA 5 Assemblage 2 (2020) x 1 Bottle
IWA 5 Assemblage 3 (2021) x 1 Bottle
IWA 5 Assemblage 4 (2022) x 1 Bottle
IWA 5 Assemblage 5 (2023) x 1 Bottle
IWA 5 Reserves x 1 Bottle
The Experience
Ultimate 1-night Sake Experience: VIP tour, tasting, fine wine dinner and stay at the Shiraiwa Kura (brewery) in the Toyama Region of Japan (or, if you can’t travel to Japan, tasting and fine wine dinner in Champagne, France hosted by Richard Geoffroy) for 6 guests.
The Estate
With the belief that his project needed a womb from which it could emerge fully formed, Richard Geoffroy chose Tateyama in the Province of Toyama in Japan for its beauty. To the south, the Hida Mountains extend across the entire region. They are dominated by Mount Tate, one of Japan’s “Three Holy Mountains”. To the north-west stands the city of Toyama, an entrepreneurial centre with ambitions of sustainability and a distinctly progressive spirit. On the horizon: the Sea of Japan. Mountains, land, sea, village, city: a quintessential Japanese landscape melding industry and agriculture, urbanism and rurality, tradition and modernity, purity and hybridity.
The kura (Sake brewery) is called Shiraiwa, after the site that welcomes it. Harmoniously slotted into the landscape, in profound dialogue with the history of rural architecture, it channels the core principles of IWA: inclusivity, horizontality, community. Workers and guests, production and reception, live and work under the same roof, share the same accommodations, and gather around a unique hearth. IWA’s unique approach to production informed the layout of the Shiraiwa kura.
Terms & Conditions
Experience to be taken up within 12 months of completion of the Auction.
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