Sake Trilogy – Exclusive IWA 5 Collaboration Featuring 3-Year Vertical Trilogy
It’s not often you can throw around a statement like, “I had lunch with Richard Geoffroy in Tokyo last week,” without sounding like a name-dropper or one of those kinds of guys. But I did, and it was awesome, and I actually just said that. First and foremost, I love that man. I love him for what he is and even more for what he wants to become. Yes, we all know the genius he put forth at Dom Pérignon and the trajectory of his amazing French life accomplishments, but I don’t know that guy. I know the Japanese version of Richard Geoffroy, and I feel his Japanese life and sake trajectory are a gift from the sake gods themselves. Yes, I just wrote that. He’s a gift from the sake gods and what he is doing with IWA 5 is our chance to see the past, present, and future of a slice of sake history, and history in the making – the constant and continued “in the making”, because as you will find out Richard is a shark that cannot or will not stop moving. He is tirelessly in pursuit of the unattainable sake perfection, and we have his back always! 
When we met, Richard and I spoke at a very cool altitude that I am not used to. Almost a rarified air of experience, time, and personal wisdom. It’s actually tiring because my monkey brain is literally communicating with a rice-and-water Einstein, and the net is always a post-marathon fatigue of speaking about un-thought of and un-spoken about concepts in the history of sake. It’s really fun for me and very humbling as well. In this light, I always try to bring my “A-Game” monkey brain when we get together so I can give him some insight and belief systems from my sake universe that are perhaps enlightening and maybe somewhat stimulating for him. He did, by the way, take the Shinkansen from Toyama just for our lunch, so I am glad one of my monkey brain ideas had legs.
Read About IWA 5 Trilogy
The thing about IWA 5 sake is that it is a continuum and not just one sake. It is thousands of sakes posing as one bottle with one number on it. That’s awesome, but it is also very one dimensional, when you really need 3D to fully comprehend this sake brewing endeavor. In this light and in my field of vision as a retailer of sake, who knows very few (if anybody) could buy a complete vertical tasting to consume and comprehend the IWA 5 meaning from 1-6, I needed to carve out a partial sample of this concept. I needed to look at pricing, each version changes in price as time and quantity become unbalanced, and factor in a way to see the entire IWA 5 concept in a 3 bottle sampling that I pitched as a “trilogy” or the IWA 5 Trilogy. And voila, both he and I created this trilogy at that lunch in Tokyo.
On the home page of truesake.live you will now see an opportunity to taste history in a three-bottle set of IWA 5 sakes that will bring new meaning to your personal sake evolution. To help you in your understanding of this game-changing sake brewing (assemblage on steroids) concept, Richard personally wrote about each sake in the set, and about the entirety of the mission in his brain and in his words. And we would like to thank him and his team for granting us “exclusive” rights to this delicious effort to capture time in 3 bottles.
Please visit our website to learn more details and remember that we will also be selling IWA 5 Assemblage 6 (the currently released available version) individually online and in our store.
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