Tenryou is No. 1 at Gifu prefecture which uses the highest quality sake rice and polishes all sake rice at their own brewery.
The brewery appointed their contracted farmers to cultivate high-quality sake rice. It mainly uses "Hida Homare" sake rice, whereas for some sake it uses "Yamada Nishiki". "Hida Homare" is planted in rice fields at the foot of the Northern Alps. The temperature difference between the mountains is big. The sake rice cultivated in the rice fields is soft inside but hard in the outside, which is ideal for making Japanese sake.
The water is 100% pure natural water extracted 30 meteres below the ground from the Hida Mountains; it is very soft and naturally sterile which is very suitable for brewing sake.
Tenryou has won numerous awards over the years, including 10 consecutive gold awards from the Annual Japan Sake Award and 11 consecutive gold awards from Tokai Sake Awards. Tenryou's Sake has been selected as the first-class service sake for JAL domestic flights in Japan since 2011.
