奥能登最古の酒蔵
250年の歴史

Sogen Sake Brewery was founded in the mid-Edo Period,
1768, even before America declared independence in 1776.
Legend says Sogen Chugoro who traced his roots to
Yoshiharu Hatakeyama, the lord of Nanao-jo Castle
in the Sengoku Period, started business and his descendant
was trained in a brewery in Itami (present-day Hyogo
Prefecture) and mastered the secrets of ne sake brewing.

Since then, we have carried on the tradition and have been
brewing sake to please our customers for over 240 years.
Our motto is, “Our customers keep coming back to us.”

能登が生んだ
世界に誇る食の芸術

宗玄酒造は日本四大杜氏に数えられる能登杜氏発祥の蔵と言われています。
杜氏とは蔵元で酒造りにあたる最高責任者を指し、
多くの蔵人を指導する酒造のプロフェッショナルです。

It is said Sogen Sake Brewery is the birthplace of
Noto’s chief sake brewers who are ranked as one of the
four best brewers in Japan. Chief sake brewers are the
superintendents in breweries and are the professionals
entrusted with training many brewers.



宗玄の杜氏・坂口幸夫は１５歳で酒造りの道に進み、
この道４０年を数える名人です。
能登杜氏・波瀬正吉氏のもとで修業し、
一九九七年に宗玄の杜氏となりました。

Yukio Sakaguchi started his career as a brewer at the age of 15
and has been brewing for 40 years. He was trained
under Noto’s chief sake brewer, Shokichi Hase, and
became the chief brewer for Sogen in 1997.





フルーティで繊細な味を持つ吟醸酒の高品質化に成功し、
「"能登流"と呼ばれる昔ながらの酒造りに学びながらも、
決して真似ることのない自分自身の新たな酒造り」を誇りとしています。

He succeeded in making high-quality Ginjo-shu with a
fruity, delicate taste. He is proud of his own
contemporary style of sake brewing, garnered through
years of traditional brewing called the “Noto Style.”

隧道蔵