This special Trilogy offering through our friends at True Sake is so enticing and intriguing. To take the opportunity to open three bottles of IWA is quite frankly, the ultimate extravagance, no doubt. IWA Assemblage 4 (2022) is more in the direction of Japan – white aromatics with a sense of great fluidity and dynamics and yet juicier and joyful. To be enjoyed with fish, fruit and vegetal. IWA Assemblage 5 (2023) is a counterpoint. I have been making it more dramatic. More structure and depth. Subtle, silky tanins. Somewhat more in the direction of wine, without mimicking anything. To be enjoyed with more bold flavors – darker, richer, and even with spice. From chocolate to red meat. IWA Assemblage 6 (2024) is a synthesis of all prior releases. It is a seminal tipping point. Closing one cycle and opening another. More focused. Resulting in greater balance than anything in the past, I dare to say. There is something classic revisited. There is more on every direction – every axis. I have been traveling the world witnessing the reactions and clearly Assemblage 6 is hitting the right trigger. It has a more universal reaction. To be enjoyed with any food scenario. It is truly versatile across the full spectrum of flavors and global dishes.
