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When you make things from scratch like Iio Jozo does by making sake first, then fermenting that into vinegar, naturally you will have some by-products. In sake making the by-product is called sake kasu (sake lees). Iio Jozo decided to take their sake kasu and basically ferment it into vinegar. Sounds simple enough, right? But Iio Jozo ages it for 10 years before they call it Akasu (red vinegar). This special brew is very different, almost like a tame sherry vinegar crossed with rice vinegar. Top sushi chefs use it in their rice, but we find it amazing in many other way - think pickles, vinaigrettes, etc.
Ingredients: water, rice, aged sake lees
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 23.00 – Sold Out
Originally Iio Jozo had told us we couldn't sell this vinegar, but over time they have come to trust us to truly honor the beauty of their labor-intensive vinegars. Their apple vinegar is no different. The farmer, Akinori Kimura, is known for growing “miracle apples”.
This vinegar is one of the most delicate vinegars Iio Jozo makes in our opinion. Initial taste leads your taste buds thinking they are drinking one of the most refined ciders in the world, but then a blanket of subtle acid comes over your palate. Truly a one of kind vinegar...
Ingredients: apple
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 44.00
Iio Jozo's brown rice vinegar is made just like their Pure and Premium rice vinegar, expect it is made with brown rice. This wonderful brew has a rich, malty taste. It is great for adding to broths, ponzu, pickles or making vinaigrette.
Ingredients: water, rice
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 68.00 – Sold Out
The same size used by chefs!
Iio Jozo's brown rice vinegar is made just like their Pure and Premium rice vinegar, expect it is made with brown rice. This wonderful brew has a rich, malty taste. It is great for adding to broths, ponzu, pickles or making vinaigrette.
Ingredients: water, rice
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 17.50
To start, Joël Robuchon says that this vinegar is one of the best ingredients from Japan. Do we need to say more? Of course, this vinegar is truly unique. The nose smells of fresh fig and the taste is that of fig leaf with wonderfully complex acid notes.
Ingredients: fig
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 20.00
Iio Jozo has added honey to their amazing Purple Sweet Potato vinegar to sweeten it up a bit. Now we have an earthy, tart and sweet vinegar that could become the perfect shrub, vinaigrette or whatever you feel would be the best application. Enjoy this wonderful provision.
Ingredients: water, purple sweet potato, rice, honey
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 42.00 $ 70.00
The same size used by chefs!
Iio Jozo has added honey to their amazing Purple Sweet Potato vinegar to sweeten it up a bit. Now we have an earthy, tart and sweet vinegar that could become the perfect shrub, vinaigrette or whatever you feel would be the best application. Enjoy this wonderful provision.
Note: the best by date is 07/30/2021.
Ingredients: water, purple sweet potato, rice, honey
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 57.00
Omiyage, beautifully packaged souvenirs brought back from one's travels, are an important part of the gift giving culture in Japan. We are excited to offer our first Omiyage with this wonderful box that contains two bottles of Iio Jozo's artisanal vinegar.
This box contains a 500ml bottle of Iio Jozo Pure Rice Vinegar and a 500ml bottle of Iio Jozo Pure Premium Rice Vinegar.
For both of these vinegars Iio-san uses pesticide-free rice and spring water to first make sake, which he then ferments into vinegar. The Pure Rice Vinegar is made using 200 grams of rice per liter - which is five times the minimum amount required by law. The Pure Premium Rice Vinegar goes even further, using 320 grams of rice to make a liter. Both are exceptional products that deserve a place in your pantry.
Ingredients: water, rice
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Pure Rice Vinegar
Pure Premium Rice Vinegar
Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 89.00
Kakuida’s organic black vinegar is a very special product. This rice vinegar has been aged for five years in black earthenware jars in the sun, wind and rain on the shores of Kagoshima Bay under the watch of the active volcano, Sakurajima. The magic of this process creates a vinegar that combines a mellow acidity with a full, round taste and a beautiful caramel color.
Ingredients: organic brown rice, organic yeast, water
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On the shores of Kagoshima Bay in the town of Kirishima, Kakuida produces black vinegar using traditional methods. The fields around their factory are covered with thousands of earthenware jars within which brown rice, water and koji are left to ferment and make black vinegar. Kakuida ages their vinegar for up to five years, allowing time and nature to contribute to the making of this unique vinegar.
$ 19.00
This vinegar is really like no other, which is due to its combination of ingredients: Iio Jozo Pure Rice Vinegar, brown sugar from Tanegashima, Australian sea salt processed in Hyogo prefecture, and a dashi made from organic sun-dried tomatoes from the USA, organic bay leaf from Shizuoka prefecture & organic black peppercorns from Sri Lanka. The vegetable dashi adds such a unique umami component that works beautifully for pickling. Iio-san says to simply add cut veggies, place in Ziplock bag, add some vinegar, put in the fridge overnight and then you have wonderful pickles. I also often use it as base for a vinaigrette.
Ingredients: water, rice, sugar, salt, dried tomato, black pepper, bay leaf
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 38.00
Like their Pure Rice Vinegar, this vinegar is made with ingredients grown without pesticides and Iio Jozo’s house-made sake. However, to make a liter of this premium vinegar they use 320 grams of rice. This recipe was developed over a 20 year period by the fifth generation Iio-san to have a rounder, fuller taste and has minimized the acidic nose of regular vinegar.
Ingredients: water, rice
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 62.00
The same size used by chefs!
Like their Pure Rice Vinegar, this vinegar is made with ingredients grown without pesticides and Iio Jozo’s house-made sake. However, to make a liter of this premium vinegar they use 320 grams of rice. This recipe was developed over a 20 year period by the fifth generation Iio-san to have a rounder, fuller taste and has minimized the acidic nose of regular vinegar.
Ingredients: water, rice
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 19.00
Iio Jozo uses only pesticide-free rice and spring water to first make their own sake which is then fermented into rice vinegar. This artisanal product uses 200 grams of rice to make a liter of vinegar - five times the minimum amount required by law.
Ingredients: water, rice
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 32.50
The same size used by chefs!
Iio Jozo uses only pesticide-free rice and spring water to first make their own sake which is then fermented into rice vinegar. This artisanal product uses 200 grams of rice to make a liter of vinegar - five times the minimum amount required by law.
Ingredients: water, rice
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 41.25 $ 50.00
Like all of their other vinegars, first Iio-san makes a sake from the main ingredient and then turns it into vinegar. Same goes for this purple sweet potato vinegar, which the resulting sake looks like a brilliant ruby red beet soup. The finished vinegar itself has beautiful purplish color. On the nose and palate you can taste the earthy potato, but it also has the round fullness of a superb red wine vinegar. This product is really amazing.
Ingredients: water, purple sweet potato, rice
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
$ 32.25 $ 43.00
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Marusho’s use of Kumano cedar barrels to ferment their rice vinegar provides a very distinct flavor. This vinegar is lightly seasoned with amazake and mirin, so it has light sweetness, but it is also very lean and crisp in flavor.
Ingredients: glutinous brown rice, rice, amazake (rice koji, rice), mirin (starch, rice, brewing alcohol, water, rice koji)
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Since 1879 Marusho has been using traditional methods to brew rice vinegar in the seaside town of Nachi-Katsuura in Wakayama Prefecture. Using locally-grown rice and water from their private well, Marusho brews their vinegar in 12 ancient Japanese cedar barrels - each one named after a Japanese sumo yokozuna (champion).
$ 19.00
Iio Jozo’s wonderful sushi vinegar is made from their Pure Rice Vinegar, brown sugar from Tanegashima, wildflower honey from Argentina, and Australian sea salt processed in Hyogo prefecture. Just looking at those carefully curated ingredients you can see why this condiment is incredible. Use this vinegar when making Temaki, Chirashi or Inari sushi, but don’t stop there, it is great as a vinaigrette, etc. Enjoy!
Ingredients: water, rice, sugar, honey, salt
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Iio Jozo is a 123 year old vinegar company located on the Sea of Japan near the town of Miyazu. By controlling the process from start to finish and sticking to traditional production methods, Iio-san produces what is arguably the highest quality rice vinegar in Japan.
