This outstanding product is in high demand in the very best restaurants. Rice vinegar is mixed with bonito, soy sauce and mirin, imparting a sweet, smooth smokiness with the subtle flavours of the sea.

Used in Japan as a traditional dressing on all seafood - crab, lobster etc ( the crab on the label denotes usage, not the ingredient) - it has a myriad of other uses in dressing, sauces and dumplings, limited only by the imagination.

Long-standing vinegar manufacturer Tobata Suten emphasises the importance of repetition in producing this sophisticated product which has been made the same way for 300 years. "Some essential processes haven’t changed and are strictly followed.  One of them is 'Kaiire', where the vinegar mash is mixed with an oar by hand. Since its establishment, this process has been repeated tens of thousands of times. I believe repeating the same process is not just the repetition but the accumulation of the predecessors’  attachment to the vinegar."

We know you will love this vinegar. It is one of our best sellers by far.