Sun Masamune Go-Shu Australian Sake

Penrith is proud to be home to Australia’s only sake brewery.

Sun Masamune – the maker of Go-Shu Australian Sake – moved to Penrith in 1996. The company sources its bottles from O-I glass.

Its products are sold throughout Australia and Sun Masamune export 80% of the sake it produces, including to Japanese markets.

Brewery Director Allan Noble said Sun Masamune’s location in Penrith offered many advantages.

The brewery in Cassola Place is close to O-I Glass and offers good transport connections to Sydney. Tucked at the back of the industrial area in Cassola Place, near the Nepean River and surrounded by trees, it offers visitors a beautiful location to taste the Go-Shu sake range.

The business is also well placed for sourcing its raw material – Australian rice from the Murrumbidgee irrigation area.

“Only 10 countries outside of Japan produce their own sake, some import their milled rice, but we keep the whole process here in Australia, from the ground up,” Mr Noble said.

Mr Noble said that, as an exporter, the future Western Sydney International Airport would provide San Masamune, which currently employs 10 people,  more options.