What Awards Has HEAVENSAKE Won?
The awards, the years and the makers.
HEAVENSAKE has received tasting medals, food-pairing awards and recognition for bottle design. A few highlights:
- Best Sake, Rolling Stone Spirit Awards 2025: PRESTIGE I with Noguchi Naohiko.
- Platinum, London Sake Challenge 2020: the historical HEAVENSAKE Junmai Daiginjo with Dassai.
- Gold Medal, 92 points, Sommeliers Choice Awards 2024: LABEL 12 with Konishi.
The year and the maker are worth keeping beside the medal. An award recognizes a particular entry, which may differ from a bottle carrying the same name today.
The register below brings together documented results from 2020 to 2026, including historical releases and bottles made for different markets. Each names the competition, year, award and winning release, with a link to its source. It is a selection of documented results, not a complete awards history.
prestige i and rolling stone
PRESTIGE I received Rolling Stone’s 2025 Best Sake award. Behind that recognition is the collaboration between Noguchi Naohiko and Régis Camus.
Noguchi-san brought previously unreleased sake from his personal archive into their work together at the Noguchi Naohiko Sake Institute. Their composition became PRESTIGE I, presented in porcelain handcrafted by Arita Porcelain Lab.
Our Rolling Stone award story follows the expression more closely. The wider record below keeps each competition’s distinctions attached to its winning entry.
australian sake awards 2026
| Winning expression | Year | Result and source |
|---|---|---|
| LABEL NOIR Junmai Daiginjo with Niizawa | 2026 | Recommended Food Matching Award, Thai Green Curry with Tofu & Vegetables |
sommeliers choice awards
| Winning entry | Year | Result and source |
|---|---|---|
| LABEL NOIR with Tatenokawa | 2024 | Gold Medal, 93 points |
| LABEL 12 with Konishi | 2024 | Gold Medal, 92 points |
| LABEL ORANGE with Urakasumi | 2024 | Silver Medal, 89 points |
monaco sake award 2025
Monaco recognized several compositions, including two separate LABEL NOIR releases. Its Mariage Award considered the sake alongside mozzarella, giving food its own place in the judging.
| Winning expression | Year | Result and source |
|---|---|---|
| LABEL NOIR with Niizawa | 2025 | Gold, Junmai Daiginjo and Daiginjo category |
| LABEL NOIR with Dewazakura | 2025 | Gold, Junmai Daiginjo and Daiginjo category; Mariage Award, mozzarella theme |
tokyo sake challenge 2025
The Tokyo Best Design Award recognized the presentation of LABEL NOIR with Niizawa. It is a design distinction, separate from a tasting medal.
| Winning entry | Year | Result and source |
|---|---|---|
| HEAVENSAKE Label Noir Junmai Daiginjo, Niizawa Sake Brewery | 2025 | Tokyo Best Design Award, International Sake |
san francisco international wine competition
These 2022 results recognize earlier brewery collaborations. The competition lists SAKE BABY! separately from the other Junmai Ginjo entry.
| Winning entry | Year | Result and source |
|---|---|---|
| HEAVENSAKE Junmai Ginjo with Hakushika | 2022 | Double Gold, archived competition results |
| SAKE BABY! by HEAVENSAKE with Hakushika, Junmai Ginjo | 2022 | Double Gold, archived competition results |
| LABEL NOIR Junmai Daiginjo with Dassai | 2022 | Gold, archived competition results |
| HEAVENSAKE Junmai 12 with Konishi | 2022 | Silver, archived competition results |
| LABEL ORANGE Junmai Daiginjo with Urakasumi | 2022 | Silver, archived competition results |
new york world wine and spirits competition
| Winning entry | Year | Result and source |
|---|---|---|
| HEAVENSAKE Junmai Daiginjo with Urakasumi | 2022 | Gold, archived competition results |
international wine challenge sake results
The year column gives the competition year. Where the database includes a release year alongside the entry name, it is retained in parentheses. Commended results are identified as such, separately from medals.
| Winning entry | Year | Result and source |
|---|---|---|
| Heavensake Junmai Daiginjo x Urakasumi (2022/2023) | 2023 | Bronze |
| Heavensake Junmai Ginjo x Hakushika (2022/2023) | 2023 | Commended |
| Heavensake Junmai Daiginjo x Urakasumi (2021/2022) | 2022 | Commended |
london sake challenge 2020
| Winning entry | Year | Result and source |
|---|---|---|
| Heavensake Junmai Daiginjo, Dassai brewery / Lucky Sake AG | 2020 | Platinum, Junmai Daiginjo, London Sake Challenge |
| HEAVENSAKE JUNMAI GINJO, Urakasumi brewery / Lucky Sake AG | 2020 | Silver, Junmai Ginjo, London Sake Challenge |
régis camus’s personal distinctions
Régis was named Sparkling Winemaker of the Year eight times at the International Wine Challenge, with wins between 2004 and 2013. Those titles recognize his work in sparkling wine. They are separate from the HEAVENSAKE sake results.
For another view of the recognition, our wine-critics article explores the scored reviews. For the bottles themselves, our taste guide compares the aromas, textures and finishes of five US releases.
