First time in a year, the cicadas of the turtle sea.
It's summer sake!
It's only May, but the summer days are starting to last.
I'm going to open it now that the summer days are starting to last.
The light acidity is pleasant,
I feel it is a summer sake.
And it is low in alcohol.
I can't stop guzzling it.
It was delicious last year, too,
I bought a bottle without hesitation
I bought a bottle last year, but it was gone in no time. I'm sure I'll be back soon 🙏.
Purchase price ¥3520（1.8L)
Good evening, yan!
Is that a bottle of Semishigure 😲?
I have a 4 gou bottle and I've been waiting for 2 years to get it 🎵
I'm looking forward to drinking it more and more 😋!
🍶🤓.
Mild fruity aroma when poured: ✌️
Slightly sweet, with just a hint of alcohol ✨.
Not too much acidity, a little richness and a great balance of umami 👍.
Slightly sweet food sake. Delicious! 🤗
Last year's winner in my personal summer sake category, Semi Shigure, has already made its appearance. I was browsing around at a liquor store in Koume-machi, Nagano, and...what do you think? I bought it, thinking that it must be the season for summer sake.
It's less citrusy and acidic than last year, but it's still good...definitely a regular summer sake. I promised myself that I would drink it again this year.
Nakasendo Walk (2)
On the second day, we walked about 20 km from Kasatori Pass to Iwamuradajuku in Saku.
We enjoyed the beautiful weather while viewing sake breweries, rows of pine trees, and the Asama mountain range.
The sake brewery in the photo is Takeju Honke Sake Brewery.
Unfortunately, it was a closed day, so we were only able to see the tools on display.
I bought this 1-goupe bottle at the supermarket.
This cute turtle sea is ❣️
100% Hitogochiki
Polishing ratio 59
Alcohol 15%.
This is also classic and refreshing.
The aftertaste is quite spicy.
When the temperature rises, it tastes delicious.
It was mellow and dry as the label says.
Next to it is Karuizawa Kogen Beer!
Compared to Neko, it had a more robust taste and was delicious.
Good evening, Pon-chan!
Nakasendo walk is good. ⤴️
It's great that you are walking so well 😲.
And I'm surprised that you can buy Kame no Kai at the supermarket 🎵.
I'm glad you can try a small bottle of the dry Kame no Kai.
Good morning, Pon 😃.
That's 20km awesome 🫨 is it about 5 hours?
Another sea of turtles in a single bottle, so cute😍.
Beer and sake after walking, it's going to soak you up 😋.
Good morning, Ponchan 😃.
That's a great long distance walking on the Nakasendo road 😅I'm glad the weather looks good 😉 I like the small bottle of Kame no Umi for a trial drink 👍It would be fun to compare various drinks 🥰.
Pon-chan, here too 😀.
It's just like Nagano Prefecture that small bottles of Kame-no-Kai-san are sold in supermarkets😇.
And Nagano Prefecture seems to have quite a few good local beers 😇.
Good morning, ma-ki🐥.
I've bought only one bottle because it's heavy 😂, but if you're interested, you may want to buy a variety of bottles to compare them 😆.
Pon.
Good evening 🤩.
20km is great 🤩.
I'll take a cab on the way 🤣.
I'm so glad I can try a 1 gou bottle 🥰I haven't come across Kame no Kai yet so I'll definitely pick up a 4 gou bottle 🤣.
Good morning, @Mizuhashi 🐥.
That's about it in real terms😊It took me about 7 hours if you include breaks and sightseeing 🤣.
The sake section in the supermarket has a great selection 😳I wanted a 1-goupe bottle of that and this 😻.
Thank you Yasbaye for your time here as well 😊.
There are many expensive craft beers in my neighborhood, but in Shinshu there are also cheap ones, so I could easily buy and enjoy them 😆 There are also plenty of wines, it's really a drinking paradise😇✨.
Hi Pon-chan 😆
Nakasendo walk is a great course⁉👌
But 20km👣 is an unknown world that I can't imagine 😵🤣.
I have to learn a little from you for sustainable drinking ☝😅.
Good morning, Waka 🐥.
It's fun to see unfamiliar scenery..........................just enough exercise to drink sometimes 🤣.
I'd love to do a sake camp in Shinshu 😁.
Good morning, Koizo 🐥.
Hahaha! Cab 🤣This time it was a section where I really had to work hard because there was almost no one even in front of the station 😁.
I was so busy looking at all the alcohol 😆.
Hey Pon, I'm with you 😃.
20km is a challenging walk 💦we have a hard time just walking for an hour on weekends😅but I'd like to try it! I was in the Sakamoto - Annaka area for about 4 years for work, so I might miss it 🥹.
Hi N.E. 🐦
I also walk for sustainable drinking (lol), but I always come back home with more weight than usual because I eat more than usual at the inn 🤣.
You can enjoy walking along the Nakasendo, where there are still some townscapes and sake breweries!
Thank you Jay & Nobby for your help here 😊.
I'm looking forward to walking around here! I'm looking forward to walking around here 😆 I feel like I'm getting closer to Kanto after crossing Suwa and I'm in a meh mood 🤣.
Finally caught the cicada 🎉🥰.
I'll drink it soon now: ‼️
They all look so good and I've always wanted to drink them someday ❤️ glad 😆
Today's menu is crab cream croquettes and grilled salmon. Vinegared wakame seaweed and marinated snap peas and octopus as garnish.
I also added yuzupon to the crab cream seeds💓.
Cicadas are sloppy! Amazakai 💕Has little spiciness and bitterness, light with a hint of astringency at the end.
Throwing yuzupon into crab cream croquettes was the right choice 👏😆 It also went well with sweet salmon💓.
I'm happy because I worked hard from noon to make crab cream croquettes 🥹😋🥹😋 and cicadas are very delicious and happy too 😋 ❤️
Impressions of the alcohol by itself are in charge of shinsaku3💕.
Good evening, Mr. Peckho😄Wow, you caught the cicadas‼️I love it😍I'm sooooo jealous😆I can feel your delight in the crab cream croquettes you worked so hard to make since noon⚡️I wish cicadas would fly to me too😭.
Good evening, Pekho 🦉.
I'm so jealous - cicadas ❣️ and you made crab criccolo 😳‼️ croquettes are so hard to make, like twice, but criccolo? It's wonderful 🥹 plus the acidity, it works 😉.
Good evening, Mr. Pekho!
That's a fast opening from the capture of Mr. Cicada 🎵.
I've been wanting to drink it someday! I understand - I was thrilled to get it too 😊.
Pekho-san's delicious food and Semishigure-san - it's the best 😋!
Good morning, Pheho 😃.
Congratulations on your instant drink from getting the cicada ㊗️ 🎉Congratulations on this one, you could say it's the champ🏆 drink of the sweet and sour world 🤗It's a quiet cicada 😌We'll capture another one in the fridge ‼️
Hinahana mama-san❣️ was sold out in the online store, but I went to the store to see if I could find Cicada-kun 🎉Cicada-kun, fly to your mama's place too 😆 I'm so glad I can eat lots of crab cream croquettes at home 😋❤️
ma-ki-San❣️ capture the bottle immediately 🎉I'm so glad I could share this feeling, I'm thrilled that my longing has been realized 🥰I'm slowly enjoying my evening drink with a little leftover Cicada-san today 🥰I think it's great in summer with somen soba and tempura 💕I'm catching bugs again next week 💪.
Jay & Nobby 😭Thank you 💖You're right, it's a champ🏆🥇 drink ❣️
Mr. Quiet Cicada 😆 I think I can hear it calling from the fridge ❤️Maybe we need another bottle of relief ‼️ I'll go back to capture it 💪.
Overall 8 (out of 10)
Mr. Pekho was curious about this sake 😃.
This is my first time to try this sake!
According to the description
"Sweet and sour with a light taste.
It can be enjoyed casually while retaining the acidic structure of the flavor" 🧐.
It is delicious 😋.
Light sweet and sour taste as described👍
Seems like it would suit a scene where you keep sipping it on a summer evening with a summer meal😃.
We served it chilled😃.
Pairing impressions were made by Pekho
Personal Impressions
Aroma
Aroma of rice
Taste sensation
The higher the number, the stronger the taste (5 is the maximum)
-Spiciness: 0 at the beginning → 0 in the aftertaste
-Sweetness: 1 at the beginning → 0 aftertaste
-Sourness: 2 at the beginning → 2 in the aftertaste
-Bitterness: 0 at the beginning → 0 lingering 0
-Astringency: Start 1→ Lingering 1
-Umami: Start 2→ Lingering 1
Mouthfeel
Light (2/5)
Good evening, shinsaku3!
Peckho-san's long-awaited Cicada Shigure, Peckho-san praised it highly, but I wonder if it is more acidic than sweet in shinsaku3-san's opinion. Somehow there seems to be another difference between the two of you in your views ⁉️🤣
Good evening, shinsaku3!
I see you've opened the cicada ⤴️
I'm looking forward to it too and have it reserved in the cellar 😁✨✨.
I'll be sipping it with my meal 😋.
Good morning, shinsaku3 😃!
Oh.......! We are very happy to hear that you are a fan of our highly recommended Semishigure ‼️ 🤗Although we would drink it by itself 😅Next time, we'll have a bottle of it in a more relaxed way 😋.
Drinking at home in the latter half of GW (3)
Here's the second installment of J&N's annual repeat drinking: ‼️ I can't contain my joy at being able to drink again this year 🤭The corners of my mouth are rising 🤭 "Cicada Shigure" 🤗.
As with Tasoore, I looked back at my thoughts on past J&N posts! Here it is!
2022: It's like a cider with less carbonation and more acidity 😋.
2023 - Good acidity with a moderate sweetness, delicious 😋.
2024 This is this! This acidity ‼️ Japanese style white wine😍
Not as onomatopoeic as 🍊tasoore🍊😆I feel like it's a perfect match for J&N's mitts as well as Yamamoto's split, which is in great shape👍
Now, I'm going to try it for the 4th time this year 😙.
I'll make love to you
The softly wafting fresh aroma 😌 opens up your nostrils and makes you smile naturally with just one sip☺️
.........Wow 🥹 this this 🥹 this 🥹 this 🥹 this 🥹 this 🥹 this 🥹 this 🥹 this 🥹 this is definitely the one 😇No doubt about it, it's really good 😇I think I repeated this 10 times 😄and this in a bottle I regret that I should have bought it in a bottle 😓I will probably go back for more👍
And the entrée of the day was tempura of cod sprouts, yams and maitake mushrooms 😋I remember about 30 years ago 😅 when I was deep in the mountains of Gunma at my previous job, I picked wild cod sprouts that grew wild and ate them tempura in abundance 😌.
Jay & Nobby, good evening 😄Semishigure, it's that good 🤩I'd love to try that 🤩I bet you two rave about it so much 😏I wonder what Jay was doing in the mountains in Gunma 🤔.
Good evening, Jay & Nobby🤗. I see that when you have been drinking sake for a long time, you can compare it with the past...! I hope one day I will be able to say "last year or the year before..." 😊. And wild cod sprouts tempura...I want to try it!
Good evening, Jay & Nobby!
It's finally here: ⤴️
It's fun to drink every year and look back on our impressions 😊.
Thanks to you two, this is the first time this year that we will be able to enjoy Semishigure, and we hope to take the time to enjoy it 😋.
Jay & Nobby, good evening 🌛You went for the highly recommended one 🍶The acidity of the biship looks so delicious 🤤I was reminded of Toppo from Lotte's 🤣.
Jay & Nobby, I was wondering about ❣️ Semishigure ✨I'm jealous that everyone is drinking so well at Sake no Wa 💕Tempura looks amazing 😋It seems to go well with sake 👍It's nice to be deep in the mountains of Gunma! Were you drinking sake then? 😍
Hi Jay & Nobby 😃.
The cicada looks amazingly delicious ✨.
The tempura looks delicious as well 😋.
The food combination also seems to go well with the sourness of the semi shigure 🎵.
Good morning, Jay & Nobby 😀
Mr. Turtle Sea, 4 years in a row of cicadas is awesome😇.
It's a sake I'd like to try, but haven't come across it yet 🤣.
The combination of bitterness and strong acidity of wild vegetables sounds delicious too😇
Hi Jay & Nobby 😃.
It's interesting to review your past posts 😁.
And your comment about how you feel like this is the one every year ❗️ 😁.
I'm curious to see what you have to say about this one 😁 I'll buy it when I see it 😆.
Hi HinaHanaMama 😃.
This semi-shigure is very good and highly recommended for us 🤗I'm working in a completely different job now 😅I was involved in the construction of a highway 🛣️ deep in the mountains of Gunma 😌.
Hi Heppoko 😃.
Yes, the number of saké you have stacked will remain in your personal history 😌I enjoyed eating freshly picked saké with tempura right away 🥹 and of course, it was also delicious when I ate it with a side dish 😋.
Hi, ma-ki- 😀
Yes, the time has come! The time has come 🤗It's one of those bottles that I'm happy to get out that makes me think it's as good as ever 😋 every year 😙ma-ki - enjoy 👋
Jay & Nobby, good morning 😃I actually had my first taste of Kame no Kai the other day, the spring sake one, and it was shockingly good 😍Semi Shigure, which is hard to come across, but if it's getting such rave reviews, I had to have it 😍❣️
Hi Jay & Nobby 😃I read your review and I really wanted one, so I went to the liquor store and got one without a hitch...................I'm looking forward to the turtle sea since Malick's 😊I hope it will suit my kids tongue too.
Good morning, Wakata 😃.
Our first Kame no Umi was Pink Label and Semi Shigure 😌 They were both delicious with different tastes 😋 Please do seek Semi Shigure as well 🤗.
Mr. Jay & Mrs. Nobby
Good morning...
I really don't see Turtle Sea around me... I read a repo that it has a good sour taste and as a sour lover, I'm very intrigued 🤤...
I'll have to look for a special store 😅...
Good evening, Jay & Nobby 🦉.
4 years in a row😳This must be quite a favorite = delicious 😻I've only had Hosoyuki, so I'll have to have this one sometime!
I saw Taranoki in Shinshu, but no buds yet 💦 Looks delicious and nice!
Hi Pon 😃
Yes, I'm so glad to hear that you like them! It's really my favorite 😅 by ‼️J&N standards, but it's really good 😅 😋 Cod sprouts are delicious, but expensive 🥲.
