Winner of the Gold Medal at the Wineglass Sake Awards 2021
Slightly ginjo aroma
Slightly sweet and refreshing, with a nice smooth finish.
Not very distinctive.
But you can keep drinking it, or rather, you tend to drink it one after another.
My favorite 3.5
I will drink it again
Yeast: Kyokai 1801
Rice polishing ratio 55
Sake degree -2.0
Acidity 1.4
Yeast 1801, 100% Wakamizu (raw material rice), light, slightly sweet. It has a unique aroma, like the rice is still wet with rice husks, or like an old house. It is refreshing and very easy to drink. Delicious. Good rating ⭐4.3
It is made by Nakano Shuzo in Handa City, and there is no Handa-go name on the bottle. I drank it for the first time and didn't find much distinctive about it except for the impression that it was sweet.
Elegant on the nose. Quite gentle, but with unmistakable aromas of pear and strawberry. There is an acidity and fruitiness that reminds me of champagne. Perhaps some melon, and a hint of rice flour as well.
Similar to the nose, it is soft and gentle on the palate. Neither dry nor sweet, but it does not linger, finishing with decent umami and cereal flavours, and a slight bitterness that is not unpleasant.
Overall, very good, but perhaps a little timid. I love the nose.
3.75/5
It's more refreshing than the Saika I had just a few minutes ago (I'm so comfortably drunk that it doesn't look any different from the Saika in the photo, sorry). It goes well with salted squid.