New Year's Eve
Snowman was opened just in time for my son's return home.
It's a little more schwashy than I thought it would be 🫧.
Dry rice cider 🌾.
Of course, you can drink it in one sitting.
Yummy!
It has a slight gasiness and a sourness that may be derived from the sake yeast, but it is silky and round with a hint of nigori (bitterness), and is very tasty with umami and a hint of sweetness.
Year-end hors d'oeuvres✨
New Year's Eve came in the blink of an eye.
Thank you to my family and the many people who supported me this year 😌💖.
We spend New Year's Eve at my husband's parents' house every year😊.
This year, we all toasted together with our favorite Senkou snowmen ✨
This year we made 13 dishes 😋 for the record ✨
Fried chicken
Fried shrimp
Fried shrimp
Teriyaki yellowtail
Scotch Eggs
Herb-Grilled Chicken Thigh
Shrimp Mayo
Grilled squid with butter
Bacon wrapped with enoki mushroom
Kinpira (lotus root)
Spinach with sesame paste
Chikuwa cucumber
sweet potato and apple kinton (fried sweet potato and apple in sweetened soy sauce)
It takes a long time to make, but it only takes a moment to eat 😆.
Aroma of apple, plum extract, apple seeds and peel.
Smooth, strongly effervescent mouthfeel.
Sharp, strong acidity, no residual sugar. Heavy beyond imagination, with harsh minerality and bitterness, like a seed or Champagne.
Serve as an aperitif.
The first day after opening, the taste is mainly sour and bitter, but after the second day, it has a great sweetness and umami aroma that is typical of Senkou, and when mixed with the starch, a slight sweet sake flavor is added.
Finally, retro.
When you uncork it, you get a whiff of a gorgeous and fresh aroma that is similar to Modern 🥂✨. However, I can detect a little more depth and weight in the aromatic nuances than Modern. It's a good aroma with depth, somewhat reminiscent of ripe fruit. ‼️
Like the Modern, the clear acidity and sweetness are in harmony, but this one has a bigger volume of flavor in the mouth👍.
The intensity of umami seems to accentuate the characteristics of this retro.
The sweetness and richness of the rice can be felt gradually on the tongue, making it very drinkable.
Each of the three varieties was distinctive and to my liking, but I guess the one that was closer to my recent taste trends was the modern.
I finally had a chance to drink the Edo return, which I had been putting off for a year 😂.
If only I could open this year's Zero earlier...
Next up is the Classic.
When I uncorked the bottle, I felt a powerful fizzy feeling ‼️😳The bubbles that rise up like a carbonated beverage are amazing. This is the kind of liveliness that only a fresh sake can have 🥂✨. The aroma is a bit more subdued than the modern one, but it has a complex flavor derived from the nama yeast and a slight lactic acid nuance.
When opened, its bubbles may have stimulated the taste to tighten up and become sharper. You would have felt a powerful deliciousness, full of young energy👍.
When I drank it again later, after the bubbles were gone, it was much easier to drink 😊.
Compared to the Modern, I guess you could say that it has a stronger personality, and it has a thicker bone structure.
It was a sake that made me feel the character 😚.
I've been too busy to upload all of them yet, but here they are all at once at the end of the year...
We got this year's Zero without incident, so we opened three bottles of last year's Zero and compared them!
Let's start with Modern: ‼️
The aroma when you open the bottle is very clear and refreshing 🥂✨. The aroma is very clear and refreshing 🥂✨. It has a clear fruity aroma like fresh green apples and muscats. Even though it's last year's sake, it's amazing how lively and fresh the aroma is, as if it's freshly made. ‼️
In the mouth, the pleasant sharpness and lightness stand out. The balance of sweetness and acidity is very exquisite, and there is no unpleasant heaviness at all. It goes down your throat with ease👍.
I let it sit for a year, but it's amazing how well it retains its freshness. ‼️
It was by far the most refreshing of the three varieties and I liked the aftertaste very much 😊.
After opening the bottle, it tastes quite sour and bitter.
After a few days, the taste settles down, or rather, it becomes easier to drink.
It is a delicious taste that is hard to find.
This is the last drink of the year. Snowman.
Strong gas and pear-like aroma that comes through to the nose. It has no sweetness, and the acidity and umami come right away. It has a nice sharpness and will go well with dishes at the end of the year and at the beginning of the new year!
Domaine Sakura, 100% Yamadanishiki
Nama Sake
Alcohol content 13%.
When I opened the bottle, it almost gushed out. It has a yogurt-like sweetness in the mouth, with a shwashy feel. I'll definitely buy it again when I find it!
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