Unexpected gifts 🍶.
I don't often choose my own brands when I receive gifts, so my expectations are low, but my enjoyment is twice as high: ‼️
Now it's time to uncork the bottle 🍾!
It's exactly what it looks like! Light and dry ✨ with a clean finish
Finished in a day with a crisp finish ✨♨️
Overwhelming rice flavor from the first bite!
The shock of the rice flavor, which leaves no time to think about sweet or spicy, is just what you would expect from Uonuma, a rice-producing region, and I love it.
It has a heavy mouthfeel, as it is called "rich umakuchi," and has a robust flavor typical of 80% polished sake, which is not typical of Niigata sake.
When served cold, it has a slightly alcoholic aftertaste. When heated, the sweetness increases and the sharpness becomes more balanced.
Clear and colorless with brilliance, viscosity is strong (alc15).
The aroma is pleasant, with a slightly fruity aroma of sweetness and umami mixed together.
The first impression is clear and the umami flavor spreads, and the lingering aftertaste is sharp and tasty, making you want to drink it again.
100% Niigata rice, even the rice malt is produced in Niigata Prefecture! Of course, the water is also produced in Uonuma. This is a sake with a rich, full-bodied flavor that is produced and consumed locally. I think it is very cost-effective. It would be great if it were readily available in Tokyo.
Minamiuonuma City, Niigata Prefecture
My wife's grandmother gave us a bottle of Shirataki Sake Brewery's summer-only ultra-harsh Uonuma.
She bought it for me at the end of the summer, knowing my taste (I like super-harsh), and it had been kept cold in the back of the refrigerator for a long time.
We enjoyed it with grilled iwana and amago (mackerel) that we had purchased in Shiga Prefecture.
It was a perfect evening.
