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Masamune hunters go today🍶.
Today we visited the Tottori & Okayama Antenna Shops, a place of relaxation for Masamune hunters 📡. As soon as I arrived there, I started looking for Masamune and found it 🤩.
It's sake 🍶.
It has a crisp, Hakka-like aroma.
It is also very refreshing on the throat.
The umami of the rice is subdued, and then there is a subdued sweetness and an equally subdued acidity. Overall, it has a light and simple taste 😙.
It is probably best suited as a food sake 🍶.
The Hakka flavor, combined with the oiliness of the food, seems to help the oil from the food to be washed away quickly 😁.
Nice Masamune👍
Good evening Hiro 🌇.
It's hard to find people who drink Sanko and I found it and posted it 🥹It is often given to me by my friends in Okayama, Japan 🥹It looks different from my impression when I drank it 2 years ago, but it was delicious warmed up 😋🍶.
Good morning, Hiro 😀
It's amazing that you can hunt so many Masamune 🤣!
I'd love to know how many sake brands have Masamune attached to them in Japan 😇.
Hi ellie 😃
I see you like heated sake ❗️ I didn't try heated sake because it was good enough to drink cold sake 😅I'll try heated sake if I get a chance to drink it again 😆.
Hi Yasbay 😃.
Thank you very much 🙇♂️
I'm making a list of Masamune because I was wondering how many types there are, but some of them are not available right now 😅I'll do my best to scrutinize the list to master Masamune 💪.
Hi, Matsuchiyo 😃
I saw a Sanko Masamune on sale with a great high quality Junmai Ginjo and Daiginjo 😄.
It was my first Sanko Masamune and it was nice Sanko Masamune 😁.
The 800 check-in is the H27BY (2015 brewing year) Sanko Masamune from which Toji Takagaki retired 😆.
We were lucky to get it 😊.
This is the only sake from Mr. Takagaki but we are holding Takagaki festival 😅🍶.
When opened in the fridge, it smells slightly like a soy sauce warehouse (there was a soy sauce warehouse in my neighborhood when I was a kid) or Shaoxing sake.
It's a dry and light sake when cold.
Sanko is still a warmed sake, so I'd recommend heating it up 🍶.
The top aroma is the aromatic aroma of a freshly heated sake.
When heated, it does not have a matured aroma.
In the mouth, you first feel sharp acidity and spiciness.
The acidity is not as strong as that of Sanko Tenpyo's Namahashi or Yamahai, but it is quite good.
There is a slight sweetness and a beautiful umami that does not make you feel the rice polishing ratio of 72%.
This is a perfect food sake 🍶😊.
I don't know if this is the original taste since it is an old sake, but it was deeply delicious 😌.
After retiring, he returned to farm near his hometown, but unfortunately, he died in a field accident last year 🥲.
I learned of his death when I saw a relative of his on Instagram late last May with a picture of H27BY "Katsumasa" to inform me of his passing.
A toast to Mr. Katsumasa Takagaki 😌🍶.
The fourth picture is a sake from the brewery where Mr. Takagaki worked in the past.
Good evening, Mr. Matsuchiyo♪
㊗️800 check in✅
Congratulations 🥳🎉This is an impressive lineup ❣️ and I look forward to your usual reviews 🥹.
Please keep up the good work Chika 🙇♂️
Congratulations on your 800 check-ins 🎉🎊Congratulations on finding a rare sake 😳The Sake no Wa calendar is amazing, and most of all, your inquisitiveness is amazing 😆 I'll keep referring to it 🫶.
Thanks Muro 😉🍶.
Muro, you are the one with the lineup full of hard-to-find sake that makes one wonder if there's a backroom humping party for the top customers 😁.
I'm not here to babysit you chika 🤣🤣🤣!
Thank you Nemuchi 😂🫶.
Well, there is no competition compared to the new fat 😅.
I try to keep my calendar to one or two posts a day so I don't get tired 🤗.
Maybe that's too much lol.
Good evening, Matsuchiyo-san ^_^
Congratulations on your 800th check-in 🎉!
I have not drank much sake from Okayama Prefecture, and I did not know about this one 💦.
Congratulations on your 800 check-ins, Matsuchiyo! ㊗️ Collecting sake that the toji was a member of is something you have to be a very core fan to do 😳.
Congratulations to Matsuchiyo-san on your 800CI🎊㊗️
I'm not very well versed in sake, but your reviews always sound delicious, so I'm reading them while thinking about ‼️ if I come across them someday 🥳.
Let's have a good time drinking👍
Good evening, Matsuchiyo-san.
Congratulations on your 800 check-in 🎉.
It's a very special sake by a specific toji, and a very special milestone sake while thinking of him ✨.
Congratulations on your 800 check-in✅, Matsuchiyo! ㊗️🎉🎉🎉
I wonder if there is something about the sake brewed by a particular master brewer that transcends the brand name.
I'm learning a lot about that kind of enjoyment 🥹.
Good evening, Matsuchiyo 😃.
Congratulations on your 800 check-in ㊗️㊗️㊗️㊗️㊗️㊗️㊗️㊗️ with the start of the Takagaki-san festival 🎉.
It's great to see you preparing for this 😳 drinking with sensibility 😅 an unattainable territory for us 🥹.
Thank you Manachy 🥳.
I'm a maniac 😂.
I'm glad I bought it, especially the Yamahai from Yoshimizu, which I've never had before, but it's really good 🍶✨️
Thank you, Kotaro!
No problem, there are still a lot of sake that I don't know about either 🍶.
I'm sure there are some sake that probably won't be to your liking, but if you see one, please give it a try 😂.
Congratulations on reaching 800 check-ins, Matsuchiyo 🎉!
You've been lucky enough to find and get a bottle of sake that's been stored for almost 10 years, and it's one that's too good for a commemorative check-in ✨.
The toji guess is helpful 😁.
Thank you Maru 😁🫶.
I'm looking for a sake that's good for my taste.
I'm just looking for a good sake that I like so I'm just drinking from one end of the spectrum 😂.
Thank you, Hiro 🤗
Takagaki Touji's sake is characterized by its acidity, and all three breweries have inherited this characteristic.
It's a completely different sake from modern sake, but if you have a chance, please try it 😉.
Thank you Jive 😚.
I looked for it after I found out Mr. Takagaki passed away and I'm glad I was able to buy it 🥹.
There are quite a few liquor stores that also promote Touji.
Masaaki Sapporo-san, Akemayo omedetou 🎍.
It is basically a dry sake with a slight matured aroma when it is cooled down.
It doesn't have such a strong personality 🤔.
Thank you for your kind attention 🙇🙇.
Matsuchiyo-san, I know I'm late, but congratulations on your 800 check-ins 🎉🎊
Mr. Takagaki was also a member of Okuharima 😳
It's great that you can find the sake from those days after he passed away 🥰.
Thank you bouken 😸.
Yes, that's right. He was the toji when Okuharima started up.
I think there are still some sake for a few enthusiasts if you look for them 😅.
By the way, has the toji changed?
Mr. Osamu Iye, who replaced Mr. Toji Yamauchi who moved to Miyakojin and Okuharima, has retired and no one has been found to replace him...
I can't write any more here 🤐.
Congratulations on your 800 check-ins 🎉🎊, Matsuchiyo-san!
How did you manage to collect this many check-ins 😳It seems to be a popular place 💦I'm enjoying reading your various information😊.
Thank you very much, Pon 🙆.
Thanks to you, I'm running out of space in my fridge😅.
I think it would be more fun to hear bouken's gossip about a certain liquor store 🤭.
Bicchu tasted a sake from Jindai.
Sanko Masamune, when I drank the junmai sake before, seemed quite mellow, but the junmai ginjo was just the right density, probably due to the difference in rice polishing ratio.
It is also a very tasty sake.
It has a sweet aroma and taste and is easy to drink without being alcoholic. The spiciness remains at the end and is refreshing.
We found it in the local products section of a supermarket we stopped by in Niimi City, Okayama Prefecture. It is a brewing town, and there were a lot of sake and soy sauce on display, so I bought some soy sauce as well.
I bought this when I was touring in Niimi, Okayama.
Then,
First without pairing,
The spiciness is also a bittersweet aftertaste,
Like rain after cloudy after sunny?
I'm not sure.
Well, I'm sure it's a good sake for pairing.
I'm sure it's a good sake that you don't hesitate to pair it with.
I paired it with leftovers on the first day.
It's a little more bitter, but good.
And the beer,
Kirin's Spring Valley
Summer Ale.
It has the most citrusy taste of all the Spring Valley beers.