Year-end party of the Sakai-kai of the Kansai Branch of SAKEWA 🎉.
Under Umaisan's order, Lutemi-mama, Wakata and his wife, and I gathered.
The place was Kurami, a famous restaurant in Sakai.
Delicious food as always. This was the 2,000 yen per person course (4th picture).
We started with a toast of Tobiroki's Kasumi sake, Romain.
We spent about 3 hours in a blink of an eye, talking about our recent situation and personal stories that we were hearing for the first time.
It was a lot of fun 😊.
One of the most memorable bottles was this one.
Mature Kuranomori. Brewing year: 2000.
24 years ago.
How old were you guys back then? I was 😁.
I had it hot.
It is not as peculiar as I expected and tastes soft with a caramelized taste. The slightly pointing stimulation characteristic of aged sake was also pleasant and flowed down my throat.
Drunken sake with good friends.
Bliss at its finest.
A wonderful year-end party that I could not have imagined a few years ago.
We are grateful for the sake connection.
Good evening, Maru-san 🦉.
Nice Sakai-kai! I can see you had a great time 😊But then again, it's hard to believe that the food was only 2000 yen 😳and that you can drink alcohol from 24 years ago 😻
I thought 2000 was a recent date 🤣.
Good morning, Maru-san and Kansai Sakai-kai members 😀
You guys are really good friends and you know the best places to eat 😀.
I can see you all enjoying your drinking sessions 😀.
Good evening, Maru-brother. If you have a year-end party at Kurami, please invite me 😭I'm totally jealous 🔥I'll do my best to attend the New Year's party or something like that 😆.
Hi Maru 😃
Sakai-kai! Nice 🤗I think a small group of people can have a lot of deep conversations 😄.
24 years ago was exactly the year of the birth of my Tochigi love 🥰, when I moved from Nagano to Utsunomiya after changing jobs at my current company 😌.
Hi Jay & Nobby 😊.
It was an intense and enjoyable spree 😁.
What a surprise that 2000 was the first year of Tochigi Ai🥰!
No wonder the sake was so good in such a memorable year 😋!
It has a surprisingly mild taste. It has a sharpness to it that makes it a regular evening drink 🩵The Ozawa Sake Brewery is relatively close by, so I would like to visit them someday 🍶.
side dish: ikaigani (squid and sea urchin)
Mature sake Kuramori that I drank at the Ozawa Sake Brewery's sake tasting place. I remember being impressed by the taste, but do not remember the flavor. I drank 1,2,3,4,6,11.
The best Phoenix was good, but the cosiness of Soten was shocking.
The branding on the bench at Sawai station is also nice.
Sawanoi's Honjozo Nama Nama Sake directly from the tank. It is a clear honjozo with a little melon-like sweetness and acidity. It was easy to drink. I was not expecting my wife to drink it so easily.
Heated sake drunk at Ozawa Sake Brewery. Specs are unknown. I guess it's a regular big dry sake. I like the Daruma bottle. The motsu-ni is also delicious.
I got my wish and visited Ozawa Sake Brewery in Okutama, where I purchased a bottle of Kameguchi Junmai Sake.
This time it was junmai, but it is said to change from time to time.
The aroma is subdued. The flavor is full of umami, with a sweetness of cucumber, and it is a fine quality junmai sake with a clean and crisp taste. When it is exposed to air for a while and the flavor and aroma open up, it is extremely tasty.
Memorandum: 33rd
At the first restaurant of the new year.
After Kikuyu, I had this one.
It was another good sake with a fruity taste like a daiginjo.
It was a good sake.
With grilled mackerel.
Degree of alcohol content: 15%, Polishing ratio: 50%.
100% Yamadanishiki
Sake level: -1, Acidity: 1.5
Kura Master 2021 Platinum Award
Opened December 8, 2024
Purchased after tasting at the brewery
Shuwashuwa ^ ^.
Claims to be dry but has a firm top sweetness 😁.
A bit like candy ^ ^.
Since it's nigori, enjoy it separately as supernatant and cloudy ☺️
Nigori has a mellow complex flavor of sake lees, good depth ^ ^.
You should drink it after shaking it properly.