I went on a trip from Nagoya to Shiga to Fukui to Kanazawa over the February holidays 🚄.
In Fukui Prefecture, I was so HAPPY to have a toast with Jive-san, who I met at Sake-no-Wawa: ✌🏻
It was a very fun night and even more HAPPY that he sent me some sake from Fukui when I got back 😭✨.
Here's what we received first!
I also remember Jive-san drinking it!
First sip, impact like you're eating gari!!!!
(lack of vocabulary & expression)
But I really felt... gari... gari 😝 lol
It's such a good balance of sweetness & sourness & depth!
But it soon calmed down to a refreshing and mellow sweetness.
I love drinking at home because I can taste the impact of opening the bottle!
I have a lot of sake that I haven't been able to summarize due to hard work at the end of the year, so I'd like to keep writing about it. ✍🏻
Hi takeshon! I had a great time with Gyves and he even gave me a gari...........................................it was rude to call it a gari 😂 lol It was a great trip!
Good morning, chiaki!
Thank you for calling on us 😁.
It's great to get your review too 😊.
The impact and aftertaste is addictive, I would also describe it as [gari] 🤣.
Hi chiaki 😃
I also got to toast to you and Jive 😊Good Hokuriku trip 🥹The souvenir gari looks delicious 😆The taste of it will also add to your memories: ☺️
Also, please take your time to come back 👋
After the first drink of the year at "Harada Gentetsu", I went to my parents' house to open the annual sake bottle for a drink 🍶.
Snow Kirara ARA-SHIBORI.
Sake brewed in the fall is first squeezed and bottled as it is.
We compare the top clear and cloudy versions.
[Kamisumi]
The clear rice aroma, juicy flavor, and freshly squeezed aftertaste, and the strong bitterness that lingers at the end.
[Nigoromi]
Fresh rice aroma, rich and creamy mouthfeel, sweet freshly pressed aftertaste, and a slight bitterness at the end.
The top clear layer alone is not enough 🤔.
It's only when it gets cloudy that it really comes into its own 😆.
I drink this every new year, and after a year of drinking various sakes, I come back to this deliciousness again at the beginning of another year 😁.
The local cheese store [Happy Cheese], which was reflected in my last post, is open on New Year's Day, so I took out an assortment of 8 kinds of cheese to go with it.
The alcohol content is a bit high at 17%, so be careful not to drink too much💦.
Hi Jive 😃
A regular bottle to drink at my parents' house: ‼️
It's nice to have a local sake 🍶 to revisit your taste buds after a year around 🤗.
The various cheese🧀 entrées look delicious too 😋.
Good evening, Jay & Nobby 🌛.
For me, I feel that this sake drunk in the New Year is the best way to enjoy the new sake 😁.
Especially in the previous year, I was able to drink a lot of different sakes due to the progress of my drinking activities, so I felt differently 😋.
Good evening, Gyve-san 🌙
The one bottle I drink every year, I often drink it without any idea what it is 😊I see it was Harada's snack cheese 😍It looks like it would go well with it ❣️
Good morning, Pon-chan!
I think I've become more sensitive to the taste of sake, especially since I was invited to the Kansai Off-line Meeting the previous year and had the opportunity to drink various types of sake 😁They have a delicious conte cheese here 😋.
The first sip is quite spicy, so it hits you hard.
Slowly, the fruity taste came later in the mouth.
Since it is a cloudy sake, I enjoyed it with the top clear liquid at first.
Quite dry and fruity.
Next time I mixed the whole bottle and drank it, the dryness softened and the sweetness and spiciness became
The sweetness and dryness were exquisitely balanced without being overbearing.
The sweetness and spiciness were perfectly balanced without being overbearing,
I launched a new series the other day, but there are still some seasonal sakes coming up that I need to drink while they are still tasty, so I'll start with a sake that is not a "Tsuki" sake this time 🍶.
Snow Kirara Ara Shibori is brewed by a small sake brewery in Imajo, an old inn town deep in the snow in Fukui.
The other day, Kazuhiko Ota was on a TV show and said that he drank only the top clear part of muddy sake, so I practiced it myself!
The top clear part has a fresh sweet umami taste, followed by a clean, crisp, sweet aftertaste.
This is a taste that makes you feel a little immoral ✨.
Nigori-shu: The sense of alcohol increases at once, the umami is strong, and the sweetness is felt afterwards and it finishes.
The strength of the sake is reconfirmed after drinking the supernatant 👀.
When you get used to drinking it with a meal, you can easily drink it with the sweetness and deliciousness that gives the image of the supernatant without feeling the alcohol content of 18° ((😖)).
By the way, it is a tradition to drink this at New Year's in my family, and I have good memories of emptying a bottle with my father on New Year's morning alone 🎵.
Hi Gyve 😃
I like the contrast between the beautiful supernatant in the third photo and the nigori in the fourth one 🤗I can tell that the flavors must be very different 😊 It's amazing that two people can empty one square 😳.
Good evening!!!
Looks delicious 😁.
My mom is from Imajo and we used to go there when I was a kid 😁.
The soy sauce from Imajo looks delicious, I didn't know about the sake brewery 😰.
Good evening, Jay & Nobby 🌛.
It's the first time I drank it with the top-fermentation, but it seems to have a stronger fresh sweetness of the raw sake ✨In fact, I opened a bottle each day and night, 3 bottles in total on New Year's Day ((😖)), I drank more than I have in my life✨.
Good evening, Ao-chan!
I see Imajo is your roots 👀There are about 4 or 5 breweries still making sake along with miso, soy sauce and processed ume products 🍶If you see one, please give it a try 😄.
Good evening, Mr. Noodle Sake King 🌖.
I feel like there are some big sake breweries that represent Fukui like Kuroryu, Bon, Echizenmisaki, etc., but there are many small sake breweries left in Fukui that are consumed mostly locally like here 😄.
This sake is from Imajo, Minami-Echizen-cho, Fukui Prefecture.
One of a set of four bottles bought at the souvenir corner of Imajo Station during a return trip home for the holidays.
The sweetness is preceded by a crisp sweetness, which is gradually followed by spiciness.
The spiciness gradually builds up to the next saké.
How about if you warm it up?
The sweetness and spiciness become lighter, and the astringency deepens the flavor.
The flavor is well balanced.
After working 5 night shifts in a row, this is the first sake I have had in a while, and I wanted to drink something like this.
I wanted to drink something like this.
I would like to pay my respects to Massan, Ellie, and all the predecessors who were involved in the sake industry, and whose wisdom and passion paved the way for the rich drinking lifestyle that we modern drinkers enjoy today.