Immediately after opening the bottle, the refreshing citrus aroma gives the impression of a light sake, but if you take a sip with a light heart, Master Dry Sake's sermon will explode in your mouth! (Laughs)
The acidity that comes at you like a sizzle, the robust umami flavor, and yet the dry, crisp taste and aftertaste are somewhat similar to a rakugo storyteller who speaks in crisp Edo dialect.
As for the best dish to pair with it, I would recommend soba (buckwheat noodles), since he is a master of the dry taste.
After sipping the buckwheat noodle, I took a little sip of the dry sake.
1828 2024/6
Shoryu Horai Kimoto Junmai Omachi 70
Unrefined unpasteurized sake straight from the tank
Specially grown rice without pesticides and chemical fertilizers
Omachi 70% from Okayama Mame Farm
+4 17° 24/5 A+
Aikawa-cho, Kanagawa Oyataka Shuzo
1800 3960
This is the 11th bottle from this brewery since the Hourai days, including the Zanzou Hourai.
The taste of Shirokushiki left a strong impression on me, but the taste of the low alcohol type and other types of sake were very different from one brewery to another, so I chose a Shoryu Horai that I used to like (previously Yamada Nishiki, now Omachi).
The first sip had a slightly distinctive flavor with a hint of nama-zake.
The taste is firm and umakuchi, with a pleasant acidity.
It becomes more straightforward when heated, but it is also too smooth, so the acidity is more pronounced when it is cooled.
After the second day, the flavor has lost some of its character, and I enjoyed the different expressions by alternating between cold and warmed sake.
Shoryu Hourai is made with Omachi from Mame Farm. Hazy yellow-green in color with a muscat and melon-like aroma. Sweet and sour, fresh and slightly astringent. It also has a green flavor like mint. This is very delicious. It is good by itself or as a food sake.
Shoryu Hourai's Namaishime style warmed sake. Shoryu Hourai's sake is really good as a warmed sake. Well, basically, all the Junmai sake from Shoryu is good when it is warmed up...
We will enjoy it very warmed up. The aroma of the sake is enchanting. The color is a deep yellow. It's delicious. And it develops quickly. The peculiarity, deliciousness, acidity, and astringency are all fast. It makes me happy to see it go through so much.
The acidity is quite strong toward the latter half, and if you imagine the sweetness of Zanso Hourai, it is a completely different approach.
It also has a strong umami flavor as a base.
Lactic acidic aroma
Lactic acid aroma
Sour and astringent taste
Omachi from Okayama Prefecture
Rice polishing ratio: 49
Sake meter rating: +3
Alcohol content: 16%.
@Exchange meeting with breweries in Tokyo and the three prefectures
Omachi! I bought it in
And it is a sake yeast yeast!
It's a little too good to be true because of the dominant feeling of "nama yeast"?
It is only H30BY, so it has an old sake feel.
Polishing ratio 60
Alcohol 15%.
Production date: 2022.08