After GW... 🥲...
Work is busy... 😣...
It's Friday... 😏😣...
It's raining... 🙄...
Well, of course I'm going.
To have a drink....
Go to the usual place ❗️❗️
Today, we had this regular sake.
Made with 100% Niigata rice!
Now, take a sip...dry!
But with a refreshing taste of rice.
Delicious!
The appetizers!
It goes well with kinpira gobo (burdock root)!
The texture of the burdock root
Sake is so good!
Oh, it's so relaxing!
On this day, I watched the third round of the Niigata Prefecture high school baseball spring tournament at Nagaoka's Yukuyama Ballpark, and then returned to Saitama on the Shinkansen bullet train from Nagaoka Station.
On the dining table, there was a variety of Niigata wild vegetables such as kinome (sprouts of trees) and udo (udo), which my wife and son had brought back from the countryside earlier and cooked for us, as well as nokpe (a type of rice cooked with soy sauce) and red rice flavored with soy sauce.
We drank a glass of Yoshinogawa, Nagaoka's sake.
This superb Yoshinogawa Ginjo, 300ml bottle,
It is a very good, light and refreshing Niigata ginjo sake.
One of the set of 30 Niigata sake cups for the 20th anniversary of the Sake Festival.
The third in a series of cups of sake, and the most sake-like. Slightly sweet and a little sticky. A little sweet and a little sticky. It shows its full potential when paired with amaebi senmochi (sweet shrimp crackers). 70° warmed ♨️ The flavors come together. It has a nice clean taste. Maybe the best of the year for heated sake. My wife says there is no chasing sweetness.
Purchased online from Sake Kadoya @ Murakami 20241102