On the first day, the taste was modern and classic, with a honey-like sweetness that asserted itself. The next day, the flavors are balanced and mixed together to create a delicious taste. For home drinking.
unadulterated
A refreshingly sweet, acidic, and dry taste. It is a wonder that it feels fresh even though it is fire-brewed. The sweetness is cut off by the strong aftertaste. The bitterness of the aftertaste is strong. Burnt taste. 87 points.
Sweetness: 2.7
Sourness:3.6
Dryness:3
Hinted aroma:2.2
Tonight, we decided to enjoy a clear sake once in a while, so we opened a bottle of this one.
Ibigawa Special Honjozo 2024BY ✨
Ibigawa is a brand of sake originally distributed in the prefecture by Sugihara Shuzo, famous for its Imi sake.
From the standing aroma, there is a chemical cementiness, a weak pineapple tropicality, and a refreshing herbal crispness. ☺️
The taste has lost some of the sweetness and flavor of the Imi brand.
It has a slightly aged, caramel-like richness and acidity, with a crisp, tight, aluzoe-like quality that I like a lot 😋😋😋😋.
I'll try it later as it looks even better heated up to increase its fullness 🙌
Ibigawa I found on a business trip to Gifu
Sugihara Sake Brewery's local sake from Imi (seems to be a small number, so I buy it when I find it, but alas, I never found Imi 😮💨)
The last time I bought Ibigawa it was a special honjozo (delicious), so this time I went for the special junmai sake.
Sweet, really delicious 😋😋.
Soft sweetness, not too sweet, refreshing
Feeling of rice sweetness
A dangerous one that goes slooooowly.
Slightly more sour than when I drank the honjozo before?
But I can't really tell the difference between it and the honjozo unless I compare them at the same time 🤔.
I'd like to try it next time when I have a chance!
A while ago, when I went on a business trip to Gifu, I suddenly stopped by a kind of product exhibition.
There, I found Ibigawa
Sugihara Sake Brewery's sake from Imi.
I don't often see Imi sake, but I wondered if they sell a lot of it.
But it seems to be a small brewery, so maybe there aren't that many on the market? I thought about it and bought some anyway (I still don't know if it's easy to buy or hard to buy).
One sip and...,
This feeling, delicious 😋!
I'm glad I bought it 🎉!
I'm sure it's the same for Imi too (maybe? I'm sure...?) I can feel the sweetness of the rice, but it's not too sweet, it's a beautiful sake!
Oh yeah, no sourness,
Is that why? Like you can feel the taste of rice?
But, this is a honjozo: al-soju? ..., does it taste that much like rice? A different taste? But rice?
Well, whatever, it tastes good.
Sake brewery tour with Seishun 18 Kip
Sugihara Sake Brewery in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture
Too bad we couldn't buy all the sake by reservation only.
Got the labels for the red seal book
