Junmai Ginjo🍶.
A gift from a colleague 🙏 He said he likes this brewery and visits several times a year.
It is pleasantly sweet and sour. A little bit of a schwarziness. Dry aftertaste. On the rocks 🧊 increases the spiciness, but it is easy to drink. Has a heavy back. Heating up ♨️ increases both sweetness and spiciness. Good for simmered flounder. My wife says it doesn't feel sweet on the tongue, but sweet on the upper jaw 😅 nice acidity is pleasant. It is also good with Shiho bamboo from Kochi 🎋 which is rare in autumn 👍Thanks for the treat 🙏.
A gift from a colleague @ home drinking 20241119
Tonoike Shuzo Brewery
Tsanbana Junmai Daiginjo Yumesasara
This brewery is located in Mashiko Town, Tochigi Prefecture.
The rice is polished to 45% Yumesasara grown in Tochigi Prefecture.
Fresh and fruity aroma, soft and full rice flavor, and a hint of acidity.
full-bodied rice flavor, and a hint of acidity.
and a subtle acidity.
and a gentle aftertaste.
#Nihon-shu
It has an apple-like flavor and softness!
The sweetness and acidity are just right, and it is easy to drink, with no unpleasant tang!
It conveys the sweetness of rice while expressing sake-like characteristics, which is good!
I invited my wife, who is not a drinker, to go to Mashiko to have soft serve ice cream with sakekasu (sake lees).
After stopping at a roadside station and looking at Mashiko pottery, we finally went to our main destination, Sonoike Sake Brewery, where we were allowed to taste the sake lees soft serve ice cream and bought two coins to compare.
The aroma was apple, very refreshing, like a white wine, though I don't know anything about wine.
I didn't really like it, so I just bought sakekasu and went home.
Since I went to visit Tochigi Prefecture, I went to a sake brewery in that prefecture, which is becoming a regular part of my recent trips.
This time we visited Sotaike Sake Brewery, which we could visit on our way to Ashikaga Flower Park.
We bought a bottle of Junmai-shu Nama Nigorozake and a bottle of Dobrok. After returning home, I immediately enjoy the Junmai-shu Nigorizake. It has a cute package, but it's not sweet at all and has a subtle, interestingly shwashy taste. Because it is not sweet, it surprisingly does not interfere with the meal.
My wife says it tastes like a highball.
Hello, ComCom 😃.
Welcome to Tochigi and to Sotoike 🤗
Mr. Tsanbana! It's a great food sake 😋.
You can't buy it at the brewery, but 🥲Mou san is also very good, please try it next time 👋.
Jay & Nobby.
Thank you for your comment.
I just recently got into sake and every time I drink different kinds I am amazed at the difference in taste.
I've heard that Nozomu is very tasty too. I'll give it a try when I come across it 😆✨.
Purchased after tasting it at a sake brewery in Mashiko. When I drank it in a boar cup at the brewery, it seemed hard and dry, but when I drank it in a wine glass, it was quite juicy. Delicious.
