After walking around Suwa Gokura, I bought this one for drinking in my room. It has a heavy, robust flavor with a hint of sourness. Since it is Children's Day, I paired it with Kashiwa Mochi. The freshness of the oak leaves enhances the flavor of nigori sake.
Nagano, Suwa City. Reijin Sake Brewery Co.
Reijin Junmai Sake Mellow
I bought this sake at a tasting event at Hankyu, although it was not at the Nagano Sake event.
It is served cold.
When poured into a glass, the yellowish color is clearly recognizable.
The top aroma is slightly matured.
I read on the Internet that it is aged for about half a year.
From the slightly viscous mouthfeel, the rice flavor is immediately felt on the tongue as it flows into the mouth. It is a richly concentrated and matured flavor, and its synergy with the sweetness makes it swell up firmly.
There is a slight aroma of maturity in the nose, but the bitterness and pungency are mild and rounded by the maturity.
It is exactly my image of a mellow sake.
I kept it at room temperature for about 5 months because it was fire-aged, but there was no unpleasant twinge at all.
I was allowed to taste many others, but this one was exceptional and my favorite.
Ingredients: Rice (Nagano Prefecture), Rice malted rice (Nagano Prefecture)
Rice polishing ratio: 65
Alcohol content: 15%.
Good evening, Nemuchi 😃.
I was surprised that you often come to department stores but not to traveling SAKE 😳I have the impression that the people at the brewery here are quite salty 😅.
Good evening, bouken🌛I see you come to the department store often😊I guess the traveling SAKE is a staffing issue or something 🤔Perhaps I wasn't from the brewery when I bought it, so I didn't have the image of a salty person 😅.
This is also a tasting only. After tasting two kinds of sake, we were at the end of our tasting time. We visited Honkin only. Masumi and Maihime were packed in a cool bag to take home. Still, it's a great place. Suwa is a wonderful place.
Sweetness with a banana-like fruity feel trompe l'oeil.
The alcohol and acidity make it not too bitter.
It is a strong sake with a high alcohol content, so we enjoyed it with chicken breast sauteed in butter shoyu and carbonated water. It is a very drinkable sake.
Reijin Shuzo
Reijin Junmai Daiginjo Light Nigori
This brewery is located in Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture.
It is a limited edition spring sake.
It is made from 49% polished "Yamadanishiki" from Hyogo Prefecture.
Gentle fruity aroma, soft rice
soft rice flavor. Fresh and light taste.
#Japanese Sake
Reijin Shuzo
Reijin Junmai Ginjo-shu Autumn Agari
This brewery is located in Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture.
It has a fruity aroma and elegant taste.
The taste is well-balanced with a fruity aroma and elegant acidity.
#Nihon-shu
Limited edition by Suwa no Reijin.
Smells like amazake (sweet sake).
Taste of amazake and strong alcohol.
There is a lingering lactic acidity.
It is easy to drink, but the strong alcohol taste will make you drunk soon. We enjoyed it with Korean-style sweet and spicy lotus root kinpira.
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f i r s t a n d f o r m a t i o n s
Reijin
Kitasenju
Tokusen
Dry Ginjo-shu
History and water brewery Reijin
Polishing ratio 59
room temperature, lukewarm or slightly chilled
Reijin Shuzo
Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture
Reijin Shuzo Junmai Ginjyo Genjyo 720ml
Rice polishing ratio: 59
Alcohol content: 17%.
We bought this Aki-agari when we visited the five Suwa breweries in November.
Yesterday it was snowing and it was ❄️ cold, so we had it warmed up.
My wife said she didn't like it when it was cold because it was too much like sake.
It tastes better when heated up.
Happy New Year! I am the leader of the "Zukudase! I am the leader of the "Sake of Shinshu" group! We will continue to love Nagano sake in the New Year and look forward to serving you in the New Year. The first sake of the new year is Suwa's Reijin Junmai Ginjo! I made it with Kikkoman's Uchi-no-Gohan Fluffy Chicken with Spiced Negi-Dare as a snack.
Opened December 3, 2023
Purchased at the brewery
Mmmm. Rich mellow ^ ^ Umami condensed ❗️
Perfect balance of sweet and sour 😉.
I had it with furofuki daikon (Japanese radish) 🥕.
With a little sweet dengaku miso and daikon radish with soup stock ^ ^.
I wonder if it would go well with pickles too ☺️
Hatsu Shibori Junmai Ginjo Nama Shu
Raw material rice Nagano rice
Polishing ratio 59
The second brewery on our tour of the five Suwa sake breweries was Reijin. We could have chosen beer for the tasting, but since we were there, we decided to try four kinds of sake.
We had the junmai and junmai ginjo from the first shibori, both of which were fresh, wild, and energetic.
In that sense, they are sakes that can only be drunk now.
The autumn-aged sake is the most striking. It has become completely calm and round.
Good morning, @Mizuhashi. Looks like you are having fun with all the new sake, and the five breweries seem to be ready to go around, but that's fun too 🤭.
Beautiful golden color and apple aroma
Glossy, full-bodied sweet and savory flavor
Transparent murmuring
Slight bitterness and good sharpness of alcohol
Prematurely in November
The only new sake we encountered after visiting 5 breweries in the area
Modest, but with a rough new sake character.
It is very soft, perhaps because it is made from the first fermentation.
You may be starting to fall in love with Suwa!
