I went to Ogawa for udon today and had yakitori in Chichibu on the way home....delicious snacks 😋.......Miyamanishiki sweet and bitter to sharp! This is a traditional sake🍶 so you may not like it. As a food sake 🍶 it is ⭕️
I was allowed to taste it at the store attached to the brewery. It is easy to drink even though it has 18% alcohol! And since the season was from winter, I think it has a rounder taste.
It was served cold at a bar with an all-you-can-drink sake bar. It was my first time in Kanagawa, so I ordered it ignoring the other members around me.
I paired it with a meat dish, but I could taste the deliciousness of the rice and it was a blissful moment. It is the type of sake that I would like to drink with my everyday evening drinks and keep in the refrigerator.
For the first time, I met a sake from Kanagawa that I thought was delicious!
It has a delicious LaFrance-type aged sweetness and just a hint of juiciness🍐☺️
The owner told me a story about the brewer, Ryo-san, a graduate of Tokyo University of Agriculture, who seems to be very attached to his sake (yeast from Kawazu-zakura - he even wrote in his elementary school graduation book that he was going to become a sake brewer).
The label for the annual New Year's sake had a portrait of the brewer on it, and when I looked it up, it did indeed look very much like him lol.
Sake of the Day
Matsumidori
Junmai Shiboritate Nama-zake
Rice:100% Miyamanishiki produced in Nagano Prefecture
Rice polishing ratio: 55
Alcohol content: 17-18%.
Tokyo Souvenir Sake No.5
I actually bought 6 bottles but this is the last one 🍶.
The Kidoizumi Afs I bought at Ikebuya is going to be sold out, so I'm keeping it as a collection 😁.
Matsu Midori, which was in the Sake Shop of the Year 2024.
I bought it at Isetan in Shinjuku.
Cold sake
Mild aroma
Gaseous when opened.
The taste is calm and easy to drink.
It has a gentle yet strong image without the boldness characteristic of the original sake.