This is silver Hokushin style! Yamada Nishiki!
It has a great sense of balance as is typical of Yamada-Nishiki, but it is very tasty with a gorgeous and delicious taste (≧▽≦)
It is better to enjoy it by itself without any dishes. But it is also great with stir-fried chicken with green onion and maitake mushrooms, and bonito sashimi!
It was a small bottle of 300ml, so it was instant kill...( ≧Д≦)
Junmai Daiginjo Nama Sake Yamadanishiki
Alcohol content: 16%.
Polishing ratio: 39
Bright red Hokushinryu (≧▽≦) I bought it after a free tasting at a sake brewery, but it was an impulse buy, almost like buying a jacket (lol).
(First of all, I was surprised that it was a free tasting!)
When I first sipped it, I thought it was a fruity apple sake, but it's a great food sake with umami and complex bitterness! It's gone in a hurry! (I don't have the vocabulary to describe it...)
With fried eringi mushrooms and green peppers, bonito sashimi, and takikomi-gohan with mushrooms!
Sanada Family Junmai Ginjo
Rice polishing ratio: 59
Alcohol content: 16%.
Miyamanishiki from Nagano Prefecture ✖️prepared with wine yeast Sour green apple-like fruit flavor. The label says it is easy to pair with food, but it seems to be a good choice for pairing. Serve with white dressed persimmon, apple and celery salad, etc.
Personal Rating
★★★☆☆☆
Quite fruity, as it is brewed with wine yeast ✨.
As the description says, it is indeed a hybrid sake 🍶.
It's a nice change of pace!
Rating Criteria
★★★★★ Favorite
Hall of Fame
★★★★☆ Delicious!
I would recommend it to anyone.
Delicious.
Not to everyone's taste
Not so good.
I will try it again to confirm.
☆☆☆☆ It doesn't suit me...
I don't think I will drink it again
This sake brewery seems to mature their sake in their own brewery until it is at its best before shipping, and this Hokushinryu is one of the rarer ones, being served as a raw sake before aging. It has a gorgeous aroma that spreads on the palate, and its sharpness makes it ideal as a mid-meal sake.
Rice polishing ratio 59
Alcohol content 16%.
The smoothness on the palate and the mellowness of the taste surprised us.
The sweetness of the rice is of course present, and the umami flavor is concentrated.
I don't think this is a sake for beginners, but for those who love sake, I highly recommend it.
The pop-up sign at the sake shop said it was a "beautiful sake," and after drinking it, I was convinced.
Nagano's Local Sake Comparison in front of Matsumoto Station! Unfortunately, the FURIN KAZAN that we originally planned to visit was temporarily closed, so we went to Manrai. We started with the Hokushin style Matsubaya special junmai sake from Hokushin. A refreshing sake with no cloying flavors!