I drank Choseomai at KITTE the other day, but this is my first time at Notoji.
I didn't know there was a variety of rice called Chosei Mai😅
I thought it was a brand name like Niida rice.
I heard that the rice grown in the Chousei area of Chiba is also called Chousei rice, which is a bit confusing 🙄.
It has a golden color. Or maybe a little light brown😅.
Smells like Shaoxing wine.
It smells like aged sake, but it tastes beautiful and a little sweet.
Better than the Chousei Mai I had the other day 😋.
It's a bit of a mystery how it's aged so well even though it doesn't say it's an aged sake on the official website or on the liquor store's website 🤔.
This is another sake from the Junmai Ginjo trial set. This was the most unique sake we drank that day. The aroma and flavor of aging are impressive.
Alcohol content: 18%.
Sake meter rating: +4.5
Acidity: 1.8
Rice polishing ratio: 50
I received this sake on January 1 because I participated in a crowdfunding campaign for a sake brewery that was affected by the disaster, and I hope for the recovery of the area.
It was sent to us through crowdfunding.
The sake was in the warehouse at the time of the earthquake and they managed to escape.
I hope it will be restored.
Rice polishing ratio: 65
Alcohol content: 14
We received this as a souvenir.
Although the aroma is modest, it has a unique taste with a mixture of umami and bitterness, and after a few seconds, the aroma is gone and the impression is clean and crisp.
It is bitter if you drink it by itself, but if you drink it with a strong-flavored snack, I think you can enjoy it with its sharpness and a clean, crisp taste.
Sake!
It has a rice smell that can only be found in nama sake, and the mouthfeel is hard, perhaps due to the difference in water. There is a sharpness, but the aroma of the original sake remains, but there is no sweetness, and there is acidity.