The fourth drink was Takezuru from Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture.
This one was as yellow as beer.
This one was also served warm.
It has a strong rice flavor and is very peculiar.
It also had a slight whisky-like flavor, perhaps due to its name.
It was delicious!
For the second glass, the proprietress followed up with a heated sake that had impressed her the first time she drank it, and went with the Taketsuru. It was originally a sake brewer as well as a whiskey. It is brown. But it is delicious. It is soft and mild, with a perfect balance of umami, acidity, and various other flavors. It is addictive.
Spent the New Year's holidays at my parents' house in Hiroshima 😊.
My first drink of the year was a Takekutsuru 🍶.
The cool label, which is not like Taketsuru, and the flat rice polishing, which I had never heard of before, raised my expectations, but it had a peculiar taste that might be quite different for different tastes.
The technique, rice, and sake derived from flattened rice polishing are collectively called "shingin".
Many people think of whisky when they think of Taketsuru. I am one of them.
The sake I drank that day was junmai sake. It is not as glamorous as today's sake, but it is a little dry and has the taste of traditional sake.
Thank you for the sake.
A friend of mine from Hiroshima came back home and gave this to me as a gift.
It's been a long time since I've had a Chiketsuru.
It is said to be flat polished rice!
It was served cold.
The aroma is heavy but round, which is characteristic of Chiketsuru's sake.
It is mature yet sharp, with a twang but also a gentle side.
It is not very wide but has a lot of depth.
When it is warmed up, the width remains the same but the depth increases.
The length of the flavor is short, but the aftertaste is long after swallowing.
The description says it is slightly dry, but I didn't feel it was that dry 🤨.
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