Shimosuwa Onsen collective purchase (3)
This is an apple liqueur from Yokobue-san of Suwa Gokura.
When I visited Yokobue-san's brewery before, I enjoyed their junmai sake plum liqueur but regretted recklessly not taking it home 🥲.
This time, I found Yokobue's apple liqueur at a liquor store in Shimosuwa, so of course I immediately decided to try it✨.
It's a lightly sweet apple liqueur ‼️, but if you get carried away and guzzle it, the aftertaste leans toward junmai sake 🤭.
I make shochu plum wine every year at home, but apparently junmai sake plum wine tends to go bad at home. It must be more difficult to make apple wine with such a low sweetness.
I'll second the modest taste: ❣️
Thanks for the treat 😋.
Recommended by the proprietress of a liquor store in Nagano, Japan
Fresh, crisp, cool and refreshing.
It was my first time to try it, but it was delicious.
I enjoyed the activated nigori sake from Suwa Gokura and Yokobue very much last year 🍶.
I'm glad I was able to buy a four-pack because I was only able to buy a 300ml bottle when I came here in August before 😄.
The aroma is definitely yogurt!
Slightly carbonated and pleasant on the tongue, with a gurgling sensation of ori.
The fresh taste on the tongue with a rich umami and a crisp dry aftertaste makes it worth repeating. ✨️
I was able to enjoy the wine at the Suwa brewery in Suwa.
I was so excited to see this product.
I was so happy to see this place.
I was so happy to see the beautiful scenery.
I am very happy to have been able to visit this place!
Ito Shuzo (Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture)
Yokobue Honjozo
15% alcohol by volume
Rice polishing ratio 65
This sake is classified as a so-called "normal sake".
It is spicy. It could have been heated up hot.
It could have been served hot with a stove or a kotatsu in the cold of winter.
I think this is the best solution.
Today's sake is a Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu Uguisu~Tsinguri from Yokobue in Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture❗️
The aroma is a refreshing junmai sweet aroma❗️After a sip, you get a dense texture on the tongue, followed by a subtle fruity ginjo aroma and astringency❗️❗️A good sake for a mealtime drink⭕️
Nagano Prefecture. Suwa City. Ito Sake Brewing Co.
Yokobue, closure, Honjozo Harajuku, super sweet -11
Purchased at the brewery during a tour of five Suwa breweries.
One of the 3 bottles I brought back from my trip (8/9).
There is still some sake left from the Bon...
It is served cold.
The color is a solid yellowish gold.
It has a mild aroma with little alcohol flavor.
The mouthfeel is smooth and smooth. The taste is not extremely sweet, but has an unctuous sweetness with a hint of sourness, and a clear astringent taste that gradually becomes more pronounced. It tastes sweet and astringent.
Although it is a honjozo sake, it does not have a strong alcohol taste, and the clear astringent aftertaste is not my favorite.
Ingredients: rice (domestic), rice malt (domestic), brewing alcohol
Rice polishing ratio: 65
