Choosing a jacket!
I see! So this is how Muscat is often represented here?
It's light! Fruity! Slightly spicy or refreshing or spicy, it seems to be suitable for everyone!
There is also a slight sweetness! But it's refreshing at the end!
Niigata Prefecture. Nagaoka City. Koshi Meibun K.K.
Koshinotsuru Bessen Normal Sake
Purchased at the Sake Expo at the Kintetsu Main Store in Abeno Harukas.
I kept it in the refrigerator and drank it cold.
The color is clear with a slight yellow tinge.
The nose has a strong alcoholic and acidic aroma, with a hint of apple.
Not much umami and little sweetness. The bitterness comes out at the end.
The flavor profile is blurred when the sake is cold, so it should be brought to room temperature before drinking.
When the sake is brought to room temperature, it has a mild umami, a little sourness, a tangy alcohol taste, and a sharp aftertaste. There is not much bitterness.
It is best to drink it at room temperature. This regular sake is delicious.
Ingredients: rice (domestic), rice malt (domestic), brewers' alcohol
Alcohol content: 15%.
The aroma is of iso-type fresh apple.
The taste is fruity and soft, as only a ginjo can be. Refreshingly fruity. The taste has a certain density. It is more delicious than expected.
Personally, I prefer a ginjo-style sake that is as light as this.
Since it is a Tochio sake, we served it with Tochio fried tofu.
Please try it.
Niigata Prefecture. Nagaoka City. Koshi Meisho Brewery Co.
Koshinotsuru Honjo Junmai Ginjo Unfiltered Maehara Sake Kameguchi Nao-tori
Purchased at the Sake Expo in Harukas.
It is served cold.
When the bottle is opened, there is a slight gas sound.
When poured into a glass, fine bubbles adhere to the glass.
The color is clear and almost colorless.
The top aroma is mild, slightly citrusy and alcoholic.
The mouthfeel is fruity and gassy.
The taste is juicy and has a firm sweet flavor, finishing with a clear and pleasant bitterness that keeps it from becoming sweet and sluggish. The harmony of mellowness and clarity is nice.
As bouken mentioned, if it is too cold, the outline becomes blurred, so I prefer it when the temperature rises a little.
On the second day after opening the bottle, the gaseous sensation settled down, and after the initial feeling of light and clear, it started to swell up with a slightly sweet and juicy flavor.
Ingredients:Rice(domestic), Rice malt(domestic)
Rice used: 100% Gohyakumangoku produced in Nagaoka
Rice polishing ratio: 55
Alcohol content: 16
I'm late to the party...
We participated in the annual "Niigata Sake-no-jin (Niigata Sake Festival)" 😆.
The first time I participated was in 2012...
I've attended every year except for 2020-2022 when I couldn't attend due to some kind of infectious disease....
I don't know why I've been going so much, but this was the first time I've participated since I got really into sake, so I enjoyed it more and more as my resolution went up 🥰.
I was worried about my physical condition, so I carefully checked the list in advance and carefully selected the sake 😋.
I picked out a few of the drinks I tasted that day, mainly the paid tasting drinks ✨.
First of all...
I went to the booth for Ichikozo 21, which I tasted and bought last year and the year before, but it was so good that I bought it immediately 💸.
It tasted mellower and richer than Ichikozo 21.
I guess I have a weakness for kuro-hozuri, shizukuri, tobin-tori, and non-pressure pressed types...
Purchased at the Sake Expo in Harukas.
Like Saka, I heard from Nemuchi that he recommended it beforehand 😁.
It's not on the label, but it's a fresh, gassy sake.
It is fresh and gassy. It has just the right amount of sweetness and spiciness, not flashy but delicious. Some people may like it better than Yamashiroya.
I think it becomes sweeter and more umami when it is a little closer to room temperature than when it is fresh out of the fridge.
The quality of sake is quite different from that of Yamashiroya, but I personally prefer Koshinotsuru.
I have the impression that Yamashiroya tastes great right out of the bottle, but the taste changes so much that I gradually come to dislike it.
Abeno Harukas Kintetsu Main Store Sake Expo 2025 SAKE EXPO⑯
The last stop was the Koshinotsuru booth, where I spent the longest time talking with the visitors.
We joined in the promotion of the delicious and amazing sake to the visitors who came to the booth, and at the end, the brewer said thank you.
I was taking pictures without thinking, but according to Mr. Bouken, there were some he didn't want me to post on SNS, so I voluntarily restricted myself from doing so.
Fat Honjo
It was delicious, with a gentle, mildly delicious taste at first and a clean aftertaste.
Koshinotsuru (◯Koshinotsuru)
The brewer said he would drink this sake in the end, and it is very tasty with a sense of sake but with a mild flavor. It is so cosy that if this one sells well, they can't sell the others.
Koshinotsuru Tsuruhi Chishakusetsu Katsudo Nigori Sake
It has a very high level of deliciousness. It is powdery, but has a nice sweet flavor.
Koshinotsuru PREMIUM Junmai-shu Takane-nishiki, unfiltered
It has a smooth and smooth taste, and is very tasty.
Koshinotsuru Premium Junmai Ginjo Nakadori Gohyakumangoku
A very well-balanced sweet/umami medium-bodied sake. All the flavors are well balanced.
I was most impressed with this one.
Good evening, Mr. Nemuchi.
The reason why they are not allowed to upload on SNS is because they only serve Harukas and Sake no Jin, so they don't want local liquor stores to ask for them 😅.
Sake Expo 2025 SAKE EXPO⑥
I knew I had to go to Koshi Meikozo based on Nemuchi's advance information.
It was always crowded, so I flew there as soon as it was open😅.
I drank
Motomasa Junmai Ginjyo Kameguchi Directly filtered raw sake
No picture because I bought it.
I didn't write it down, but it's a raw sake. Nemuchi-san recommended it.
It was sweet and fruity and delicious.
Koshinotsuru PREMIUM Junmai Sake - Takane Nishiki Unfiltered
It is said to be dry, but it was not as dry as I expected, but fruity. The floral and acidity are impressive.
Koshinotsuru PREMIUM Junmai Ginjo Nakadori Gohyakumangoku
Transparent taste, but sweetness is also present.
Koshinotsuru Tsuruhi Chishaku Yuki Activated Nigori Sake
They said it was left over for the Harukas event.
They said it was out of gas, but it was slightly effervescent with a trace of sweetness and a strong rice flavor.
Koshinotsuru Bessen Normal Sake
The cost performance is very good. Easy to drink.
It's a regular sake, but it tastes great even when drunk cold.
I also drank some other sake, such as Fukuro-hozuri and 21% rice polishing ratio, but I will not go into details because I was told that it is not allowed to upload on SNS 😌.
All of the Koshinotsuru PREMIUMs were fresh like raw sake.
I was surprised at how different it was from Yamashiroya.
Yamashiroya seems to be limited to outside Niigata Prefecture.
The guy at the brewery talked a lot 😁.
He was like a comedian from Kanto!
