Dry Junmai Ginjo-shu
Quite sharp. The dry taste. Slightly bitter. Soft on the palate.
I'm drinking it cold, but it seems to change a little when the temperature changes. It may be served lukewarm or warmed.
This is my favorite drink
Strong drinking taste
Full-bodied sweetness in a
No one but long aftertaste
The punch that can only be found in undiluted sake
Sweet Mouth. It has been a long time since I have had sweet taste!
Purchased at a roadside station in Shiga Prefecture.
It has a pleasant taste and is easy to drink.
Kirakucho Towa, produced by Kita Shuzo, a well-known brewery in Higashiomi City, Shiga, has a mellow, fruity aroma and juicy flavor. The soft mouthfeel is harmonized with the sweetness of the rice, and the aftertaste is clean and elegant. It is also an excellent food sake.
I bought this year's "Tawawa" after reading a post on Sake-no-Wawa that it was well made this year.
Alcoholic taste is strong.
It has a slight scent of old age.
Not my favorite type.
I guess it's good warmed up.
I'm not good at it.
Shiga Sake Festival in Otsu 2025⑧
Kita Sake Brewery and Kirakucho booth.
Quite a few people lined up at this booth.
◉Kirakucho Josen Nama-nazake
Another retro label caught my eye. I tend to respond to retro labels these days.
Served at room temperature. A standard old-fashioned sake with a robust umami flavor. It has a good umami and a slightly mellow sweetness. A limited edition sake from last year. Sold only in one bottle, it is a dangerous sake with an alcohol content of 20 degrees Celsius, although it is so good that you can drink it all the time.
◉Kirakucho Junmai-shu second
Second is an evolution of first. The second second is an evolution of the first, with a gentle citric acidity and a sweet, sour and refreshing taste. It is the first of its kind at this brewery.
◉Kirakucho Junmai Ginjo-shu first
The concept of first is to make sake that even first-timers can enjoy. The aroma is gorgeous and the taste is sweet. Mineral and a little loose.
◉Kirakucho Junmai Daiginjo Chukkumi kore
A premium sake with a clean, elegant flavor that can be drunk like water. It also has a pleasant bitter aftertaste.
>Aroma: Fruity and mellow, like a kiwi fruit,
The fresh sweetness and acidity of plums in early autumn spreads out.
It has a light and refreshing taste with a good aftertaste that will make you want to drink more and more.
It is recommended to enjoy it with oysters and bonito grilled on the straw, which are autumnal delicacies.
Although it is a daiginjo, it is neither perfumey nor has a scanty aftertaste.
If you drank it blind, you would probably think it was a junmai ginjo.
I don't know about the juwajuwa on the label, but it has a good balance of umami, bitterness, astringency, and acidity, and is neither too robust nor too mature, with a core but not overly ostentatious, a rather mild umakuchi.
It has a good balance of umami, bitterness, astringency, and acidity, not too robust and not too mature, a core but not overbearing, and a slightly mild umami taste.