HONMOTO!!!
The smell of ink. A twang in the nose. Slight fizz. A lingering aftertaste that is sharp but slightly sweet. Tongue is chattering. Bitterness from alcohol. Dry and dry. Uma. I can't get enough of it.
19 degrees! They say they are decreasing the amount year by year.
Purchased at the brewery.
This sake is only sold in one bottle. The first brewing was dry due to high temperature and early fermentation; the second brewing, to be released in December, will have a different flavor. It is distributed almost exclusively locally. Kiso-village has a lot of sake drinkers, so it is sold by the case. Wow.
Photo 1 was taken when I bought it. The trophy from the Kanto Shinetsu Regional Taxation Bureau in the background is not posted on SNS because the reflection of the trophy would make me appear in the picture.
It is really fun to learn a lot of things at a sake brewery.
section of the Nakasendo
Slightly effervescent. Delicious with a refreshing sweetness and fruitiness. The taste is firm even when the temperature rises. The label seems to change with the seasons.
At Sake Brewery YUKAWA. A bar attached to a sake brewery. Ladder from Masumi.
A place where you can drink sake while chatting directly with Kuroemon XVI. He said he was thinking of assuming the name, but decided not to because of the difficulties involved in registering his family name and so on. It's a male name.
The sake brewery has won many awards in the prefecture, nationally, and internationally, but it was worth going for a drink to feel close to the side of the family business that they are working hard on.
Today was the first anniversary of the bar's opening, and I won a small bottle of sake in a raffle. I was so happy.
hiyaoshi
Sweet honey apple sweetness. It's good! Nice matured taste. I like that the sweet honey is not too strong. Gentle sweetness. A little custard sweetness. 94 points
Sweetness: 2.8
Acidity: 3.2
Dryness:2.6
Hinted aroma:3
Nagano business trip! I'll be there without fail. ✍️
I went to "Kirishina Soba Restaurant" for lunch.
I had another local sake at "Kirishina Soba Restaurant" where we went for lunch.
I drank it without knowing if it was dry or not.
What the heck! It's a hit 🎯 dry!
Anyway, it has a nice sharpness! Refreshing ⛰️
I drank it so fast (on a business trip!)!
Nagano's local sake might be my type 🙄.
I saw a great view of Mt. Ontake: ☺️
Night in Kisodani🌉.
Kisoji fresh stored sake🍶.
We drank again today.
But don't worry🙆
Because I drank Hyakusomaru!
A great town with a great selection of sake and drugs👍
Nagano sake has not been around recently, but I popped it on the Internet.
My favorite is Kisoji hiyaoroshi from Kuroemon XVI's brewery.
Modern! I was surprised because Kuroemon XVI was so modern while expressing the deliciousness of the sake,
I was looking forward to seeing how punchy the local version would be. It is very easy to drink.
For the first time, I could smell the aroma of banana in sake.
Two customers ahead of me
They left the restaurant shortly after I visited.
A young man was running the restaurant by himself.
We had a nice chat for a while.
He apologized for not having enough sake for the day.
He apologized and said that he would have a lot of sake in stock tomorrow.
But there were a few sakes I was interested in, so I decided to have them!
Waka asked me if I had drunk this one!
Kisoji
I looked it up on Sake-no-Wa and found that I had had a Yamahai Junmai Hiyahoroshi once before, but this time it was Junmai Hiyahoroshi!
He quietly told me that it was the sake that was voted the best by the participants at a recent Nihon Meimon Sake Kai event!
When I poured it into the glass, it was a bit acidic.
I thought it would have a strong acidity, but it's very refreshing and easy to drink.
I'm sure everyone would have chosen it!
Before the dishes we ordered were served, we were served oshinko (Japanese pickles) earlier in the day, so let's take our time while eating these!
Knowledge
Alcohol 15 degrees
Sake degree -0.9
Acidity 1.56
Amino acidity 1.33
Rice used: Hitogokochi from Nagano Prefecture
Sake rice: 100% Hitogochiki produced in Nagano Prefecture
Rice polishing ratio: 70
Alcohol content: 15
I bought this sake because I felt that a sake made with Hitogokochi from Nagano Prefecture suited my palate.
The aroma was gorgeous, the flavor was strong, and it was very satisfying.
This is only the third sake I have had, so I will actively buy more when I find other sake made from Nagano Hitogokochi.
