The gulp is a clear liquid with a slight yellowish tinge. There is not much aroma.
In the mouth, a slight acidity, gentle. ☺️
Then sweetness spreads from the tip of the tongue to the back of the tongue.
After that, a glimpse of sourness and bitterness comes into the face.
The entire tongue is continuously enveloped in sweetness (sweetness without tartness) from beginning to end, and you feel a sense of coolness 😌.
With Kanazawa Oden.
Takeba's pure rice sake with raw yeast, made entirely from ingredients grown in Noto.
The yeast is extracted from Noto's seaweed.
Served cold, it has a full aroma, a robust flavor, and a sweet, heavy texture.
As an aside, a friend of mine who lives in Kanazawa, with whom I shared a drink later, also said "Takeha is delicious," so it seems that Takeha is loved by the locals as well.
Takeba is a sake from Noto that we got at Koreya in Kitasenju. It is a junmai ginjo with a refreshing taste and not too sweet like junmai sake, so you can drink as many glasses as you like. I recommend it after a toast with beer or something!
It's cold today as forecasted. Echigo Yuzawa already has news of snow accumulation at ski resorts, and Kagura might open on schedule for the first time in a while.
I should have bought more this weekend. I don't have anything suitable for heating sake today. So, I went rummaging around and came up with a bottle of Takeba, which I bought at Noto Cheer.
I served it cold first, with boiled komatsuna and deep-fried tofu.
It was light and easy to drink, but had a strong umami flavor that went well with the fried bean curd soaked in the dashi broth. We finished the first sake in no time, and next we had it lukewarm with sweet and spicy teriyaki chicken. After the sake was warmed up a little, the sourness started to appear on the back of the mouth. The sourness in the back end of the sake was good, not to be outdone by the sweet and spicy flavor.
The flavor changed so much just by warming it up, it was like a great deal. I hope you will try both. Oh, I think the cold one was the sashimi. (No, the fried tofu was delicious, but I would definitely pair it with white meat sashimi for that refreshing taste!)
The body is robust and calm, as is typical of hiyaoroshi.
The main flavors are sourness and bitterness, but it is a little difficult to drink and would make a good mid-meal drink.
The challenge was to finish the sake menu in order from the bottom to the top, sharing one gou of sake among three people.
The sake is naturally delicious since it is a rice-producing place.
The challenge was to finish the sake menu in order from the bottom to the top, sharing one gou of sake among three people.
The sake is naturally delicious since it is a rice-producing place.