Hankyu Department Store Event
October 29-November 4, 2025 (2)
Taisetsukei booth.
The brewers who come to the usual brewery festivals.
The name "Daisekkei" comes from the first letter of the three D's in "Drinker's Delight Daisekkei," and is supposedly meant to bring joy to drinkers at Daisekkei.
◉Daisekkei Junmai Ginjo D Yamadanishiki
This is a beautifully crafted, yet clearly acidic, Yamada-Nishiki.
Taisetsukei Junmai Ginjo D Omachi
I asked if Omachi could be grown in Nagano, and was told that it could be, for better or worse, due to the effects of global warming. I prefer it to Yamada-Nishiki for its fruitiness.
Winner of the IWC2025 Junmai Ginjo Trophy.
They are not coming to the brewery festival this time, so it looks like this is the last time they will be in Kansai this year.
There is still time to visit the Hanshin Department Store, which is hosting the Nippon Sake Festival.
Taisetsukei Junmai Nigori Sake 720ml
Ingredients: Rice (Nagano Prefecture), Rice Koji (Nagano Prefecture)
Rice polishing ratio 65
Alcohol content 15%.
We took a short break at Kotani Roadside Station.
This place has a one-day hot spring, restaurant, and a counter bar where you can drink sake.
There was also a counter bar where you can drink sake. As expected, there were no drinkers 😄.
The sake lineup includes original sake from Kitaan Okuni, Hakuba Nishiki, Daishinshu, etc. It's fun just to look at them 😀.
The sake was light, smooth, and surprisingly easy to drink, but not too much.
It's like rice soup 🥣.
And at 1,320 yen, it's the most cost-effective sake 🍶.
A little drink after work. The counter was open, so I visited Cape for the first time in a while. Let's go to Nagano. First, we had Taisetsukei. Fruity, aromatic, and gorgeous. It has a nice flavor and finishes quickly. It is a beautiful sake and delicious.
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Great snowy valley, I didn't know that (^_^;)
Fruity and fresh melon type 🍶.
It was too mellow, sharp and delicious (≧▽≦)!
Thank you very much!
I'm an amateur baseball player, but I didn't go anywhere and watched the Dodgers every day for three consecutive weekends.
Congratulations to the Dodgers! It was a lot of fun.
I'm going to have a drink to celebrate.
I'm not a Dodgers D! I'm not a Dodger, but it's starting to look like one.
A blend of Junmai Daiginjo and Junmai Ginjo. It is sweet and gorgeous and the first sip is the best. It can be a bit bitter if you drink it all the time, but you will want to reset it and drink it again.
Purchased at a store in Kamikochi.
The aroma is mild, fresh, and easy to drink without any peculiarities.
At 1,100 yen for 500 ml, it is very cost-effective.
Purchased because of the retro label.
No gassy feeling. Aroma is weak and a little tingly on the nose. Sweetness and acidity are not prominent. It tastes like a junmai sake. It should be good as an in-between-dinner drink.