KAMENOMOTO is made from 100% Kame-no-o.
It is characterized by its crisp, dry taste with a firm sweet flavor.
Kame-no-o is expensive, so it is hard to afford, but this one is just under 2,000 yen for a No. 4 bottle, so it is within reach.
They are locally wholesale sake. We always buy directly from customers. It has no insistence, no habits, and has a nice slightly sweet taste. Easy to drink and delicious.
It is a product limited to Yamagata Prefecture.
This is the first time I have had Kamikigen.
It is quite rich.
In many cases, the sake tastes better when the bottle has cooled down a bit than when it is first opened, but I think this sake tasted better when the bottle was first opened.
Is it my imagination?
I was impressed by the taste when the bottle was first opened, but the next day I was not impressed anymore.
Today is Kamikigen.
The only drawback that I have noticed recently after drinking a series of delicious nama-shu is that I tend to be concerned about the freshness of the bottle after opening it and try to open a 4-gouple bottle.
It's hard to keep up with that, so I decided to tear out my stock of nama-shu and open a bottle of the Kamikigen Junmai Daiginjo that I got from the Furusato tax payment. Polishing ratio 43%, 100% Aiyama
It was smooth, juicy, gently sweet, refreshing, and in a good mood!
I learned that Aiyama is called the diamond of sake rice!
The rice is polished to a ratio of 50%.
It is fully fermented, which gives it the usual sharp, dry dry taste with added acidity and a sense of richness.
It can be drunk as a mealtime sake or on its own.