This sake is from my hometown, Echizen-Ono.
This is another brewery that is eager to make new kinds of sake.
This sake is made from red rice. I am looking forward to it.
The rosé color is beautiful.
Like cherry blossoms in early summer.
Quite sweet!
Ginjo aroma, full acidity, and light sweetness. The aftertaste is crisp and spicy.
The second sip, four flavors combine to create a refreshing taste.
The second sip, the four flavors combine to create a refreshing taste, and the finish of strong snacks such as mackerel is also crisp!
Not quite fruity, but refreshing.
How about if you heat it up?
A different sweetness. From the lightness that seems to seep through, a sweetness with flavor that floats to the surface. It's soft and moist. The refined sweetness is pleasant.
Well, this is interesting, too.
Hanxatsuse, a day late.
In Echizen-Ono, there is a custom to eat a whole roasted mackerel (in Kansai, they eat octopus, and in Kagawa, they eat udon). I have been eating a whole fish since I was a child.
You can smell the aroma of grilled mackerel everywhere in town. It brings back memories.
It is hard to find whole grilled mackerel, and now that I am an old man, I can't eat a whole mackerel, but I enjoy a big grilled mackerel as a side dish and reminisce about my hometown.
Manazuru's Kaiseki Honjozo.
It is smooth and easy to drink. It is clean and dry.
You feel like you are drinking sake. There is not much of a sake smell, but it tastes like old-fashioned sake.
Although it is alky, there is no strange alcohol smell or peculiarity, and it is delicious. It has an honest taste. It's good!
Amazake-like aroma, fresh and crisp, sweet and sour fruit aroma.
Little thickening, with a distinctly spicy aftertaste.
The fruity sweetness is followed by a gentle bitterness.
It gives the impression of a daiginjo that you will not get tired of drinking.
Personally, I prefer a more fruity taste.
This sake brewery is located in Ono City, Fukui Prefecture. Although the introduction states that they specialize in high-end sake, there was a selection of reasonably priced sake. I was intrigued by some of the more unusual sake, such as apple yeast and rosé sake.
I bought the sake recommended at the directly-managed store.
It had a sweet soy sauce-like aroma like Mitarashi dumplings and a sour flavor.
It was very gentle on the palate, with a good balance of sweetness, a little sourness, and bitterness, and was easy to drink.
It has the taste of so-called sake, but it is very easy to drink and recommended as an introduction to classic sake.
Sake from Echizen-Ono, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
The first sake of the New Year is a sake from our hometown.
Powerful taste!
The taste has a crisp rice sweetness and a tangy, alky spiciness.
The taste is firmly supported by a dignified plum-like acidity.
This acidity is extremely good!
Even when it is paired with snacks, the acidity blends in with the snacks while strongly supporting them.
It is quite tasty as a food sake!
How about if you heat it up?
The savory flavor is strong and the bitterness is enhanced.
However, it is a pity that the sweetness and acidity are hidden.
I prefer it at room temperature.
Happy New Year!
I will try my best to introduce the taste of sake to as many people as possible this year.
I hope you will continue to enjoy my sake diary as well.
Purchased at a local liquor store's sake hanpukai.
The mouthfeel is soft and umami comes out first.
It is easy to drink with a light bitterness after that.
This is a sake from my hometown in the Oku-Echizen region of Fukui Prefecture - Ono City.
It was sent to me by my mother along with a donation from a volunteer organization. As a foolish son, I can only be thankful.
When you put it in your mouth, you can feel the pungent taste wafting deep inside.
One second, two seconds...the sweet taste of rice and sweet taste of water that wells up from the bottom of the mouth. A single, consistent, and dignified flavor. Everything is elegant.
Everything is the taste of the rice and famous water of Echizen-Ono that has nurtured me. It is nostalgic.
How about if you warm it up?
A little sourness and sweetness come forward.
The alcohol taste of the sake gives it a bit of hardness.
Maybe I prefer it cold.
It was served at a rice cake pounding event on Christmas Eve.
I have a drink with a fellow volunteer and sake lover who has recently become a friend of mine, while enjoying pork miso soup and chimaizuke pickles in a corner of the venue.
I was met with cold stares from the ladies who said, "Don't drink, help out!" (of course).
I still have no muscle aches. I wonder if I am still young or if I have not worked hard enough....
It was not Daiginjo but "Kaiseki Shunginjo".
Sorry about that.