#Osaka Kitashinchi#
W Yoshi/Kuro
Business trip to Osaka.
I came to a familiar restaurant where my friends are waiting for me 😤.
This one is made with "HyogoSake85".
It's a little dry, isn't it?
It has a refreshing taste. It feels like drinking Kyoto sake 🤔.
It makes the strong flavored snacks mild 👍
Squid grilled
Sashimi of mussel
Purchased at a sake shop
A guy I used to know at a sake bar recommended this sake from Hyogo!
A brand that you don't see very often in Osaka 👀.
Cold sake.
Subdued aroma
Light on the palate
Rounded flavor with a mellow and astringent taste in the mid-palate
It is rather dry.
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Ingredients: Rice (Hyogo Prefecture), Rice malt (Hyogo Prefecture)
Rice used: 100% Yamadanishiki
Alcohol content: 16
I opened the bottle thinking that I must drink it before the next wooden tag comes out. Every year I buy two bottles for myself and drink one bottle right away and the other after letting it sit for a while. It's a fresh, lively, sweet and tasty sake when drunk immediately, and it doesn't lose its flavor when left to sit. Both are delicious 😋 Great woodcuts.
Good evening, Mr. Manachie 🌃
The first time I tasted it was at a bar in Kawasaki 😅.
It's sweet, but it's plain sweet. And it's a delicious taste that makes you feel like umamu. It's not fancy but it's a delicious sake 😊.
Bought at the end of a drinking session as it was the last time it was brewed with Isehikari. The aroma of the first sip is very good. When you put it in your mouth, the aroma and flavor of the rice spreads and it tastes delicious. As it goes down the throat, it becomes sharp and clean. Okutanba is delicious. I drank it after a week, but it tasted a little bitter. It is best to drink it right after opening the bottle.
Purchased from the brewery web store. It came with a stopper with a hole in it. They said they would replace the stopper after arrival. They were afraid to do so...but they succeeded. It was put in the refrigerator.
According to the explanation on the website, there are two kinds of sake: the supernatant and the nigori, so I tasted the supernatant first. It is easy to drink, refreshing, and has a nice sharpness, and it goes down your throat easily. It was delicious. Next, we had the nigori. It is also delicious with a full-bodied and umami flavor.
Both were delicious. You can never go wrong with Okutanba.
Ane-san Good evening. Regular Aizan is also attractive, isn't it? This time I bought that one with it since it's the last one to be brewed with Isehikari 😃✨.
It is quite dry. The rice flavor and almond aroma are in a dryness that makes you feel like you're in a hurricane.
(2024.12.15 note) The taste has become a little rounder. It has the aroma of cedar, sweetened condensed milk, and almonds. The dryness remains the same.
Okutanba, 21 years old,,,, raw sake?
No way, 3 year old nama sake!
From the taste, I thought it might be a sake made from the original sake, but I was curious to know what kind of sake this original sake was!
It still retains the appearance of nama-shu, but now, what kind of sake is it?
Now I would like to try the sake of the appropriate year!
Sake rice developed to be grown in northern Hyogo Prefecture
Parentage is Yamada-Nishiki, but the characteristics are an early maturing variety instead of Gohyakumangoku.
The variety name was written in Roman characters for the first time in Japan with the aim of exporting.
Yamana Sake Brewery's Hyogo Sake 85 is available in sparkling, kijoshu and sherry cask in addition to the regular version.
It is aged in oak barrels and has a pale yellowish color.
The aroma is sweet apple, still close to sake, but it has a concentrated sweetness like raisins and a slightly smoky woody flavor.
The slightly smoky woodiness definitely shows the influence of the sherry casks.
The taste has a stronger dried fruit and oakiness, and is more reminiscent of a sherry cask whiskey with water than sake.
The sweetness and umami that is typical of sake starts to emerge from the mid-part, and the tannin astringency finishes the taste.
Overall, the sake is not very sake-like, but the balance of barrel aging is superb, making it a very drinkable and tasty sake.
Hyogo Sake 85 100% used. The Naomahan is brewed sharply as usual.
It has been a long time since Okutanba (as a brand name) has been brewed.
I have a bad habit of imagining sweet and sour when I hear the name of a sake that is "shwashuwa" and "nigori" (nigori). Of course, it is not sweet, and moreover, I have never encountered sweetness in sake brewed with this rice.
It is not extremely hot, but the sweetness has been put somewhere else, and the sourness has been put somewhere else, too. It is a spicy sake after all!
There is no bitterness characteristic of nigori, and it is very rich, with a sweetness-like flavor that accompanies the richness. It is easy to drink, and it is easier to drink than expected.
It took me a long time to open the bottle because it was so shwashy. The fireworks on the label say it very well.
Purchased at Nishinomiya Hankyu Department Store
It is a small brewery in Nishinomiya prefecture. The label is a nice nostalgic design. It has a strong dry taste, so I wonder if it would be good as a summer sake.
I would like to try it heated when it gets cooler.
