Looks like strawberry milk.
It doesn't taste like strawberries, but it's milky, sweet and sour like juice.
The back label has a warning about spills and the lid has a hole in it, but the one I bought had almost no gas.
Sixth drink at a different restaurant, a stand-up bar serving sake and meat sushi.
Fresh, clear and sweet, but the sweetness remains, so the second half is slightly sweet. The sake is easy to drink with a subtle refreshing acidity and a crisp bitter taste at the end.
Tomorrow is my day off. So I will drink.
My usual store recommendation. Looks like strawberry yogurt from the color. It is milky, mild and creamy. But also a little bitter, sweet and bitter. This is the fun part of sake 🍶.
Oze snowdrift, peach-colored nigori
The aroma is yogurt-like!
The sweet and sour taste is derived from red yeast! It is somehow lighter and more crisp than usual!
I couldn't buy a bottle this year 😭I'll get another if I see it somewhere!
We received Oze no Yukidoke Junmai Daiginjo Peach Color Nigori, a classic spring sake from our hometown of Gunma. It is a spring pink sake made with red yeast. This is the first time I have had it.
It has a perforated stopper, so I chilled it well and opened it carefully. It didn't spurt out, but it was very energetic, leaking gas.
The taste has a sweet and sour strawberry nuance, just as it looks. It has a soft texture and gentle mouthfeel typical of nigori sake.
The alcohol content is low at 10%, so it can be drunk like a dessert.
The standard spring sake in our house is Atago no Matsumatsu Harukoi, but it is definitely more acidic than Harukoi.
We made strawberry and cream cheese cured ham rolls with Yayoi Hime strawberries, also from Gunma Prefecture, and enjoyed them together. The moderately sour Yayoi Hime and the crisp acidity of the sake were just about the same, making a perfect pairing.
Finally, our family has entered the spring sake season in earnest. I bought too many spring sake that I wanted to drink, so I will be drinking at a high pace.
