After overcoming an unexpected setback, we headed to Shima & Coffee & Sake 🚶.
I looked in the cellar immediately after entering the store and chose this one for a cup of sake 🍶.
Hana no Kaori Junmai Ginjo Kikka
Sweet aroma like a white peach before it ripens, the mouthfeel is against the aroma, the flavor is mellow and delicious, the taste is gentle and sweet, and it finishes with a gorgeous fruity aftertaste, and the last thing that remains is the bitterness on the tongue and throat.
For the entrée, we sampled a dish from Takashi's "Watercress soaked in watercress with fruit tomatoes and fresh ginger" that will be served tomorrow 🍴.
The sweetness of the fruit tomatoes, the flavor of the fresh ginger, and finally the freshness of the watercress, which is refreshing without bitterness, seems to be a project for tomorrow's "June 6th.
Robatayaki Kohachi, Kumamoto, Japan
Slightly carbonated and juicy
Delicious!
I didn't expect to buy a bottle of sake only, but this one is No.4 bottle only 😇 This is my first time to buy a bottle of this size or something like that lol
Gorgeous ginjo aroma
A little bit of schwarziness
Sourness and richness give a refreshing feeling after swallowing.
This may be what is meant by a sake with a good sharpness.
It tasted delicious, so it was as good as the fat from the hokke (hokke crackers).
Thank you Inomoto Sake Shop for telling us about it.
Sangdo Shinpyo Limited "Hananoka x Shiroito" (Flower Scent x White Thread) 2025.
This is a collaboration between Hananaka Shuzo, which brews Sanchi, and Shiraito Shuzo, which brews Tanaka Rokuugo, and is a limited edition Sanchi Shinen sake brewed at Hananaka Shuzo using koji made at Shiraito Shuzo from Yamadanishiki produced in Itoshima!
It has a fresh, fresh nose with a strong lactic acidity and lychee-like nuances.
In the mouth, the strong gaseous sensation is pleasant, and the thick texture on the tongue is reminiscent of Hana-no-Kou. The robust sweetness of Yamadanishiki produced in Itoshima fills the mouth, while a refreshing bitterness and a smooth aftertaste can be enjoyed.
It is an exquisite collaboration that combines the individualities of both breweries!
Hello, YSTJ!
What a fascinating collaboration this is: ⤴️
And that it is a perfect combination of the personalities of both breweries 🤤.
It's a bottle of bliss only for the participants of the divine banquet 😋.
Elegant sparkling with sweet and sour taste. It is a very ordinary, but impeccably beautiful sake. It was a good wine that I could drink easily.
When I visited Fukuoka in early spring, I went to Omuta on the second day and rented a car to visit the brewery. We arrived at the brewery a little after 11:00 a.m., stopping at a roadside station along the way.
At the Hanakairo (store) attached to the brewery, there was one customer who had already purchased two bottles of sansho and only one bottle of sansho remained! Wow!
Fortunately, there is a SANDO store within easy reach of my house, so I decided to buy a local brand, Hana-no-Kou (fragrance of cherry blossoms). My wife, who usually criticizes me for the pressure of the refrigerator on the draft sake, could not pass up the opportunity to buy three bottles of sake: a draft of Yuki-hana, a fire-brewed Sakura-hana, and a bottle of Umeshu. We were supposed to open them at the inn, but we changed our minds and decided to drink them in their proper form, so we packed them carefully and brought them home. I brought it back home with great care, including packing. As an added bonus, I got a commemorative 200 check-in.
Good evening, ma-ki-. Thank you very much. It looks like you and your wife are getting along well. I'm trying to reduce the amount of raw sake in the fridge for the summer, but when I tried to move to refrigerating one bottle of fire-brewed sake, I got angry (lol).
Nf bapak, good morning 😃.
Congratulations on your 200 check-in ㊗️㊗️ with a full bottle opening 🎉Good job on seeing off the laying soil and going for the floral fragrance spark 🤗.
Nf bapak, congratulations on your 200 check-in 🎉🎉!
It's a good celebration for you, a very hard to find number at the Flower Incense 😊👍✨It was worth the effort to go there and bring it back 😉.
Thank you, Jay & Nobby. Sansho is good enough for basic Yamadanishiki, and I see it in stores quite a bit, so I end up choosing different sake. There are many delicious sake all over Japan ٩٩_.
Cherry blossoms purchased at last month's Sangdo Shinpyo party were opened: ✨️
I was actually going to open it earlier, but there was no time to drink it and for some mysterious reason it was called pre-Mother's Day 🤣(probably because I was happy to have any excuse to drink it).
I drank Umehana at the banquet and was impressed by its slightly cloudy and very light taste, and its fruity and light sweetness in the mouth.
This was my first Sakurabana...
First of all, the rich flavor of rice spreads!
Is it rich and thick? The bitter aftertaste is not as heavy as I thought it would be at the end.
It's quite drinkable 😙.
I was drinking it with a moist ham cutlet rice cracker, but it was as strong as the spicy sauce flavor of the rice cracker, and both the sweet and the salty were gone without stopping 😱.