Junmai Ginjyo Kogiri Kiritsukuba [Urasato Shuzo Brewery, Ibaraki].
The slightly greenish mouthfeel with a hint of sourness and sweetness. A sharp aftertaste. It is crisp and clear.
Ingredients: Rice (domestic), rice malt (domestic)
Rice polishing ratio: 50
Yeast used: Kumamoto yeast
Alcohol content : 15% (unpasteurized)
The moment you drink it, your tongue tingles and you feel a gaseous sensation, followed by a subtle sweetness and a crisp, clean taste.
I paired it with tuna sashimi and found it to be an exquisite marriage.
This is "Fog Tsukuba Pure Ibaraki Shizuku" ❣️
It is sold in limited quantities and numbered every year 😊.
Now it's time to open the bottle✨🥂✨
Nice aroma of sweet and sour ✨🥂✨.
Mellow with full-bodied sweetness and umami
Mild acidity there
Good gentle sweetness and density 💕😚💕
(Mellow sweetness like grape fruit)
This is delicious ♡♡♡♡
It's a real treat 😍.
It's a cup by itself 💕😋💕
Of course it goes well with food too🙆♀️
Oh 〰︎ it's so good ❤️
Actually, on this day, Dora-chan said
"Tonight is a bottle-opening festival〰︎〰︎‼️"
and she brought out 5 or 6 bottles.
But when I drank this one first
It was so delicious and handsome!
Tonight I'm going to drink only Kirizukiwa ❣️
And that's it 🤭.
End of the opening festival 🤣!
Good morning, Tsubu-chan. ☀Kiri-tsukuba is really good! I've been drinking a lot of Kirizukuba at pubs lately 😆 but I'm still jealous that you buy this expensive one 😆.
We were both sake-less on the weekend when we went our separate ways😑.
We were supposed to put off sake until this weekend 🥲... but when Jay came home on Monday of our reunion, he received a happy invitation from Nobby, who said, "I was suspected of spying 🕵️ on Tochigi sake at Sake-no-wa, so I thought I'd have a drink 🤭!
Oh~! Let's drink it 😋" and the chosen drink was Kirizukuba ‼️ which was recommended by Manachie and I definitely wanted to drink it, and this choice shows the depth of nostalgia of the people of Tochigi Prefecture 😉.
There was no "Kogiri" which Aladdin and Mamio were drinking 🥲, but this one was a definite favorite 😙Noby stopped by Ikeda Sake Shop on his way from Utsunomiya to his parents' house in Chiba 🚗 about a month ago and got it for us 🥹.
It goes well with grilled fish, so we prepared some accompaniments for dinner 🤗.
I'll make love to you!
The aroma is lemon flavor! Oh, it's because I squeezed lemon in the dish 😅It's soft and fruity 😌.
The first sip is even sweet at the first touch 😍Hey? My first impression is that this is a big dry one 😌.
But as you continue to drink it, it gradually becomes more and more dry and crisp 😚.
Nice dry 👍
It certainly goes well with the grilled fish of the day!
There are many good Ibaraki sake 🤗.
Hi Jay & Nobby 😊 nice assist, Nobby ☝️ grilled fish and dry alcohol...how can they not go together 😁 I am also planning to abstain from alcohol until next weekend...just planning until 😅...
Hi Jay & Nobby 😃I'm so excited about the reunion and the unscheduled feast 👌and the big spicy one ‼️ you are so mature 😘I hope the day comes when I can say unmai with a big spicy one for grilled fish 😮💨 I still admire you two💕I have to work hard too ❣️
Good evening, Jay & Nobby!
You were suspected of being a spy 😁✨.
Dry sake seems to go well with grilled fish 😋.
You also make us laugh with the lemon flavor 😊.
Hello Jay & Nobby😄This is a sake from Ibaraki called Kiri-Tsukuba! I've seen a lot of sake labeled as "very dry", but many of them have a surprisingly umami or sweet taste! It goes well with grilled fish. I would like to try it.
Good evening, Jay & Nobby 😃.
Thank you for the Kiri-Tsukuba 🍶☺️
I think Kiri-Tsukuba is a deliciously dry sake that starts off with an umakuchi taste and then quickly and cleanly snaps out of it, as it brings out the full flavor of the rice!
I want to drink it too 🤤.
Good evening, Jay & Nobby, ⭐misty Tsukuba! Glad you enjoyed drinking Tsukuba sake 😊.
It's more refreshing than dry 🤔I also want to drink it again with grilled fish 😋.
Hi HinaHanaMama 😃!
We both only had beer 🍺 on weekends 😅 so it was nice to have a reunion party 🥰Kochira was refreshingly delicious and perfect for grilled fish 🤗.
Hi ma-ki 😃
I'm pretty sure that the person who allegedly spied 🕵️ recommended it 😅It was a really good bottle 😋.
The lemon🍋! Thanks for picking it up 😊.
Hi Nao888😃
The liquor store that sells it is far away 🥲 and we finally got our hands on some 🤗Tochigi sake is too popular and we are suspected of being spies 🕵️ 😆
Hi Mamio 😃
I've been wanting to drink Kirizukuba for a long time 😍I finally got to drink it thanks to a stopover on my way home from Nobby's parents' house 😋Honto! It was too good with grilled fish 😙.
Jay & Nobby.
Good evening...you are full of love for Tochigi 🥰.
I've never seen this brand before 😳I would avoid it if I heard it was very dry, but I would like to try this clear and deliciously dry sake!
Good evening, Jay & Nobby 😀
Kirizukuba was the first sake I tasted with aluzuki, but I haven't tasted this one yet😇.
But I'm sure Urasato-san's sake tastes good enough for me even though it's called "very dry" 😀.
Good evening, Jay & Nobby 😃.
Label description.
'Superbly sharp and numbing, super dry, no lingering aftertaste there.'
Cool 😎👍.
I'm interested, or rather I'd like to drink it 😃.
Good morning, Jay & Nobby!
I was wondering about this sake from Urasato Sake Brewery too, I found it the other day when I went to Nagoya for a drink and brought it home 🥰.
I plan to open and review it next time 😁.
Thanks, Jay & Nobby!
My son lives in Ibaraki now, right? ☝️ He loves Tochigi's local sake Kaika Junmai and keeps it on hand! I was wondering if I could recommend some of Ibaraki's local sake as well 🤔........OK 😙.
The rule of "no miss in special junmai" is well known in the sake brewing world, and I was looking forward to this special junmai from Kirizukuba. I was looking forward to this special junmai from Kiri-Tsukuba.
The comment on the brewery's website is very apt and I quote
It is our standard sake that can be enjoyed at any temperature.
It has a light, dry taste with a hint of rice flavor.
If we were to talk about ramen, it would be salt ramen with a clear broth.
I don't have many words to add,
It is fire-brewed but unfiltered, and the orizumi (a hint of ooze) is still present.
Special Junmai Kirizukuba
Only carefully selected rice suitable for sake brewing (Gohyakumangoku) is used, polished to 55%, and brewed with Ogawa yeast.
It is our standard sake, which can be enjoyed cold, chilled, or warmed.
It is not flashy, but it is a sake with a light, dry taste that brings out the flavor of the rice.
In terms of ramen, it is a salt ramen with a clear soup.
It has a light, dry taste that does not interfere with the flavor or aroma of the food, making it a sake that can be drunk slowly and forever.
Hiraccio-san, good evening 😄No special junmai sake is out of place! I think you are right 😊Kiri-Tsukuba-san! Urasato-san has become quite famous, but this one is delicious too 😊I've never had it before, so I'm curious.
Good evening, Mr. Manachy😊.
I learned about Kirizukuba through Manachie's post and am enjoying it including Urasato.
Although Urasato is softer and smarter,
but the Kiri-Tsukuba has a nice flavor again👍.
Good evening, Mr. Sashu 😊.
You really can't go wrong with special junmai sake, ❗️
It is common that there is a sense of goodness that shines through the lack of flamboyance.
I feel that the Ogawa yeast has a unique gentle and soft flavor and depth of flavor.
The sake is a testament to the brewer's solid sake quality design ability and outstanding sake brewing technique. Each drop of this refined sake, which is the result of a subtractive aesthetic, is the soul of the brewer, who is obsessed with Ogawa yeast.
This sake is brewed in the same tank as the sake entered in the competition to commemorate the brilliant performance of "Kiri-Tsukuba Junmai Daiginjo" brewed by Chikara Urasato, a toji who is the master brewer of this sake, in the 2024 competition.
Although the evaluation of the competition is not absolute, it is a good indicator of sake brewing techniques.
The appearance is pale yellow crystal.
Elegant, mildly fresh, and fragrant ginjo aroma.
The aroma is typical of sake brewed with banana, melon, and Ogawa yeast.
The faint volatile aroma is refreshing, and the rice aroma is about the same as that of Kamishinko (rice powder).
In the mouth, the texture is soft and smooth.
The elegant, mellow sweetness spreads smoothly like a flower blooming in the mouth, and the mild acidity spreads smoothly.
When the harmony of the flavor, the good ginjo aroma of banana and melon, and a slight volatile aroma is pleasantly felt, the aroma disappears as if it were a mirage.
The aftertaste is clean and stringy.
The aroma and taste are as if the core of Ogawa yeast's sake brewing has been extracted and crystallized through subtractive aesthetics.
It was simply amazing.
It was an intoxicating experience.
Hi Aladdin 😊
Just reading your post makes me swoon😍It must be very delicious.
It's a hell of a drink, so what is it? Kiri number? I thought so, but not so much. Sake adds color to our daily life, doesn't it?
Good morning, Maru 😃.
The aroma, texture, taste, lingering appearance, etc. were all of high quality: ☺️
Except for intentional aging, I'm trying to practice "when you want to drink it, it's caisendoki 🍶"... but this is not so easy 😁.