Shiga Local Sake Festival in Otsu 202510
Sho Shiki Sake Brewery, Sho Shiki booth.
The brewery's toji was here as well. They brought the same MONSOON and other series as the Takashimaya Sake Festival.
◉Shaoshiki Kijoshu Special Arc Cold Front Orizake EXTREME 2024-2025 <Limited Edition for Shiga Sake Festival>.
This is a limited edition sake only available here. The taste is elegant and light, with a green apple-like fruitiness.
◉Shojo-shiki Kojo-shu Special Arc Cold Front 2024-2025
This is the regular orizashi version, from the production line that came out about a week ago. This one also has a green apple flavor, refreshing and clean.
◉Shojo-shiki Kijo-shu Special Arc Cold Front 2023-2024
Mild and mellow. Still some minerality.
◉Shiki Kijoshu Special Arc Cold Front 2022-2023
Aged for 3 years. The most robust flavor, minerality and drinkability.
The same specs and different ages are compared to show how interesting kijoshu can be.
I was impressed by the service spirit of the company, such as the fact that they made and brought a special sake that was only available at the event.
Laughing Four Seasons Drinking Comparison (accidentally 🤣)
I stayed over the night before a business trip to Osaka, this time in Esaka.
I went to the restaurant alone to have a quick drink.
There were about 10 kinds of sake. But since I was going all out, I thought I'd try some Kansai sake, but the only Kansai sake available was Shoki and Kankoume (Kansai?). I had just had Shoki the day before at home...!
Laughing Shiki WORLD PEACE Nama Orizake
This is my first time drinking this!
Gentle sweetness, fresh!
Slightly lactic?
Fruity, slightly sour
A bit cloudy (of course 🤣), overall gentle and tasty 😋.
Sensation GOLD, which I drank the day before, a bit bitter and sour, this one smooth overall, maybe?
Pineapple and rose label...looks like a flower yeast!
Good morning, Takashi 😃.
Thanks for your business trip to Osaka: 🙇♀️
LOL Shiki, we happened to compare drinks! They are totally different types so it made for an interesting drinking comparison👌Good luck with your work☺️I guess izakaya shinkansen 🚅 on the way home🤣.
I was in a liquor store in August and found this stuff 😳(I just didn't know it was there)! and found a GOLD of Laughing Four Seasons Sensation😳 (I just didn't know it myself.) I'm pretty sure I've had the black, white and blue, but never the gold. So I bought it.
After I bought it, I looked it up on the internet and it says that gold is special and should be used for special occasions! It says, "Gold is special, so please enjoy it on special occasions! Well, speaking of special occasions, September is our wedding anniversary. But what's the point of having my wife cook a meal at home for us to drink at home, huh? The next special day is my wife's birthday in October..................................also no good 😣.
So, a totally normal day 🥳.
This is delicious 😋.
Sweetness is gentle and fresh!
A little sourness coming? A little.
Slight bitterness from the back? That citrus-y feeling?
It's an old style sake yeast, it's supposed to be like this 🤔.
Bottled in Dec. 24, shipped in Aug. 25, does that mean it's been laid up? Do they do that with the raw sake too? To let the 🧐 taste settle?
It's delicious, so whatever 😘.
Hi ma-ki-😊
I don't drink that much either, but lol there are many different seasons to try. 😋.
GOLD is good if you don't mind a bit of bitterness. I wonder if there was another lactic acid-like one?
Hi, Takashi 🐦.
I've been going back! Oh, really lol, it's a continuation of the four seasons 😆 gold is also delicious 😊 lol what a sensation the four seasons are, I prefer the sensation 😁.
Good evening, Pon 😊.
It was totally unplanned, but I had to laugh 😆 at the four seasons in a row.
I usually don't drink the same brand I drank at home out the next day, but I was in the mood 🥳.
I'm laughing 🤣 I don't hate it, so it's ok.
I don't know if that's the right word,
I don't know if that's the right word, but it went down so smoothly that I thought I was drinking water.
I was surprised.
The day before my husband's birthday, we had a joint birthday party in Kyoto.
My mother and husband share the same birthday, but this year my sister celebrated her birthday with my mother, so for the first time in a long time, my husband and I spent time together.
We had wine without sake for dinner.
The next day we went to Matsuo-taisha shrine, which is famous as the "god of sake brewing.
I would be happy if I could drink good sake all the time.
Back home, I opened a bottle of this sake I bought at the Takashimaya Sake Festival. I tasted many different kinds and liked it.
It has a fruity aroma despite the retro label. It reminds me of white wine.
I liked the balance of firm rice flavor, acidity and sweetness.
On the second day, the fruity part of the aroma calmed down, and the overall roundness of the wine brought out the full flavor of the rice.
I think this is the first time I have tasted Shiga Watabune No. 2 sake rice.
Good evening, Lutertemi 🌛.
Happy Birthday to you all 🎉!
I too prayed for a lifelong love of sake when I visited Matsuo Taisha Shrine 🥰.
It seems like it would be a blessing to see the [dedicated sake barrel] in the shrine building. ✨️
Hi Luteltemi 😃
Happy joint birthday celebration 🎂🎉!
This kind of dinner 🍽️ is good even without sake 😌 we tend to be izakaya 🏮😅.
I really want to stay healthy and drink well 🥹.
Good evening, Jay & Nobby.
It has been another month since your birthday. Thank you for your comment 😊J&N, like you and your wife.
I can enjoy the izakaya🏮 as much as you do.
I envy you so much.
Good evening, Lutetemi 😊.
Happy Birthday 🎂 to you and your family (I did)㊗️🎉, Lutemi!
You had a wonderful birthday week ✨🍽️🍷⛩️
Have a happy (together) birthday again next year 🤗
Happy birthday, Lutemi 🎉🎂 sorry for the very late 🙏💦.
I'm sure the God of Sake will be smiling on you this year after visiting Matsuo 😊👍✨.
Happy birthday to both of you next year ✨
Thank you, Pon. I am now old enough to feel happy to be able to celebrate my birthday in good health 😆 I finally went to visit Matsuo-taisha shrine, so God is going to be mad at me for being too late.
I think the Gods are going to be mad at me😅.
Preferred ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
I wanted to try it lol Shiki.
I bought the white one online in the summer because I heard it was sweeter than the black one.
I was in a hurry to open the bottle because it was made in February.
The word-of-mouth on the Internet said it tasted of white peaches and lychee, giving the impression of a fruity sake, but perhaps it was because it had been produced so long that I didn't feel much fruitiness.
It has a light taste with a hint of sweetness and acidity.
It is a great cosmopolitan wine.
I would like to drink it with Western food like a white wine.
I would like to try it again later.
Exposition.
Emishiki World Peace
Emishiki Junmai Daiginjo Akaiito (Nama)
Emishiki Tokubetsu Junmai Sensation label is already fairly easy to find in Japan. Brewed in Emishiki, Shiga Prefecture, it basically feels natural in its acidity and refreshment. However, I wasn't impressed on this day and felt it was overshadowed by the Miyakanbai that followed.
Sensation
GOLD Gen2 Old Style Nama Moto Nama Sake
Rice for brewing and hanging rice: Watanabune No. 2 from Shiga Prefecture
Iwama mountain rock water is used.
Polishing ratio 50%.
Alcohol content 15%.
Sake meter degree - Acidity
Fat bottle opened 9/7, posted 9/29
We finally met "Kin🏅" by Laughing Four Seasons.
I couldn't help but say "ki~n" 🤣! I said 🤣.
The concept of a special edition for a special night 🤩.
Let them lead you to a special night 😘.
The smell after opening the bottle, oh 🤩!
You can expect the smell of banana🍌 or ripe melon🍈 or even mango🥭 or ripe fruit🤩!
In the mouth
Oh, it's good! Delicious! Dark! Spicy!
The flavor runs through the mouth in 4 stages 🏃💨.
The aftertaste insists on spiciness!
The moderate acidity moderates the spiciness.
The impression of the second day is the same.
On the third day, the spiciness and acidity are gone and it's easier to drink 😊.
Delicious!
My left knee is still the same... 💦.
Walking is fine but light twisting hurts 🤕.
Even exchanging ⚽️ passes with my son hurts...
I'm in no hurry to heal😅
I will start walking this week 🚶💨
Hi Kozo 😃.
Knee, it seems to take a long time to recover 🥺I think rehabilitation is good from walking, not rushing ☺️ I'm sure you will recover and win the match, let's open this gold again ❣️
LOL, the four seasons gold💛 is dry 🤣.
Good morning, Kojo 😃.
I'm so glad that you like the aroma of ripe fruit 😌 and not the sweet! I guess that means the fragrant dry type = the one we like 😍I want to drink it and scream keen 🤩 ‼️
Hina Hana Mama
Good morning 🚶.
I started walking last night 🚶I was feeling so good that I decided to jog the last 500m and it still didn't work 😅 lol The Four Seasons Gold seemed more classical than the other Colors...
Pon-chan.
Good morning 😅I also prefer Sensation 🤩especially Nama Sake 🤩so I was "ki~n" because I found gold Nama Sake 🤣 lol Shiki Theatre is hit or miss, I like Colors 🤩.
Mr. Jay & Mrs. Nobby
Good morning...
I too imagined the taste to be sweet and fruity from the aroma, but was surprised to find that it was not what I expected! It is more classical than the other Sensation flavors.
Here is another Emishiki that I finally came across!
Cute label. Yamada Nishiki. Nama Moto. Good words are lined up.
The first sip. Sourness, sweetness, and bitterness come together! It has a slight sense of nama-moto.
The cosiness is great, too.
1,595 yen- including tax
It's been a long time since I've had a laugh four seasons.
It's still delicious 😋.
I tried the oyster lickety-split for the first time.
It was so delicious!
I was going to have a small drink, but
I was going to drink it in small sips, but I drank it in big gulps...
Jay & Nobby.
It was my first time to see oyster lickety-split too!
It was really delicious!
I thought, "I'm going to drink this, aren't I? I was like, "I'm going to drink this, aren't I?
