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A belated Happy New Year ㊗️
Finally our HP has recovered: ❤️🩹
At the time of the earthquake, I was preparing for an away-from-home relatives' banquet and had four oil heaters on and was frying fried chicken. Anyway, I moved to put out the fire, but the tremors were absurdly long and hard. I had to hold my breath during the shaking. The quake was intensity 5, but I don't think there was any damage. I hope those who were affected by the earthquake can return to their normal lives soon.
The away party will be held amidst the earthquake early warning. We had no choice but to drink, so we opened a bottle of this sake. It seems to be a sake from Saku. It is easy to drink, perfect for eating, and I gobbled it up. It was delicious 😋.
5.5 drinkers finished two bottles 🤣.
Well, this is how we will do it again this year.
Oh, I'm going to work so hard 💪.
Ane-san, Happy New Year 🎍That was a tough earthquake early in the New Year. It's great to have a party in the midst of it, though 😅Please give me your best wishes this year, too👍.
Ane, Happy New Year 🗻🦅🍆 and best wishes for the new year 🙇♀️⋆꙳You've been drinking quite a bit since the new year 😊Quite a feat ✨Work hard and go drink good alcohol🥳👍
Congratulations to Masaaki Sapporo🎍!
I guess it's because we gathered here. I was so tired of thinking about everything that I decided to start drinking in the middle of the meeting😅.
I'm looking forward to working with you 🤲.
Congratulations, Maecin-san 🎍.
I didn't drink any water and fell asleep in the bath afterwards (what was I going to do when the aftershocks came?), but I didn't get a hangover: ✌️
I'm working from today~.
Happy New Year, Ane!
What a tough start to the New Year! I am glad that your relatives and Ane-san are safe.
Surely, we might have to have a banquet if we can ensure their safety...
I look forward to working with you again this year 🎍.
Congratulations Joe 🧧!
I don't know about aftershocks when I get drunk! I really wish you had broken up....
Nice to meet you too. My gym teacher recommends muscle training over pilates to me😅.
Misono" is a happy word that refers to the imperial family, and the name "Misono-take" is said to have been given by adding bamboo, the family crest of the Takeshige family.
Wow, I've aged my own sake at room temperature a few times (I just forgot), but it's rather rare for the brewer himself to do it.
The corners have been removed and it's very mellow. It is as thick and mellow as it claims to be. The slight sourness and sweetness are offset by the spiciness derived from the alcohol.
This is the 500,000,000,000th bottle of the One Cup One Pack Festival.
The second of two Goyon bamboo aluminum cups I bought at the Jujo Station liquor store.
They said the cans were filled in 2008, so they are quite colorful👍.
The subtitle of the bottle is marked "14 summer over".
It has a ripe and lustrous caramel-like flavor that matches the coloring from the years of aging.
Delicious 😋.
Hi...
I had this sake at a tasting and it was outstanding!
I didn't know they even have an aged version.
I remember all the products from this brewery were good!
Good evening, Mr. Shinjo😊.
This aluminum cup can over 14 years is a gem👍
We have a sake shop in the Jujo station shopping street that also has a selection of draft sake in addition to the aluminum cup cans in the store,
If you come to Saito Sake Shop, please visit us 👍.
I bought it at a liquor store in the Jujo Station shopping arcade.
Gyoen bamboo aluminum cup.
A masterpiece when it comes to sake in aluminum cans, the Funaguchi Kikusui can.
Rather than the freshness of the Kikusui can, it has a thicker, mellower flavor.
This Misonotake is another sake from Saku, Shinshu.
I went to Saku in May for the Kame no Kai brewery opening, but did not encounter this Misonotake.
I happened to win the drawing for the reception and got it.
I drank it at room temperature right then and there. I thought it would be dry since it is called "Kirekuchi," but it was a delicious sake with a sweet mellow taste.
It was a very good day for me to win such a delicious sake.
Along with the Aradama, we also had a large dry sake, also served cold. It is a very dry sake, but it had a polite taste. The flavor changed as the temperature gradually became tepid, but it was also delicious. The master recommended this sake not only as a cold sake, but also as a sake that can be served with anything, and he was right.
Takeju Honke Sake Brewery, purchased at the sake brewery opening event No. 2.
Aroma
Fruity ginjo aroma. It is not heavy and has a refreshing aroma. The main aroma is a refreshing sourness like green apple. There are also faint pineapple and peach-like sweet aromas.
Taste
Sweet on the palate. The first attack is a clear fruity sweetness like ripe pineapple.
It is very smooth and easy to drink. This sweetness is a tart one.
After the sake is in the mouth, sourness also appears, but this sourness is not so strong and enhances the aforementioned sweetness.
There is also a pungency through the nose, but it is not strong.
Summary
A delicious Junmai Daiginjo with a clean aroma and sweetness!
The "savory aroma" that we felt when we drank the 23-year-old aged Gyoonchiku sake we checked in with before is present in the sweetness of this Junmai Daiginjo and in the lingering aftertaste.
I think this savory sourness is the characteristic of Misonotake.
Daiginjo-shu brewed in 2000. The maturation period is 23 years.
I went to the opening of the Takeju Honke Sake Brewery in Nagano Prefecture to buy some.
It was the first time I had ever had sake that had been aged!
[Aroma.
It's not fruit. ！！！！ What is it...savory? (lacks vocabulary) It's a complex aroma. It smells like slightly burnt rice hulls. It's not smoky or smelly.
There is a cocoa-like sweet aroma that wafts along with a mild alcoholic aroma, and this is a dark caramel aroma. Some honeyiness. A hint of soy sauce.
It is easier to pick up the sweet aroma at room temperature than cold sake!
This is what you call an aged aroma! I imagined a fruity feeling from the name "Daiginjo," but it's not at all what I expected! The aroma is similar to the 90% rice polishing ratio sake "Katori" that I checked in before. But this old sake is not rough at all and has a more elegant image.
Taste.
This soy-sauce-like nuance is the acidity! (self-resolved).
There is a mild and complex acidity on the palate that I have never experienced before. But the texture is smooth and silky! It also has sweetness and umami. There is almost no pungency on the nose, and a mellow aroma wafts through the nose.
You can enjoy the acidity and umami that have changed with maturity! It was personally a very tasty aged sake!
Saku City and Ueda City Sake Breweries Event 4: A bottle of sake from the same Takeju-san's place as before. It has a strong aroma of rice and citrus fruits. When you drink it, you can taste the umami and acidity, and because the rice is Miyamanishiki, the aftertaste is also firm to some extent. It is easy to drink despite its high alcohol content (18%) due to the use of a traditional sake yeast yeast. The brewery recommends this as a hanami sake. I wondered what they meant by that, but it is not too sweet, and the acidity gives it a spring-like flavor. It is a sake that does not interfere with food. Of course, it would be perfect to drink it warmed up when it is a little chilly. I bought it as a souvenir for my father because I thought he would like the taste.
