Rice sweetness.
Strong acidity. Bitter taste of alcohol remains at the end. The lack of ginjo aroma is good.
Not my favorite though.
It can be served with meals, but I don't think I will repeat it.
Tourist information center in front of Tsuruoka Station with a super concierge, who told us that the supermarket has an unbelievable selection of goods. The supermarket "Shufu no Ten" Ene Ekimae Store. As a sake brewer, I thought it would be important to post this article because I think it is also important to have a distributor who connects the brewer and the drinker as the bearer of saké.
I bought three bottles and will review them after I return home.
On this day, after a company event, I decided to go out for a drink with my office mates by the flow. As I recall, we asked them to leave the drinks to us, so many of the drinks were unknown to us. This was also my first time. Kameji" is the name of the discoverer of Kame-no-o. I also heard that Koikawa Shuzo put a lot of effort into brewing sake with Kame-no-o.
This junmai ginjo is brewed with 55% Kame-no-o from Shonai-machi, Yamagata Prefecture, the home town of the Koikawa Shuzo brewery, and all the ingredients are made with a focus on local production for local consumption, emphasizing the local sake flavor.
The sake rice is Kame-no-o, the ratio of polished rice is 55%, and the yeast is Yamagata NF-KA.
There is almost no sweetness, but the umami of the rice and the acidity stand out 👍No sharp sharpness, but a gentle clean and crisp feeling is impressive ✨.
It also looks good hot or lukewarm!
A sake that would go well with Japanese food such as yakitori.
This time, Koi River's Kameji Good Day.
Extra Edition. Sake from Yamagata Prefecture.
One day, my partner called me to tell me that he was at a sake shop and seemed to be at a loss as to what to buy as there were so many different kinds.
(I told him that he should decide for himself (since it would be my choice if I decide), and he was attracted by the label of Natsuko's sake and brought it back to me.
Koikawa is not my favorite after all😍.
This time the sake is a regular sake because it is brewed with kame-no-o rice, which was out of equilibrium due to last year's heat wave, but the specs say it is a junmai ginjo.
The color has a slight yellow tinge.
The initial aroma is caramel-like with a hint of herbaceousness.
At first, it was served at room temperature. The rice flavor flows smoothly with a gentle, caramel-like sweetness, and the dry taste is tightly capped by a herbaceous bitterness.
Warm it up to lukewarm,
The rice flavor becomes richer and the sake becomes rich and dry. Oh, it's so good!
When you hear that it has a Sake meter value of +11, you may think it is super dry, but it also has a richness of umami. But it is good that the richness of the umami can also be felt well 😊.
I need to review Natsuko's sake.
Jicchan, jicchan! 😭
Koikawa Shuzo Junmai Ginjo Kamejikohi 720ml
Rice : 100% Kame-no-o produced in Yamagata Prefecture
Rice polishing ratio : 55
Alcohol : 15.3
My wife entered this sake in a CS historical drama program and won it.
It is said that this sake brewery is related to the writer Shuhei Fujisawa.
This is also some kind of fate. Now, what does it taste like? It is quite classical. My wife said it was just fine. It is best to warm it up a little.