Today my wife is going to Umeda to celebrate my birthday.
We had lunch at Ishizuki, a handmade buckwheat noodle restaurant in Grand Front Osaka.
The waitress was kind and we had a pleasant lunch!
The third picture was brought to me by the waitress who guessed that I like Japanese sake!
So, what I had at Ishizuki was my first sake brewery, Asamai Shuzo's Amano-no-do!
This time it was Junmai Daiginjo 45!
Let's have it right away!
First, the aroma. It has a refreshing aroma with a hint of alcohol.
When you put it in your mouth, you can feel the refreshing alcohol taste and sweetness, and it finishes nicely with a full-bodied flavor.
There is also a sense of fruity flavor.
The lingering aftertaste is clean, gentle and slightly bitter, and it is very easy to drink.
It has a traditional sake taste, but also sweet and fruity, which is something I have not tasted recently, but it gives me a very beautiful impression.
When paired with a meal, it also showed a crisp expression, making it a very tasty sake!
Good evening, ma-ki-😊.
Happy Birthday 🎉.
I have had Amano-do junmai sake with warmed sake 🤩.
It is also a delicious sake 😊.
You should give it a try: ☝️
Good evening, ma-ki-!
Happy Birthday to ㊗️ 🥳🎂
You had a great time with your usual restaurant reviews 🥰 and love with your wife 💖.
I envy you as always ❣️
Thank you Kano!
We have a Junmai sake that won the gold medal in the National Heated Sake Contest ⤴️
I'm looking forward to trying heated sake this winter, so if I discover it, I'll be sure to bring you along and try some heated sake too 🤗.
Thank you, Mr. Muro!
Yes, I am so glad you enjoyed your time with us! Once again, lunch, my favorite yakitori restaurant, and shopping while there was a great time😍.
I can only thank my wife ❣️
I'm sorry to say I'm jealous, but it was a great time 🤗.
Good morning, ma-ki-😃
Happy Birthday🎊㊗️
Your soba noodles look delicious...and the oysters? The oyster looks like it will enhance the heavenly door even more 😋👍.
Thank you very much, FUKU!
I was in the mood for some hot soba yesterday, so I decided to have oyster soba as you said 🎵.
Yes, I was ready to have sake too ⤴️, so I decided to go with oysters 😋.
Hi, ma-ki-!
Happy Birthday🎉!
Soba and sake is a really nice combination😍.
I bet all the fun you had with your wife makes the taste even more special 😊.
Thank you, Yuki!
Soba and sake is also quite my favorite pairing, it's delicious 😋.
The time with my wife is the most relaxing, so it was truly a special time for the two of us to have delicious Soba and Sake together 🤗.
Hi, ma-ki-chan 😃!
What is this Soba noodles 😳There are so many plump oysters! Soba, oysters, and Amanoto-san all seem to go together perfectly👍Well, I'm sure you can't compare to the chemistry between ma-ki-san and his wife 🥰.
Hew hew hew!
Thank you, Jay & Nobby!
I was in the mood for warm soba this time, so I decided to go with a winter version of oysters that would go well with sake 😋.
It was a perfect match for the Amanoto, but not even close to Jay & Nobby's 😁.
This junmai ginjo is brewed with Ichihozumi, a sake rice developed by Akita Prefecture.
The ginjo aroma spreads gently and the rice has a delicious flavor. The latter half of the bottle has a refreshing, crisp taste.
It was a perfect match with nabe dishes.
Amanoto's light nigori junmai ginjo.
I got too drunk at a kaku-uchi and bought it on the spur of the moment.
I didn't drink it at the kaku-uchi. It was the first time I opened the bottle.
Yes, it has a freshly-squeezed feel. It has acidity, but is sweet overall.
It kills in a blink of an eye.
Rice: Hoshiakari
Rice polishing ratio : 50
Alcohol content : 14.7
Sake Degree : -3.1
Acidity : 1.7
Love the back label “This sake is filled with that desire. Rice painstakingly grown by farmers is polished to 45%, and the sake is carefully pressed in an old-fashioned vat before being bottled using spring water from the brewery (Biwanuma Cold Spring).” As much as I like this, can’t imagine living in Akita, too cold.
Purchased at the antenna shop in Wing at Shinagawa.
Purchased at a liquor store near Chidori Station
Drink cold.
Slightly yellow in color but not cloudy
Weak mature aroma with a savory flavor.
Slight ginjo aroma in the back.
Strong rice flavor and sweetness spreads on the palate.
A slight dryness slowly passes through the nose.
The aftertaste leaves a richness in the mouth.
It goes well with stewed beef and salty cheese.
It is good with slightly light-flavored herring roe to refresh the palate.
To be served lukewarm
The aroma has a strong smell of alcohol.
The strong dryness spreads with the delicious taste of rice and leaves your nose at once.
Heat it up
The smell of alcohol remains, but the aroma of the sake itself is not lost.
The flavor is less broad and punchy than lukewarm.
As the label on the back says, it tastes best lukewarm, but compared to cold sake, it is easier to serve with herring roe, etc.
I flinch for a moment when I hear that the temperature is 19 degrees, but I take it while drinking lots of soothing water. It is delicious! The alcohol is not so strong, and the flavor and aroma of rice and the crisp, dry taste are good. We served it with vinegared wasabi stems, tofu paste with persimmon and greens, char-grilled duck, and croquette soba noodles. Alcohol content 19%, rice polishing ratio 60%.
I was curious about the label.
It's kind of cool, isn't it?
Of the three cups of Yamanaka-san's today
the color and taste were the darkest.
After putting it in my mouth
After taking a sip, there was a change in the taste. There was a change in the taste.
The result is a refreshing taste.
It was like when I drank Houyo from the Mukai Shuzo brewery in Kyoto.
Limited edition Junmai Ginjo Hiyoroshi
I like the mellow mouthfeel after letting the bottle sit for a while after opening.
Rice used: Miyamanishiki
Rice polishing ratio: 50
Sake degree: +1.5
Acidity: 1.9
Yeast used: AK-1
Alcohol percentage: 16.3
Izumiya Shiro
Junmai sake from Amano-do. This is a light, easy-to-drink sake that can be easily paired with meals.
Ingredient rice: Akita rice
Polishing ratio 65
Sake degree +3
Acidity 1.8
Alcohol content 15.5
Izumiya Shiro
Junmai Ginjo made with Ichihozumi sake rice produced in Akita Prefecture. Ichihodzumi's parents are listed on the back of the label. It is a cross between Niigata's Koshitanrei and Akita Sakekomachi.
It has a slightly spicy, refreshing taste.
Rice used: 100% Ichihodzumi from Akita Prefecture
Polishing ratio 50%.
Alcohol content 16%.
Izumiya Shiro
☆☆☆☆☆
Frog label
Is it a little greenish? Maybe it's the green of the bottle...
Complex acidity and bitterness enhance the flavor.
Frog's awakening feeling? But it tastes like something awakened!