Smooth and round, with the gentle sweetness of white grapes and low acidity, it goes down smoothly. The corkage is slight, but accents the bitterness. 😋
A gentle and kind beautiful sake. The label is also nice. 🐈️🐈️
I was exhausted after my first 30k jog in a long time in strong winds, but I limped to get it at Ito Sake Shop in Rakurakudai.
We finished with three kinds of sake on this day, too.
The manager brought a bottle of Hishiko Orikarami!
I used to drink this at Fukurokuju-san during this season!
The rice polishing ratio was 45% in 2021, but last year and this year, it was changed to 50% without our knowledge, even though it calls itself "jun-dai"!
Here is another one!
It has a big "shuwa shuwa" feeling!
Just the right amount of "orikara" (dryness).
It also has the freshness of new sake!
We had a second helping of this one.
Surprisingly, we drank less sake than the other day!
There were some more sakes I wanted to try, but let's call it a night!
It was snowing so hard that I was worried about walking on the snow-covered roads.
Let's keep the taci spring rolls as a souvenir and eat them at the hotel tomorrow morning!
Thanks for the service 🤭.
I promised to serve the sake I got in Morioka as a New Year's gift to the guests after the New Year.
(We visited Fukurokuju again for lunch to check out the sake selection and to secure a table.)
my extensive knowledge of sake
Alcohol 16 degrees
Sake degree -1
Acidity 1.5
Ingredient rice: Yamashu No. 4 (Yamagata Prefecture)
Polishing ratio 50%.
Thanks for your time. Here it is tonight.
In the Heisei era, I drank Mine-no-Hakubai the most among the three Niigata plums, but this is the first time for me to drink Hishiko. The mild aroma is pleasant in a refreshing way. The label is nice.
Hishiko Junmai Ginjo Akiagari
Mine-no-Hakubai Shuzo (Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture)
After enjoying the hot spring atmosphere at Sangayu Onsen♨️ element, have a drink here 🍶😊 in preparation for work tomorrow.
Let's get right to it. The nose has a very clear acidity. The moment you take it into your mouth, it has a dry feeling in the beautiful mouthfeel, but with a hint of rice sweetness, it spreads a clear sake-like umami flavor.
Serve it with sardines with mirin dried rice wine. The unique flavor of blue fish combined with the crispness of this sake makes it even more delicious. It has a different taste from the sweet and tasty type 👍.
Rice polishing ratio] 60
Alcohol content】15度
Sake degree] +10 degrees
Pickles] Sardines grilled with mirin
Price including tax】1,485 yen
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We are going to try "Seri nabe" 🎉🎉!
This is my first time this season.
I started coming to Sendai about 3 years ago.
There are many delicious foods in this area, but this is one of my favorites.
Here is the sake that came along with it 😳
It has a sweet taste but also has a sharpness to it.
Hinai chicken soup with duck stock 🦆.
The crispy root of Japanese parsley, seri nabe is delicious!
The taste is not dry and refreshing, as is typical of Niigata sake, but rather has a firm and calm taste. However, it still has a nice sharpness, so it was easy to drink. It was delicious.
The bottle was opened and the aroma was delicious.
When the bottle was opened, it was fragrant.
No aroma after a while
The mouthfeel is clean and soft.
Like well chilled mineral water.
There is almost no scent in the nose.
It is dry but soft.
Is other Hishiko like this?
As always, a cosy and easy to drink drink drink.
Aftertaste like Andes melon 🍈.
Just not as impactful as the last time I drank it 🤔(maybe I have a cold...)
We usually drink a bottle of sake, but this day was a rare occasion for us to compare with Kawakame 🤗.
Our partner was Ryoko's first dry sake ‼️
I'll make love to you
The aroma is surprisingly fruity 😌.
The aroma is surprisingly fruity 😌 and when you take a sip, you'll be surprised! It tastes like THE sake🍶😋, but maybe it's because I still have some of Kawakame's peculiarity on my tongue🤔, it feels very heavy😓I stopped after about 1/3 of the bottle this day✋.
The next day, I had it first to reconfirm the taste of Hishiko!
It was a completely different experience from the first day, it was like a dry sake with a strong aroma 😋 and a delicious food sake 😚.
I guess the order of drinking is important 🤔.
😅I bought a bottle of this one along with the Keiraku Nagosasake because it was too expensive 😊.
I think most dry sake is reasonably priced, isn't it?
By the way, yesterday I had my blood drawn for my regular checkup 🥲I went without alcohol on Tuesday and Thursday this week and drank beer🍺 on Wednesday, but now the results are...
🎊No problems with my numbers, including liver function 🤗Maybe this will shorten the period of sobriety before my physical exam next year again 😄.
And..! Tonight is the first Tochigi Prefectural Meeting since March, a whopping 8 months ago: ‼️
I'm ready for a walk and now I'm off to have some fun 👋!
Hi Jay & Nobby😃Good to hear that your regular checkups are fine! Maybe the daily walking is good for you 👍You can enjoy drinking again this year 😆Tochigi-Kenmin-Kai sounds like a lot of fun: ❣️
Good evening, Jay & Nobby 😃.
The order in which you drink and the food you eat with it is very important 🧐.
I've recently come to understand that that makes a big difference to the taste impression 😅.
The Tochigi Pref. party sounds like fun 🍶🍻.
Good evening, Dr. Jay and Mr. Nobby.
Mr. Hishiko and Collage-kun are President Miyazumi's ......
That's quite a sake 🍶☺️❣️
Thank you for the checkup‼️ and the future of sake life is getting brighter and brighter 😀✨.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the 🙇♂️Please enjoy the meeting ❣️
Good evening, Jay & Nobby.
The order is important. I often find that if I drink them alone on a different day after comparing them, I have the same feeling of "what the heck? I often have a problem with that.
I'm sure you will have a good time drinking at the prefectural meeting after the medical checkup and walking 😊.
Good morning, Jay & Nobby 😀.
I often feel the difference in taste depending on the order in which we drink the drinks 😅 we have 3 or 4 drinks together every day 😅.
By the way, I hope you had a good time drinking at the prefects' party😇.
Sake-no-wa drinking parties are the best😇
Hi Hina Hana Mama 😃.
Yes, I'm still waiting for my physical next spring! I still have a physical exam next spring 😅I think I can push on with my drinking activities until then 🤗Tochigi-Kenmin-Kai is a fun and friendly group 😊.
Hi shinsaku3 😃
It's hard to compare drinks including pairings 🤔 we don't usually do that 😅.
The Tochigi people's group is a lot of fun 😚Next time, how about a business trip to Utsunomiya 🤗.
Hi Muro 😃
I didn't know that Hishiko and 寫楽 are connected in a way 😳I'm so glad you're here, Dr. Muro! You know so much ‼️ I had too much to drink last night 😅I had a lot of fun 🤗Have fun next time 🤗How about next time?
Hi ma-ki-😃
Sometimes it really is a different drink 🤔.
I had so much fun at the prefects meeting that I lost track of the pace😅I'm concentrating on recovering from my hangover today😆.
Hi Yasbaye 😃
Yasbaye-san, the drinking master, seems to be enjoying the difference too 🤗 We had a great time with each other offline on the same day, East and West 😄.
Mr. Jay & Mrs. Nobby
Good evening...
I'm glad your checkup results were uneventful! It's a result of your daily walking and taking a day off from drinking 👍It's true that dry sake is reasonably priced! I wonder if the rice polishing ratio makes a difference in the amount of sake produced 🤔.
This is the first time I've seen Hishiko with this label.
It was very refreshing.
We were almost done for the day.
We finished up the day with a comparison of the takachiyo we had poured more than we should have.
knowledge of the brewing process
Alcohol 16 degrees
Sake degree ±0
Acidity 1.5
Ingredient rice Domestic rice (undisclosed)
Polishing ratio 60
