This will be a new sake from Shiga's Hatsuzakura🍶.
This is the first Junmai sake from Hatsuzakura.
The aroma is sweet and sour with a moderate nose.
In the mouth, it has a sweet and sour aroma and a sweet and umami taste of rice with the acidity of a junmai sake like Hatsuzakura, which is a pure sake with a traditional sake yeast yeast yeast.
In general, it is a bit like a lighter version of Hatsuzakura, a sake made from the same yeast as the original.
It was easy to drink and delicious.
The initial aroma is sweet with a hint of acidity.
In the mouth, the beautiful acidity of the sake's yeast yeast, gentle sweetness, and the delicious taste of rice.
I have had Hatsuzakura several times, but it is delicious with the acidity that is typical of a sake yeast yeast yeast yeast.
Junmai 🍶Harakusyu fast fire 🔥Sake for the summer heat🍉Mizukagami🌾.
Sour and squeaky 😆Summer sake-like dry and refreshing ✨Pears on the back side of sharpness🍐Great with ethnic shrimp cheese spring rolls🍤👍
Umi and @Takadanobaba 20230912
Shiga Local Sake Festival in Otsu 2023 (7)
Toshihiko Yasui Sake Brewery / "Hatsuzakura" Koka City, Shiga Prefecture
Founded in 1884, well water from the Suzuka mountain range subsoil.
Taro-san, the sixth generation, participates in sake brewing, brews New Hatsusakura, and designs the label.
The label was designed by Taro, who is the sixth generation of brewers.
The specifications are said to be different from those in the photo, but it is a gentle sake, easy to drink, and has a light "nama-hashiroshi" feel to it.
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Aged at room temperature for 3 years. It is a collaboration sake with Hata Shuzo. It is surprisingly gentle and has no sake-like sensation. It has a warming feeling as if it soaks into your body.
Yamada Ginjiro.
This one is also different from the specs in the picture, but they said it was aged for 6 years. Almond aroma from the nose. It has a very strange sweetness and umami taste.
I was quite impressed with this brewery. It is not fruity, but more like an austere, smoldering structure. It is not flashy, but it is a sake that gently accompanies you, but also makes a strong statement.
Good evening, Nemuchi-san. Hatsuzakura is delicious 😋I can't forget the shock of sweet and sour taste when I met Mr. Taro's New Hatsuzakura. Ah, I want to drink it!
Hi Hirupeco, good evening 🌛You're my favorite type of person 😁It sure is shocking 🤯I keep saying "wow..." when I drink it! Gentle! Amazing!" I was calling out 🤣Taro is so kind 🍀.
I was quite impressed with Hatsuzakura because each of the three types of sake I drank was delicious😊Shiga sake is a small brewery that makes solid sake, and I realized that there are a lot of sake that I like 😋.
☆4.0
Aroma with a raisiny flavor.
The acidity comes with a strong and crisp flavor.
I like it because it has a core with a body and a slow flavor.
The name "Taro" is also good.
Raw rice and Nipponharu rice used for rice.
It was R1BY!
Slightly savory aroma, thickening, umami, and acidity like dried fruit.
Somehow, the ones that have been laid down for more than 3 years have an old sake-like feel to them (this is my personal impression).
Personally, it makes me think that I still prefer the fresh one.
I don't buy it by looking at the label on the back that closely.
(Sometimes the brewing year is not written on the label.)
It's a little heavy. I was drinking Laughing Four Seasons during this time (I'll report on that later), so it feels even heavier.
Interesting!
They are serving the raw yeast brewed by his successor, Taro, as "Namahashitaro".
I drank a limited edition of Tamakae, which is a kamishigashitaro, at a liquor store in Hikone, and it was quite tasty with a slight nigori taste.
The label has a retro taste, but it is a summer version.
It has a slightly sweet aroma of rice and a pear-like freshness. Cream soda.
Sweet and thick with a slightly bitter aftertaste. Sweet and sour, but it flows smoothly and smoothly. Delicious!
You can count on it, Taro 😍.
I visited three sake breweries along the Tokaido Highway in Koka City, Shiga Prefecture during my Bon vacation.
This is not my first visit to Shiga sake, but I'm looking forward to it since I haven't been able to explore the area much...
First up was Hatsuzakura. I had bought some at a nearby roadside station, Ai no Tsuchiyama, but this time I went to the brewery.
I was greeted by Tobita-kun, Shiga's famous pop-up boy 😬.
This small brewery uses locally grown rice to brew their sake.
The lineup includes both fire-brewed and unpasteurized versions. Some of the bottles were 7 years old!
The first was a special junmai (pure rice) draft made with Shiga Prefecture's royalty, Tamakae.
I'm curious about the particularity of mixing only 7% with other rice!
It's R2BY, so it's been laid down for about 2 to 2.5 years.
The aroma is strongly alcoholic, but with a hint of apple.
The acidity is umami but clean and dry. The impression is polite and clean.
It is the type of sake that enhances its umami when used as a food sake.
White bitter melon for the first time (left side) ‼️Potage soup with green peppers 🎵At my friend's favorite izakaya with lots of vegetables ❤️We had a lot of sake from Shiga Prefecture 😁💨💨We love heating sake even in summer 🎵Whether it was hot or cold 🎵It was delicious 👍️😋And again, more details in "Makiko no saké" 😁💨
pyonpyon, thanks for the Shiga sake 😊.
I've been curious about the label but haven't tried it yet💦I'll try heating it up if I ever drink it👍I didn't know there was a white one for bitter melon😳.
Good morning, pyonpyon 😃Thank you for your drunken company at the offline meeting 😅White bitter gourd has appeared on our table. It seems it can be made into a salad and it was delicious with more moisture 😄.
Good morning, Pon-chan! This store had a lot of sake from Shiga prefecture ❤️ The labels are designed in such a way that you can't help but pick them up 🎵White bitter melon, I looked it up on the internet and it really is a pure white fruit and doesn't look like a vegetable 😅.
Good morning, Wakata-san! Wakata-san wasn't drunk at all - he was talking well at 👍️😃You already knew about white bitter melon ✨It's easier to eat than the green one 😋.
Just because of how much you have done for them,
It's just selfishness to ask them to do the same for you.
Drinking is something you do for yourself, don't bring any calculations, payback, or other troublesome things into it. It's as if everything you do has another purpose, and everything in this world is disgusting.
If you love something, you love it, and you should carry that feeling through to the end. If you can't do that, you should disappear. It's just unsightly.
I worked so hard. So please buy me a lot of drinks. Don't expose your miserable appearance any more like a debt collector holding a guarantee that doesn't exist.
If you can't drink alcohol just because you like it, then you're done, aren't you? Thank you God🙏.
I drank a little last night.
We started with Hatsuzakura's summer sake.
I heard that the heir of Yasui Brewery named the sake he is making "Namahashitaro".
The first aroma is a modest sweet aroma.
In the mouth, there is a gentle acidity from the sake yeast and the sweetness and richness of the rice.
Compared to last month's sake, it is a summer sake that is easy to drink.
It was delicious 🍶.
Junmai Ginjo Nama Sake🍶Hatsukoi💕Tamaei 93%🌾Yamada Nishiki 7%🌾 from Shiga Prefecture
A bit grassy. Sweetness and acidity. Sicilian lemon🍋😅I'd rather drink it slowly than sip it. I paired it with vinegared kohada and gari because of the sourness connection, but it's not like Hatsukoi💕😅.
The sea and @Takadanobaba 20230610
