My wife and I had it at a nearby restaurant. We started with a beer 🍺 and then had this sake cold. The glasses were ice cold, the sake was refreshing, reasonably priced, and very tasty.
Junmai sake, spring orikarami. I had a junmai ginjo of the same brand before, so I compared it to this one: it has the freshness of a nama-shu, but I could feel its strength. It is dry and crisp.
I enjoyed it with a macaroni salad with suridate mayo. (Suridane is a seasoning made by frying red pepper, sesame seeds, and Japanese pepper in oil, which originated in Shinshu.)
It has a soft and fluffy mouthfeel in the beginning, a firm rice flavor in the middle, and a clear and refreshing finish.
We enjoyed it with lotus root kinpira (fried lotus root with Japanese pepper), celery and mushroom marinated with herbs.
The aroma and sweetness are typical of Nanaken, but it is very refreshing compared to Nanaken's "Silk Taste".
I recommend it to those who do not like sake.