Yay - it's fall 🍂😊.
It's the season for new sake!
The cellar is getting lonely so I went to Horiichi for new sake 😁.
First time to try Shichiken's first sake 😊.
Is the water indeed clean?
Beautiful sake 🍶😊😊😊😊
Honjozo is the result of saving money due to long trips to Yamanashi, Nagano, and Shizuoka.
However, it is sweet, sour, spicy, bitter, and astringent with a well-balanced sweet, sour, spicy, bitter, and astringent taste.
Drink it with horse-meat carpaccio from the same region and you will appreciate its deliciousness.
Sake, after all, goes best with local food.
Citiken Shoshu
When I opened it and drank it, it had a lemon and melon feel to it, and when I drank it, it was definitely orange and a little spicy.
Mukaihide is a limited edition of the brewery. It is named after the seven wise men.
It dates back to a pair of ranma (columns) of "Seven Wise Men of the Bamboo Grove" presented by Surugamori Naito of the Takato clan at the time of the founding of the brewery.
These ranma still remain in the main house of the Kitahara family, which was designated as "Gyozaisho" when the Meiji Emperor stayed there, and are the cultural asset from which the sake's name "Shichiken" was derived.
Drinking at home
Bought it without realizing it was sparkling lol
But it tastes even better than I imagined!
I guess it's not too sweet.
It says so on the label.
Lightly cloudy and the bubbles are so beautiful!
The following is a series of 10 sake that I enjoyed at one restaurant!
(Sake I drank two weeks ago)
First up! Shichiken!
My favorite shuwa shuwa type! ☺︎