Hara Shuzo/Koshinohomare 90YELLOW Junmai Unfiltered Nama-shu
Rice used: Hazuki Minori (produced in Kashiwazaki City and Kariwa Village, Niigata Prefecture)
Polishing ratio: 90
Purchased at the Hara Sake Brewery's new sake festival.
The 90 (Kyumaru) series is made with 90% polished rice to take advantage of the local Kashiwazaki rice.
Hazukiminori is rice rice, not sake rice, but it has a fresh fruitiness like grapefruit or pineapple with a sweet acidity and a piquant gasiness.
It has a gorgeous flavor that can be enjoyed on its own, but the aftertaste is rather refreshing, so it is good as a mealtime sake without being boring.
There is a ginjo aroma, though it may be my imagination. When you drink it, it has a fizzy, fresh feeling, and when you taste it closely, it has a sweetness and a slight braniness, so the sharpness is not so good. However, it was so good that I wondered if only 90% of the sake had been cut down. It was so delicious that I thought it was a good sake.
Buy at your regular liquor store✨
They don't usually carry Koshinohomare so I don't get many chances to buy it, but the sake 🍶 I had before was delicious so I bought it👍.
This sake is Junmai Daiginjo, but it has a strong flavor? I don't know if "strong" is the right word to describe it, but it's delicious with a rich umami flavor 😋.
And the bottle was supposed to be opened yesterday, but it's already almost empty 🤣.
I think my husband drank more of this than I did 🤭.
It's sweet and insanely fruity.
Maybe melon or something.
The second day is more flavorful.
Slightly effervescent.
The aftertaste is a little bitter.
There is no tartness, but the aroma is sweet.
Good taste. It was a delicious sake.
When I drink alcohol with my students, I am sometimes told that sake is a punishment. Sake with this punishing taste, I understand. So it's not no good, and that's why people love it, and I think there are sake that inherit that kind of taste and those that don't (seeking a different place from there).
And this sake has a little bit of the sake that takes over the old taste. But I wonder if that feeling will fade as I continue to drink it. I am not a fan of so-called traditional sake because I like sake with a wine-like taste, but as I continue to drink sake, I am able to drink any kind of sake. I find that so-called old-fashioned sake tastes better when paired with food. So today I had oden with fried bean curd stuffing.