Part 1: 2025 Amateur Sake Tasting Championship Ueda Preliminary Round
Part 2: Talking about Ueda's Sake with Tasting Sake Brewers 2025: Ueda's 6 Breweries All Together
I can hear the footsteps of the busy season 😅
I've been preemptively planning and working on 3 tasks at the same time, and I've lost my mind, so I'm going to have a glass of wine and regain my composure 🍶.
Wada Ryu Tosui Shinshu Secret Sake Hanpukai 2025 Gold Course
[A glass.]
Slightly green apple-like? The aroma of rice is calm, the mouthfeel is smooth and tasty, and the taste is clean and soft, with a punchy alcohol taste and a strong bitterness at the end.
[Mokkiri.]
Soft and fruity aroma of rice, a refreshingly cool umami taste, and a soft aftertaste.
The fresh, soft, easy-drinking mouthfeel and lingering aftertaste are inversely proportional to the freshness and softness typical of Shinshu sake, and the rather punchy aftertaste is addictive.
As we could not get Shinshu salmon, we had smoked Fukui salmon and cold shabu-shabu (cold shabu-shabu).
The smoky flavor of the salmon and the cold shabu-shabu with two different sauces were both delicious and intoxicating 😋.
All right! Now that I'm feeling better, I think I'll go for it this weekend, which is completely over my capacity and the spec limit of my equipment 🤣.
Fourth one.
I watched the last episode of [GQuuuuuuuax] on [Amapura] this season [📺️] in real time because it just coincided with my return home time.
There are many opinions, but I personally think it was an intoxicating work 🥰.
Hi Jive 😃
I see that your busy season is approaching 💦It sounds like a lot of work, but I'm sure Jive-san will finish the task perfectly! Have a drink and recharge your batteries 💪 Good luck with your work this weekend 📣.
Good evening, Mr. Jive!
After a brief respite, you're back in the swing of the busy season 💦.
That's when you need a good drink 🎵.
The heat will be getting hotter and hotter, so it's important to refresh yourself with a drink 😁✨✨.
Hi Jive 😃.
Those are footsteps you don't want to hear 😅It's great that you can make a preemptive strike yourself at a time like that👍.
Don't work too hard 😌Good luck looking forward to a good drink 👋
Hi Manachy ☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀.
The pacing was pretty good for a very drunken and quick watch 🥰.
It ended nicely and I hope to see more of it in the future as it's balanced enough to make a sequel ✨.
Hello, HinaHanaMama!
With the end of our service time since the beginning of the fiscal year, we are in a marathon from here until the end of the fiscal year 🏃.
I will be taking a break periodically 🥰.
Hi, ma-ki-chan!
I can only sigh because I already have a lot of work until the end of the year 😅.
While I'm busy, I've had pretty good luck with alcohol this year, so I'm going to open the drunken sake I got ✨.
Hi Jay & Nobby!
I'm trying to get what I can done done because if I don't get it done early, I'll be stuck soon 😅.
Still, it's going to be another tough battle this year as more and more things are piling up 🤣.
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A good sake with a slightly matured but firm texture.
It's a bit of a queue after a light sake, but before you know it, it's gone!
A full-bodied sake!
Wada Ryutosui
Sweet and sour, fruity aroma.
Maybe the most unusual of the three...
Umami and pungent/bitterness. Yesterday I thought it was sweet...
And a long aftertaste. The taste gradually expands 😊.
Japanese sake
Ingredients: Rice (domestic), Rice malt (domestic)
Alcohol content: 16%.
The next day I ate dinner early because I had to be at the gym from 8:00 a.m.
On such a day (what kind of day?) Wada Ryu Tosui is my favorite accompaniment for such a day (what kind of day?). It is usually served as an unfiltered, unpasteurized sake, but this time, it is said that it is fire-aged. So it is black, unlike the usual white label. It's perfect for my black-hearted self.
So I was a bit surprised to find a sour taste when I sipped it, thinking it would be sweet like the usual taste. But it is very tasty with a refreshing aftertaste.
On Friday, it was suddenly decided that I would be going to Nagano tomorrow, and while I was rushing around getting a hotel and preparing for a meeting, I forgot something 😢 I'm going to the office in the afternoon.
Wada Ryutosui Shinshu Secret Sake Hanpukai 2025 Gold Course.
The second bottle of the Shinshu Secret Sake Hanpukai for May is a special blended sake from Wada Ryutosui, a first-time customer. The sake is usually unfiltered, unfiltered, and unadulterated, but they dared to fire-brew it.
It has a mild aroma with a hint of roasted nuts and a soft mouthfeel with a rich alcohol content that is hard to believe it is 16%. You can enjoy the rich depth of flavor.
It is a taste that is not normally associated with drinking, but it is an exquisite marriage with the acidity of uzaku!
After a week of drinking, the taste becomes more rounded.
When served warm, this is a great answer, and the mild and gentle flavor is spurred on!
It is fruity, slightly complex, and has a solid alu-ness that gives the impression of being sharp in the second half.
It says it's 16 degrees, but the experience seems to be more. It feels dry because of that.