Weekends are always a bit of a buzz ✨.
But the summer heat still hasn't settled in during the day, so I'm craving a fizzy, bubbly sake 🤤.
Well, today...I opened the first bottle of "Oku" which I had been curious about the label 🏷️ for a while but hadn't been able to buy it yet🍶.
The bottle label also has a stylish moon 🌙.
I'm excited from the description that it's slightly sparkling 🤣.
Then, let's get right to it....oooooh open 🍾...what is that?
What's that? It doesn't seem to have such a strong aroma 💧.
But I felt more like grape🍇❓ than pear🍐 as the description says🤔.
So, I'm going to try the top clear first 🙋.
Oh! This is a Fatty grape that's a bit drier 🍇.
It's similar to Takachiyo's grape... a taste that will leave you wanting more.
Next, stir and voila!
Yes, here it is... the stable and delicious one. The flavor and bubbles have become stronger... and even more drinkable 👌
There is a bit of bitterness and alcohol in the aftertaste, but it's not to the point where it bothers me.
If I were to write my personal favorite "tight" type from the dry type... Machida > Oku THE MOON > Takachiyo... ❗️
If you like Hiragana Takachiyo, I think it is definitely delicious 😁.
sake made from sake lees
Soft and full with a fluffy rice aroma
Fruity, soft sweetness, slightly bitter aftertaste
Easy to drink, although there is a slightly peculiar aroma mixed in.
Light young fruity sweet and sour flavor.
Not too assertive, but very pleasant sake that leaves a strong impression of beautiful sweetness and mildly lingering acidity.
Not too fresh, well balanced and very tasty!
4.50
Here is a bottle to accompany this evening. I wonder if it would go well with grilled kama-yaki (straw fish cakes). When the bottle is opened, it has a wonderful aroma of fresh pears. When you put it in your mouth, you can feel a strong fizz on your lips and the tip of your tongue. In the clear dry taste, there is sweetness and rice flavor, and a weak bitterness rounds out the overall balance. As the name suggests, it is best on a hot day! Because of the strong fizziness, I tried a glass of champagne, but it might kill the goodness of the sake because it increases the clean dryness and the bitterness is also stronger.
Fried green beans with salt and pepper. I love this. The sake gets sweeter and the sharpness of the sake makes the oil flow and I can't get enough of it! There's no reason why sardine ball sandwiched between home-grown shiso and grilled can't go with it, too. Sake, I can't stop. The kama-yaki (grilled fish balls) will enhance the flavor of the rice and turn it into a slightly heavier sake. This is also good. Crunchy ume plum pickled with salt. Salty and sour taste enhances sake. It might be the best match for sake.
Tonight, too, the night goes by with wonderful sake.
The first touch is naturally gaseous.
Then acidity, bitterness, a little sweetness, and a nice finish that quickly disappears as the gasiness fades away.
The overall taste is like a grapefruit sour, although the umami has a sake-like quality.
Dangerous to drink like a sour!
4.50
Purchased at Naritaya Sake Shop, Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture.
The aroma is quite fruity for a sake bearing the name "summer.
The taste is "slightly effervescent, easy to drink, and sharp with no lingering aftertaste.
It has no hint of sweetness, but there are certainly traces of sweetness. It is a bottle that has both the two weapons of "fruity freshness of the aroma and the freshness unique to summer sake" without any of the post-aging dryness of sweet sake imagined from the aroma.
As if the two have a master-disciple relationship, it has a sharpness reminiscent of Gagakuyo and a creamy fullness that can be felt as you drink it. The roots are the same, but I personally may prefer this one. It made me want to try a basic sake as well as a summer sake.
With this sharpness, I would have it with salmon halami.
Please try it.
Today's sunshine was bad.
In addition to lack of sleep, we worked outside under the blazing sun. I get out of breath as soon as I move a little. What was that? Was I really such a weak cuss?
It was a good thing that the work was finished before my body went into a thermal frenzy, but I wonder what would have happened if I had just kept going at a leisurely pace. After all, proper work management is important.
I can't drink until today because of work, so I'll tell you what I drank the other day.
Phew! The bottle was opened with a nice sound. The top-tasting aroma comes later. It has a gaseous feeling and a dry base, but it also has a strong umami flavor. The richness of the lees and the astringent taste are also delicious!
Please don't abuse me, I can't speak for myself!
〜I'm disappointed that it's been sunny lately!
Thank you very much for your hospitality!
Colonel Lal, good morning 🐥.
I wish it didn't have to be so sunny every day 😂It's dangerously hot, so please don't overdo it 🙏.
It looks and tastes cool 🎐I really soak up that drink at the end of the day 😊.
Pon-chan, good morning 😁.
It's already hot the moment I step outside to go to work 😓It's already atrocious in the morning, isn't it?
I can see why the number of emergency room visits is in the news every day 😩.
I can finally drink tonight! I'm looking forward to it!
