Katsuyama Densen Junmai Daiginjo.
This series was given to us as a farewell gift.
We will be serving Katsuyama, the pride of Sendai, to go with the Date no Shintan that we bought on our trip to Sendai.
The highest quality Yamada-Nishiki produced in Mirai, Hyogo Prefecture, is polished to 35% and slowly pressed in bags before being stored in ice.
It has a clean, clean, clean sake quality with an aroma of apples and muscats, but it also has a thick texture that wraps around the tongue and a rich umami flavor.
It has a good balance without losing out to the umami-filled cores!
Alcohol content: 16%.
Gin-no-Iroha
Polishing ratio: 50
At a sake meeting in Tokyo.
This was the first time I drank sake made from this sake rice.
The aroma is a mellow ginjo aroma.
The taste was dominated by the umami of rice and acidity.
The aftertaste was clean and clear, giving the impression of a dry sake.
This one is gorgeous. It is mildly fruity, with a good balance of sweet, spicy and acidic tastes, and a sense of transparency. It finishes with a gentle astringency. Yamada Nishiki. With Shellfish Sashimi
Quite an expensive sake - such a small one already costs you 3000yen! It is due to its manufacturing method - firstly Junmai Daiginjo with a rice polishing ratio of 35% and also the use of centrifuge method. It is clean and transparent, together with the rice and fruity sweetness. Crispy as well. I would say it is a good sake, but whether rit worths the money is another question :)