I went to Nagatoro ( Nagatoro), an attractive scenic spot that Saitama Prefecture is proud of, for the first time in 12 years👍.
It's wonderful with line rafting, shaved ice, and Hodosan shrine 😊.
It was quite crowded.
I also visited the Nagatoro-gura store.
Fire-aged Junmai Daiginjo 40% polished. 300ml bottle.
Smooth and highly polished taste within the normal image of sake.
Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi 🐦.
The weather is beautiful and the view is amazing ✨.
It's so hot today that I couldn't help but notice the delicious looking shaved ice😻
Hiraccio, good evening 😃.
Nagatoro is still hot and nice 😄I'm glad the weather is good☺️
Of course the sake at Nagatoro Kura is intoxicating, but the shaved ice🍧 at Asami Refrigeration is delicious with natural ice ☺️
Good evening Jay & Nobby😊.
Nagatoro is a good scenic and sightseeing spot.
Nagatoro is for line down and shaved ice.
Chichibu is also a good place to visit.
Chichibu has Sambine Shrine, soba noodles and hormone.
Nagatoro, Chichibu Nishiki, and Muko-Masamune.
Good evening, Pon 😊.
It was hot like summer 💦.
The weather was wonderful👍
Nagatoro is very famous for its natural ice shaved ice store called Asami Reizo, which is a great tourist attraction during the hot season.
Good evening, Aladdin😊.
I've been to the Kanasaki main store twice, and that natural ice 🧊 fluffiness is superb.
This time our family gave up on Azaami Refrigeration because it was too crowded, and we enjoyed it at a restaurant that uses Azaami's natural ice.
It was a gallery cafe called "Gallery Cafe Yamashita," a cafe with a tasteful Japanese style, and the shaved ice was delicious.
I highly recommend that you enjoy Azaami Reizo at least once, including the decorations of the main store,
It was a store comparable to the main shop.
I like to drink it cold!
I prefer it a little less sweet myself, but I love it ❤
The first sip has a fresh sweetness and acidity, and the flavor from the "sake brewery" overlaps with a light nigori-stained flavor. You can enjoy the light carbonation and fresh taste. The sake is unfiltered and unpasteurized after bottling, so you can enjoy the true flavor of sake.
From Matsuzaki Sake Brewery
Previously, I remembered it as a delicious sake with a sour taste.
This time, both smell and taste?
I am sure I have a poor sense of taste.
If I have a chance, I will try drinking it again.
Alcohol level: 15 degrees Celsius
Rice polishing ratio: Kake rice 60%, Koji rice 40
Rice used: 100% Saitama Prefecture sake Musashi
July 22nd: 8 days after opening the bottle
I paired it with dumplings filled with raayu (Chinese chili oil).
As usual?
It wasn't supposed to have this flavor.
I would like to buy it again!
The aroma is discreet and fresh. The mild mouthfeel is accompanied by a gaseous sensation that stimulates the tongue. The mild sweetness of nigori appears from the bitter acidity, which is somewhat like grapefruit, and gradually fades away.
The bitter acidity in the mellowness of the sake is accented by the bitter acidity, making it a delicious sake.
Saitama Prefecture Sake
I will drink it for the first time.
Sake rice: Saitama Prefecture sake Musashi
Polishing rice: 40% koji rice, 60% kake rice
Alcohol: 15 degrees Celsius
When you first take a sip, you will feel a fresh and shwarm mouthfeel.
Then came the tangy dryness and deep umami.
It is rare to find a heavy, heavy-bodied sake with a heavy mouthfeel. I thought it was a sake that could be enjoyed with any food.
This will be my first time in Nagatoro.
I would like to go to Chichibu to see the Ryusei Festival, and there are several sake breweries there as well 🤔.
The top aroma is sweet with a bit of strong acidity.
When you put it in your mouth, you can feel the gas and a little bit strong acidity with a refreshing sweetness.
It is a bit astringent, and the taste is very sharp.
Then there is a honey-like aroma with a hint of acidity.
Aladdin and Wakata wrote that it had a distinctive aroma like red chine, but I could not understand it well.
Maybe it was just because I was drunk😅.
I thought it was quite interesting because I like acidity.
It was delicious 🍶✨
Good evening, Matsuchiyo 😃.
In my case it was different from red chin too, so there might be some individual differences in the bottles 🤔.
Ryusei in Yoshida is nice ☺️ I have been there to see it too 🚀.
Good morning Aladdin 🌞.
Sorry Aladdin, you are a natto 😅.
I guess it's an individual difference 🤔.
I also feel that Shikishima has a peculiarity that I don't like.
On rainy days, it is best to stay home and have a drink.
Recently, I opened a bottle of Nagatoro, which some people at Sake-no-wa have been drinking, because we had some at home 😄.
The first sip was a bit strange. Wait, wait 🫸.
Second sip 💦.
The scent, which to me only smells like red tincture (for those of you who don't know me from my generation, when I was little I used to heal scrapes and scratches with a sticky coat of red tincture 😅) wanders through my nose and fades out.
If you ignore the red tincture, pear? Melon? A sweet fruit, if you can call it that. It ends with a crisp finish.
No, but the impact of this aroma is so strong that I can't describe it well😱.
Later on, Aladdin posted about another Nagatoro with a distinctive aroma, and I was convinced that this was indeed the case.
Of course, it was a red cocktail for me, but it seemed to go well with my husband's friend, and we finished it off with a delicious finish 😊.
Good morning, Wakata 😃.
This is it!
Red ting 😄is it iodine scent 🤔?
Like Shikishima, there seems to be many people who don't mind it at all, so there may be various fragrance components that vary from person to person in sensation 🤔.
Hi Aladdin😃Yes, this is it‼️Arabashiri🍶Aladdin's analysis has lightened my mind a lot, thank you😊Individual sensory components, sounds profound✨This is a topic I could write a paper on 🤔.
Hi Waka 🐦.
I saw Aladdin's and thought wow, and Waka's too 😳It's hard to separate the aroma from the taste 💦I'd like to smell it, let alone drink it 😁.
Hello, Wakata 😃.
Nagatoro! I've never had it 🥲I'd like to try it to see how it feels 🤗.
Maybe this is 🤔 a magic drink 🍶 that will help you when you have an abrasion on your heart 🥹Mercury Red Chin 🤣.
Hi Jay & Nobby 😃Merchen Akachin Nagatoro, too nice 🤣✨I guess my heart wasn't worn out enough yet to ask for merchen akachin. Nagatoro is a good drink for a broken heart. I'll have to try it.
Second drink at standing drinking CHUIN after a long time.
We had a sake from Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture 🍶.
Nagatorogura Junmai Ginjyo Nama Nama Naru Nakadori.
The appearance is a pale, very faintly cloudy silver-green.
It has a characteristic natto-like aroma 😳, followed by caramel, pear-like aroma and a slight cemedine smell.
Natto is forbidden in sake brewing, so it shouldn't smell like that, but there was some characteristic fermentation aroma 🤔.
I wanted to discuss it with the owner, Mr. Kawada, but the restaurant was busy that day and he seemed busy, so I decided not to.
The palate is smooth and refreshingly sour.
The soft sweetness flows smoothly and the light acidity spreads quickly.
After the mid-palate, the lingering bitter astringency lingers roughly on the tongue as the acidity passes through the nose.
I feel that Nagatoro-gura sake always has some kind of characteristic aroma or taste.
I must try drinking it at home.
With these thoughts in mind, I moved on to the next sake.
Hi Aladdin 😃I totally agree with you about the characteristic aroma: ‼️ I drank another color of Nagatoro the other day, but the surprising aroma stopped me 💦I guess everyone feels something unique about this warehouse 🤔.
Good morning, Wakata 😃.
I knew there was something there! I'm glad I'm not the only one: ☺️
It was something different from Shikishima, something with a distinctive aroma... 🤔.
I'd love to take the time to analyze it over a drink at home, but it's hard to find in Kansai 😌.
I had it at the store a while back and thought it was delicious.
I found Nagatoro at a liquor store 💡 spot seems to be in stock 🤘.
The last one I drank was Jungin Nama, and this time it is a light nigori.
I'm not sure about the French word on the back label, but it probably stands for something white. I won't try to look it up 🤣.
White....is that a word sake brewers often use, maybe snow? Is it the wrong time of year 🤣.
The aroma is cooked rice + a bit milky. It's not that strong so it's ok, but if the aroma is too strong, it might be too strong 🤣?
I like the light stimulation from the chili gas!
The sweetness is like a snack food, and a little bit of graininess comes through from the nose. The acidity is green apple-like? The aftertaste is a bit bitter and astringent. The throat is a bit like Yakult.
It is a niche flavor that is both modern and classical.
It's delicious, but it's a very different taste. ‼️ It would be better if it had a little more quirkiness and a little less clinginess.
I went to a ramen shop for lunch...
It's a ramen restaurant called Mito-ya. ✌️
I put garlic on my rice and put nori on top of the rice which was soaked in the soup.
Hi Manachie. 😊
For Iekei Ramen, Sugitaya Chiba is close by.
I go there while keeping an eye on my blood pressure
I am going there while keeping an eye on my blood pressure level. （I find the headquarter ramen to be too salty for me, but the Sugitaya ramen
I feel it is too salty for me, but Sugitaya is the highest level ὠ,
I feel the level is the highest 😋.
Choroki-san, I chose Portuguese in college, so I don't know. 🇵🇹 there were very few people who chose Portuguese 🤣.
It's possible to have a light smudge as it is 🤨.
Hanapin-san, good evening 🌆I've never been to Sugita-ke, so I'll try it when I go to Chiba 🍜.
My blood pressure hasn't been caught so far, but I'm a drinker so I need to be careful 😭.
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