It smells sweet. Cherry or peach.
Flavor of apricot and rice in the bottle.
A refreshing mouthfeel.
Nice contrast with the spicy miso sauce.
A good food sake.
Taste level ☆3/5
The mouthfeel is sweet. It is sweet, but less bloated and refreshing. Bitterness also comes in the mouth. The aftertaste is a little bitter, but it is sharp. It is delicious.
Sweetness of rice from the top, fruity and fruity aroma from the middle to the end, just a kick afterwards.
A drink that goes well with meat fat.
Rice polishing ratio 35
Sake meter degree +3, acidity 1.2
Liking degree 3.5
This year was personally the first year for me to start drinking sake, and it was a year in which I got into a new world of sake, researching and drinking great sake here and there while reading the diaries of everyone at Sake-no-Wawa. The last sake of 2024 will be from Oita, a prefecture that has a strong impression of shochu (distilled spirit). Located at the foot of the Kujyu mountain range, the Yatsuka Sake Brewery is celebrating its 160th anniversary, and although they now make shochu and cabochon liqueur, sake brewing seems to be their main business since their establishment. It tastes like a light ginjo sake that can be opened easily.
Have a good New Year's!
⚫︎Raw material rice: Yamadanishiki
⚫︎Polishing ratio: 60
⚫︎ Alcohol: 14%.
I bought this bottle in Oita when I visited there for a cardiovascular conference.
The mouthfeel is light and soft, with a mild sweetness and astringency that spreads throughout the mouth, and an aftertaste that leaves one feeling numb and jingly.