Kaiun🤗. Summer Sake Review🎊🎊🎊.
I'm not sure if this is the first time for me to try Kaiun 😅😅😅. I don't know the normal Kaiun so I can't compare! 😆😆
It's a dry sake with a sake degree of +6. But I don't think it's that alcoholic (I don't know...). I don't know... lol.) I think it is suitable for a mealtime drink. I think so 🍶🍶. It has a nice sharpness, so I think it would go well with strong flavors👍. However...I didn't feel the summer ☀️ style (←this is my opinion).
When it gets hotter, I would be happy to drink it with grilled meat or broiled eel 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰.
Good evening, Heppoko-san ^_^
Thank you for your first Shizuoka sake 😊.
I think Shizuoka sake is generally suited for food sake? I think it goes well with food too. （I don't know about that 😁)
Thank you for your comment, Manta 🤗. I finally made my Shizuoka debut 🎊.
I would like to try Isobojama and others! If you have any recommendations for Shizuoka sake or food, please let me know 🙇. Ah! Speaking of Shizuoka, is it eel? 🥰🥰🥰🥰.
Shizuoka's two top brands are Isohajime and Kaiun.
After that, Hatsukame or Hakuin Masamune?
Eel is good, but how about some sake or some oden (oden) 😊.
Ultra fine foam
Very fine effervescence
Muscat aroma
Refreshing acidity
Gentle sweetness
You can also taste the umami.
It's hard to believe that it's 17%.
It is unique but delicious!
I bought it at my regular liquor store. It's been sitting in the fridge for quite a while.
It's the last day of the party 🥲.
📌720ml ¥1,786
Here's a quick rice comment!
The aroma is fruity.
The color is slightly golden.
The mouthfeel is sour and crisp at first, followed by the umami of the rice, and then it spreads down the throat after a while and wears off 😄Yum!
Today's pairing is the Maruten fish paste again💕!
They go so well together💕!
I have now conquered the 5 Rangers of the Unfiltered Junmai series, so I will announce the ranking!
No.1 Akaban Omachi
No.1 Aizan
No.3 Yamadaho
No.4 Homarefuji
No.4 Yamadanishiki
But it's like this...
Each of them has its own character 😅👍👍
I recommend all 😄✌️
The fun continues💕!
Today, I took the opportunity to visit Sunmart, a very famous sake store in Nagaoka City.
The selection of sake from outside of the prefecture was so great that I cursed myself for a moment for not having set foot in the store until today, even though I have lived in Nagaoka for nearly seven years.
After wandering around the store for about 30 minutes, I bought four bottles of sake, one of which is shown here.
It was a Shizuoka sake that I had been curious about.
And it is Yamadaho, the mother of Yamadanishiki.
It is a nigori (nigori is the Japanese word for "cloudy") draft, but it was produced in January 2024.
I had nightmares about Matsumori, but I trusted the store and bought it!
I couldn't control the temperature at home, so I opened the bottle on the same day!
The bottle was filled with a lively carbon dioxide gas, and I realized that the sake was still alive even after a year.
First, let's start with the supernatant.
The aroma is mild, with a mixture of alcohol and rice, like sake lees.
When you drink it, you can taste the flavor of sake lees and the umami of rice. Then there is a crisp acidity, which must have been a characteristic of new sake at the time of bottling.
Beyond this acidity, there is a rich, sweet flavor like milk caramel and nuts. This is truly an aged aroma.
When the cage is stirred and the sake is drunk, the distance between the rice and the sake is shortened, the flavor is more intense, and the aroma is more matured.
If it were not nigori, it would probably be a more light and core sake.
This is delicious!
Kaiun, it's been a while 💕
I used to get this a lot during the holiday season until a few years ago😊.
I think this is my first time to have nigori sake 🤔.
I don't know if I've ever had it in my mouth.
The opening song of Tetsuko's Room is playing in my head 😊.
🎵Laichi, la la la la la la 🎵🎵🎵
It's so lychee 💕😁
Delicious 💕😁😁
I was attracted by the pink bottle 🍶.
The fruity aroma excited my expectations. But 🤗
The sourness spreads and the bitterness follows. Hmmm, it's spicy 😋.
A subtle umami accent.
Shunyo, a sake rice that has been gaining attention in recent years, has a clear flavor without the cloying taste of other sake rice because it is lower in glutelin, an amino acid, than most other rice. It produces a fruity aroma like muscat or pear and a refined sake quality.
Sake rice is Shunyo from Kumamoto Prefecture, rice polishing ratio is 55%, yeast is Shizuoka Ginjo yeast
We had it well chilled ✨
We can drink a variety of sake at the restaurant, so we had a half-batch.
The aroma is not that strong, but there is a hint of fresh muscat 👍.
The mouthfeel is crisp but with just the right amount of sweetness to make it a refreshing sake 😆.
The slight gassy sensation that is typical of nama-shu is pleasant ✨It went well with the sashimi platter 🤤.
