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Nigori Ekiden, section 5
The Nigori Ekiden has now turned around...it's time to climb the mountain. Our team has chosen this humble yet powerful sake, which can be consumed in a single bottle without any problem, as the god of the mountain! You may call me austere, but this is the way I choose.
Last year, it had been too long since the bottle was released and I couldn't feel any fizziness... This year, I drank it as soon as I bought it, so I could taste the fizziness, big or small. Gentle and schwirling mouthfeel.
The aroma is a nigori-like rice flavor. The hints of banana-like aroma that grow more and more bananas-like by the day are very nice.
It is delicious from the moment it is sipped all the way through to the end! It is not a junmai sake, but rather an aruzome sake, which means that it finishes sharply, but this is probably the reason why it can be drunk lightly without being sluggish. Especially with a meal, it is easy to drink endlessly, so you need to save your energy.
This year I enjoyed it even more than last year... My only regret is that I drank it all cold. It's absolutely delicious even if you warm it up... It's a new dark horse sectional record like Yamamoto of Josai University in 2023 (the following year, he was also a new sectional record)! We were very impressed.
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