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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!
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I can go to nigorigo too!
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I don't usually drink nigori, but this was delicious!
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