日本酒けい
Provenance: Happo-cho, Akita Prefecture ■Structure: Junmai Ginjo ■Capacity: 720ml ■Price (main body): 1,790 yen
Rice: Gin no Sei Miyamanishiki ■Polishing ratio: 50% ■Yeast: Wine yeast AK-1
Sake meter degree: +3 ■Acidity: 2.1 ■Alcohol level: 14.0
Brewing year: R5BY
Storage: Refrigeration recommended
[Release: From April].
This is an ambitious work that challenges a completely new genre, using a wine yeast for Chardonnay that the brewery's president, Mr. Yamamoto, obtained overseas. Since wine yeast does not produce any ginjo aroma, it can easily become just a sweet and sour sake, so AK-1, an isoamyl acetate-based yeast, is blended in. Several years have already passed since its debut, but at the time, the timing of its addition was quite a struggle. The taste has a sourness characteristic of wine yeast, and is quite unique. It is indeed a junmai ginjo, but the flavor is reminiscent of a fine sweet white wine, and it makes me miss cheese.
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