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Tekkotai, 4-Gou Bottle Version of Explosive Nigori
After seeing how the bottle was opened at the store, I was not confident (or skilled) enough to open a 1-sho bottle, so I bought a 4-gou bottle that looked easy even for an amateur to open.
Even so, the bottle was opened safely after 4 or 5 times of venting.
Pouring it into a glass, I was impressed by the lees that I could clearly see the shape of the rice grains.
The image of the bottle when it was opened made me imagine it was highly carbonated, but when I actually drank it, there was not such a strong gaseous sensation, and when I crushed the rice grains with my tongue, I felt a slight carbonation, which was pleasant.
The aroma is lactic acidic, probably due to the large amount of lees, and the taste is firm and spicy with a refreshing acidity like green apples.
I prefer super sweet wine, but the moderate gassiness makes it easy to drink, and I tend to drink too much on the first day.
When I consumed a bottle at home, I enjoyed the texture of the rice grains that were moderately mixed in with the sake in the early stages, but the rice grains that tended to accumulate in the latter half of the bottle (perhaps a problem with the pouring method...) left me with a slightly excessive feeling of grains rather than a desire to enjoy the sake in its purest form.
I heard that it also tastes good heated, so I tried heating it up, and it was indeed delicious, but more than the flavor benefits, the graininess that tends to linger in the second half became much milder when heated up, and I didn't feel the excessive graininess that I did when drinking it cold, so I felt that drinking it cold in the first half and heated up in the second half was the right way for me. The first half of the bottle was cold and the second half was warmed.
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