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Family-in-law series 🍶.
The taste was doubled when I drank this sake while listening to the story of this sake from my father-in-law.
There is a lake in Omihachiman, a water village, called Lake Nishi-no-ko, which is close to Lake Biwa, but not attached to Lake Biwa. After the war, the land was reclaimed and turned into rice paddies to expand the farmland, but after a while the land was abandoned. The sake brewery, local students, and others worked together to revive the rice paddies. The sake rice "Shiga Watabune No. 6" was grown and brewed into "Gonza.
I only heard this story from my father-in-law, so I am not sure how much of it is true.
I just googled it and found out that "Gonza" is the name of a rice field in an enclave on a lake in the west. Looks like a floating island. It is a limited sake because it can only be planted in a limited area, so the harvest is limited and it is hard to find outside of the prefecture, etc.
The taste is full of sake flavor! The ginjo aroma was rich and full, with a refreshing feeling that did not make me tired of drinking, which made me drink more sake.
I was disappointed that I did not know when the bottle was opened and that I drank it at room temperature, so next time I would like to open the bottle myself and drink it chilled 🥺.
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