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The color is slightly yellowish. The aroma is gentle and sweet, like white wine. The alcoholic smell is similar to wine.
In the first sip, the taste of sweet grapes is as you would expect, but then it changes to a rice flavor.
The alcohol is the type of alcohol that sticks in your throat with no irritation in your mouth. So if you decide it's mellow in your mouth and swallow it, you'll be surprised at the gap.
When it contains air, it becomes more like white wine.
The aftertaste leaves a strong taste of rice. It is not sticky, but it doesn't disappear naturally, so if you don't like it, you can drink water to get rid of it.
The usual*.
This sake seems to have won an award in a French sake competition. From this point of view, I thought it must be similar to wine, but I didn't expect it to be this close. Of course, it doesn't have the sweetness and acidity of grapes because the ingredients are different, but the aroma and the mildness in the mouth made me wonder how they could be so similar, and at the same time I thought, "The possibilities for sake are endless.
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