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1853 2024/9 Kyo no Haru
Junmai Nama Nigori Sake
67% 17° 24/8 A
Ine-cho, Kyoto
720 1945
The bottle was warned to be opened with caution, but there was no fizziness at all, and the lees did not move even slightly.
The first thing I did was to pour the clear sake into a cup, and even there I did not feel any fizz.
But the taste is quite refreshing and delicious.
After the second glass, I mixed the lees with the nigoromi (nigori)... Perhaps because the lees is so thick (about a quarter of the lees in stillness), the sake was a little heavy, beyond soft.
It might be exquisite if gas were involved...but I kept on drinking.
I had the impression that if there was a sense of effervescence... if there was no effervescence, the clear sake would be better....
On the second day, I had the clear sake and light nigori.
Since I was enjoying Ine-Manbaike at the same time, I thought it would be good if they were from the same brewery, so I combined the remaining lees with Ine-Manbaike and enjoyed it as a mellow pink sake.
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