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Introducing sake brands with the strongest impression of "Caramelly" flavor, ranked by the strength of the impression.

# 1

4.99 pt.

Yamato Damashii

Eigashima Shuzo Hyogo

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Caramelly Shaoxing Wine Acidity Creamy Sweet and Sour

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Japanese Sake Fest @ Osaka Bay Tower (・ω・`) The effect of oak barrels, or something quite close to whiskey, but the mellowness and acidity of sake is also alive! I know it's just my imagination, but I feel it's similar to the whiskey akashi. Of course, if I didn't know any better, I wouldn't have thought so. I also had a bottle of Junmai Namae in the heated sake corner, but my memory is a little fuzzy on whether or not my brain was getting the alcohol when I got here! I do remember that it was meant to be heated, but that's about it.

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Tastes like Shaoxing wine. However, it has almost no acidity and has a caramel-like aroma and a strong mizu-hashimoto (water yeast) flavor.

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Aged in oak barrels used for whisky Akashi, sour and full-bodied, with an aroma of amontillado and Shaoxing wine. Yamatodamashii Junmai Mizuhashi Special II, stored in French oak barrels "Mizuhashi Special II" is made with part white malted rice to bring out citric acidity, fire-brewed, and aged for two years in French oak barrels.

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# 2

4.88 pt.

太田酒造 Shiga

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Smells like caramel, baked apples, ripe. Yellowish liquid. Taste of caramel and a bit of sweetness and acidity. I opened the bottle as soon as I bought it, but the shipment was a year ago.

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Ota Sake Brewery in Shiga, which brews Doukan. This is my first time to try this brand 🍶. It is a rich, robust, unadulterated sake. It is easy to drink without any peculiarities. It has a mild sweetness.

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I bought it at a liquor store I happened to walk into. If I come across it again, I would like to repeat it.

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# 3

4.76 pt.

Asahi Shuzo Shimane

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. Sake rice: Sakonishiki (produced in Shimane Prefecture) Rice polishing ratio: 55 Sake Degree: +7.5 Yeast : Shimane K-1 At "Duck and Obanzai Udono" in West Station, Toyohashi At "Duck and Obanzai Udono" in West Station, Toyohashi So-so dry sake ✩3.5

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The flavor is rich and complex, yet somehow gentle and simple. Warm it up and it becomes even mellower!

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Quick and easy! If you're going to drink a lot, you might as well start drinking.

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# 4

4.72 pt.

Takagaki Shuzo Wakayama

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Coffee Caramelly

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Sake from a brewery famous for Ryujinmaru. It has been a very long time since Kirakuri. After Shikishima, tkmts-san was drinking Ryujinmaru, and I wanted to try something of Takagaki-san's sake, so I chose Kirakuri. This time it was an unfiltered raw Nakadori. It has a caramelized taste with sweetness and a sense of maturity. It's just a coincidence that there is a succession of sakes with a sense of maturity, such as Washin, Shikishima, and Kirakuri.

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Location Wakayama Arita-gun Rice type Type of Sake Junmai Ginjo Rice polishing 50%. Alcohol content 19°. Sake Mother Sake degree Acidity Rating（scale 0-3) (Item) Wine glass (Aroma) +2 Steamed rice, Narazuke, (Appearance) Clear (Taste) Clear Body 2 Acid 2 Sweetness 2 Umami 2 Bitterness 2.5 Pungency 2 Lingering Sweetness and bitterness follow, so you don't feel the alcohol is too strong. Impression: Delicious sweetness The attack is relatively sweet due to the alcohol and sugar, but then mysterious astringency and bitterness rush in. It has a nuance like when you bite into the skin of a grape. I felt that it was a sake that chose the drinker, but I enjoyed it because it had a taste that I had never had before.

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I was drunk and lost my memory.

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Where to Buy

お酒の専門店　『松仙』

日本酒喜楽里（きらり）純米吟醸生原酒１８００ｍｌ【高垣酒造】¥4,840

# 5

4.32 pt.

Tatsuizumi Shuzo Fukushima

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Raisin Caramelly Floral

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My wife has a slight taste disorder, but since she couldn't spend time at her parents' house 😊, we treated her to another New Year's meal 🎍. The wine to go with it was "Kyo no Hana" purchased at our favorite liquor store in Kushiro, Sagajo Shoten. I was torn between this and "Tatsusen" brewed by the same brewery, neither of which I had ever tasted before, but I chose this one because of the "fantastic rice" description 😊. Kyo no Hana No.1! There really are a lot of different sake rice varieties available: ‼️ It has a sharpness that is typical of Fukushima sake, but at the same time, it has a moist and gradually delicious flavor 😋.

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Kyo-no-Hana from the sake bag I bought in Fukushima. It is sweet but not too sweet, so it is very tasty. Today I paired it with chawanmushi (steamed egg custard), grilled hanpen cheese with mentaiko (cod roe), and ahi jio with nori (dried seaweed), all of which went very well together.

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It is a very tasty, clean and crisp sake. It is a well-balanced and good food sake. It went well with chawanmushi (steamed egg custard) and ahi jus. ★★★★

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# 6

4.29 pt.

伊藤酒造 Mie

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Nutty Caramelly Rich Graceful Fragrant

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I bought it at a sake shop in Kintetsu Department Store. I can't read "mother-of-pearl" 🤣I heard it is read as "Uzume", but if you type "den" for mother-of-pearl in your phone, it will come up 😁. If I lived a normal life, I would never use this kanji 😅. I got the impression it's a pineapple with a bit of bitterness 🍍. It was sweeter when I tasted it, so maybe it's sweeter after some time, but it's 500ml and I can't wait that long 🤣. Maybe the aroma is a bit peculiar.

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Purchased at Kintetsu Department Store's Sake Tour. The label is a sheep kept at the brewery. It has a slight sweetness, and is full, rich, and powerful. It has a strong richness. It might be good if it is laid down. There are graininess and nutty nuances. I guess it's normal for a good price. I didn't buy Yamahai because I didn't want the similar taste to continue, but Yamahai might have been better... It's the third day, but I think it's getting sweeter and tastier than the first day.

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Rice used is something from Mie Prefecture Aged for 4 years, pale amber in color. Smoky and graininess with the color as it is. The sweetness is elegant, and the spiciness in the aftertaste has an impact on the throat and nose. It is a little peculiar, but I personally like it! I don't know what the original flavor was, but it has a nice aged feel. ❣️

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# 7

4.24 pt.

Yoshida Shuzo Shiga

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Caramelly Young

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This is the first time I've bought bamboo island since the new system was put in place. According to the official website of the Japan Famous Sake Association, the rice is Nihonbare and Yamadanishiki. The lees are submerged and when mixed, it is slightly effervescent and petite. Slightly sweet and bitter. I wonder if it is better to drink it while it has gas? Once the gas is gone, the bitterness will make it hard to drink 🤔. I wonder if it would be sweeter to drink the alcohol by itself?

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OSAKA-JO SAKE SQUARE 2023 It is a very crisp, dry, deep-flavored Ajiginjo. The aroma is subtle. The mellowness is more apparent in junmai sake. This is also a good sake. I drank 8 glasses this time and they were all good! There are so many good sake that I can't keep up with them all! It's a happy scream!

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Rice used is unknown Slightly pear-like aroma. It has a light shwashiness, and the sweetness is refreshing and light. Is it a summer sake? The umami is also crisp and clean. This is good!

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# 8

4.12 pt.

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Grainy Caramelly

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Maruishi Brewing's Chohyo year-end festival, second bottle. This sake is made from Manzai, an edible rice that has been revived in Okazaki. It is a junmai daiginjo, and naturally it has a beautiful, fruity taste, but compared to Nitoshi, it has more robust rice flavor than acidity and sweetness...I think. Am I biased? Is it my imagination?

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Heavy rice aroma. It has a fresh, clear flavor with a good thickness, and it disappears smoothly with a green apple-like fruitiness at the end.

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Two hares, zodiac sign bottle, firm and tasty It sinks in...(^^)

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# 9

4.07 pt.

へのへのもへじ

Akishika Shuzo Osaka

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Nutty Caramelly

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Junmai Ginjo 🍶 Henohenomoheji 😅 All of it is made from Yamada Nishiki 🌾 without agricultural chemicals in its own fields. Fairly yellow, strong acidity, matured. Daruma Masamune-like. It's a bit like Daruma Masamune. Surprisingly young freshness as you drink it ✨ matched with grilled wagyu beef ichibo 🐂👍 Umi and @Takadanobaba 20230516

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2019. quite yellowish. The umami of rice comes to the fore. The aroma of the wine is very matured.

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6/10 Domaine Akishika. It is said to be a sake made from Omachi produced in a rice field called Kamimura-Omachi. And they say it is aged, so the price is quite expensive. It had a robust flavor and mellow taste. The bitterness that comes in the latter half of the sake was also enjoyable. I had no idea that such a sake was available here.

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Where to Buy

酒浪漫うちやま　楽天市場店

＜令和6年2月入荷＞秋鹿【純米吟醸】「へのへのもへじ」きもと無農薬山田錦無濾過〔生原酒〕令和4年度醸造1800ml¥4,620

# 10

4.05 pt.

Takagaki Shuzo Wakayama

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Caramelly Umami Chocolate Grainy Nutty Complex Creamy Sweetness

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2020/11/06 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A subdued but green apple-like aroma. The mouthfeel is refreshing and smooth. It is followed by a rich sweetness and flavor. Spiciness and acidity are rather subdued. It finishes off nicely with a slight bitterness. It was easier to drink than the ginjo I received before.

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Tonight, I'm posting my second bottle, this one I've been letting go for about 2 years to contrast with the first (Miyazumi Junmai Nigori Nama) 🍶. Actually, I bought it at the same time as the previous Junmai, but when I drank the Junmai, I took it for granted that this was a sake that should be aged for a long time 😪💤 and it has been in the bottle for a long time until now 😌. The aroma is grain-like, or Western liquor-like, or mature aroma, and the smell alone is enough to make you feel drunk. 😵‍💫 I think it's better to drink it at room temperature or warmed than chilled because the initial smell will disappear. Maybe I'll give it a try after tomorrow. It's good to enjoy long-aged sake sometimes. ☺️

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2020/09/20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In the mouth, it has a unique herbal aroma. It has a caramelized, slightly sweet taste. The flavor of the rice is clean and clear, and the taste of the rice comes across well. The aftertaste is light and crisp. It's a little crooked, but for some reason you can drink it.

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