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Sake Rankings by Flavor Tag

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

# 71

3.05 pt.

Fuji Shuzo Yamagata

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Herbal Muscat Rich and Gentle Flamboyant Graceful Rum

Arikato 1

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Preferred: ★★★★☆ Cold sake: ★★★★☆ Cold: - Lukewarm: - Hot: - Aroma 　Sweet, calm, floral aroma 🍶Taste 　Elegant sweetness and a hint of sourness on the palate 　The aftertaste is clean and refreshing. Accompaniments 　Ita Wasa, sashimi (octopus), sodeika seaweed salt, dried urume seaweed, mackerel miso (canned) Purchase price 　About 1,350 yen💦.

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Too easy to drink, but with a strong sense of sake flavor.

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Woah! Yamagata Prefecture! I like ！！！！ It's sweet and heavy from the start! I wonder if it will get spicier as you drink it. It also has a slight effervescence! Is it spicy? It's firm! Fruity as you drink it! I like it!

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Where to Buy

木川屋山形の地酒専門店

栄光冨士／冨士酒造有加藤ありかとう蔵出限定純米吟醸酒 1800ml 日本酒¥2,444

# 72

3.03 pt.

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Sweetness Banana Creamy

Monsoon 1

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Monsoon 3

This is the first time I have had kijoshu. It had a sweetness different from anything I had ever had before and was easy to drink.

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🍶🌾 Laughing Four Seasons MONSOON MONSOON Kijoshu Ginbuki Koshiki Nama Moto 2024-25 Nama Sake Purchased by my husband who is a self-proclaimed "kijoshu lover"! It is sweet like syrup! But it tastes crisp at the end. It tasted different the next day.

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Beginner's impression I thought it smelled like alcohol by smell and when I drank it, it felt like medical alcohol and I didn't like it.

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# 73

3.03 pt.

Azumamine Shuzoten Iwate

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Umami Sweetness Acidity Wine Sharp Grapefruit Invigorating Crisp

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Mellow, oicy 🍶. Is it a good taste ✨? I'm enjoying it.

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It has a clear, yet subtly sweet and umami taste. The final acidity gives it a sharp edge. The taste has an atmosphere that it can be matured. I expected it to be a little sweeter and fruity, so I was disappointed... It has a thick and extractive mouthfeel. It has a nutty flavor but finishes with a refreshing acidity.

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It has a very pleasant balance of sweetness that doesn't linger and a bitter aftertaste. ❣️ It is even better at higher temperatures. This is a good umami sake!

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# 74

3.02 pt.

Suruga Shuzojo Shizuoka

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Dry Umami Lingering

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. Sake rice: Gohyakumangoku Polishing ratio: 60 Sake degree: -2 Acidity: 2.1 Slightly sweet with a deliciously sour and refreshing taste! ✩4.0

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It is super dry, and I thought dry sake would be too strong and I would not like it, but I was surprised at how easy it is to drink and how much I liked it, with a refreshing feeling in the mouth and no lingering aftertaste on the tongue that disappears forever!

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Dry with a clean aftertaste Suitable for yakitori

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# 75

3.02 pt.

Miyajima Saketen Nagano

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Dry Umami Fragrant Sharp Acidity Shaoxing Wine Firm Caramelized

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Zankuro 3

It is a light amber Junmai-shu brewed with the fantastic sake rice "Kinmon Nishiki". The aroma is cemedine...sweet and bitter with a hint of bitterness! It's dry, so it goes well with thickly seasoned food. For beginners, it is not recommended...? I've been drinking it with bonito sashimi with silver skin...

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This is my first brand. I didn't expect much, but it was delicious and a pleasant miscalculation. The acidity is delicious. It is easy to drink. It is like a summer sake. It has a long aftertaste. It was a hit.

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Purchased at Shirakikuya in Tomita, Takatsuki City, Osaka for about 3000 yen. Sake is expensive these days. I was looking for a junmai (pure rice) sake with about 60% polished rice, but it turned out to be 61%! And the alcohol content is 16 degrees. It is 100% Miyamanishiki with reduced use of pesticides. This is my first sake from Nagano Prefecture. It has a nice mouthfeel, but it is very robust. It is cut and clean. After two weeks of drinking, it mellows out. It is a bottle that makes you think that sake is good.

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Where to Buy

酒専門店　知多繁　楽天市場店

【この斬れ味のよさ！大辛口の純米酒！長野県・伊那の宮島酒店の】斬九郎　特別純米　火入れ　720ml¥1,620 斬九郎　全麹仕込み　特別純米旨口大古酒　18BY　500ml【長野県・伊那の宮島酒店】¥1,720

# 76

3.01 pt.

Tanabe Shuzo Fukui

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Umami Dry Tranquil Acidity Sweetness Light Firm Room Temperature

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(*^▽^*)🍶🍶🍶🍶 I stopped by a liquor store on my way home from exploring Fukui Station the other day and bought this Echizen Cape ✨😀 I haven't seen it in about 4 years 🐧. The aroma is a bit of a gorgeous ginjo aroma😊The mouthfeel is smooth and the sweetness and umami of the rice is elegant in the mouth 😘The aftertaste is short and disappears quickly 😚👍. It is a well-balanced and delicious sake 🥳👍

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Light, refreshing, dry 🍶. And yet fruity and easy to drink✨. It was a complete package deal. I enjoy it very much.

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Noodle Chan recommends the Honami 🌾. Gentle sweetness and sharp spiciness ✨ Goes great with sashimi 😍.

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Where to Buy

お酒の専門店『松仙』

日本酒越前岬さかほまれ無濾過原酒ｈｏｎａｍｉ１８００ml 【田辺酒造有限会社】¥3,960

# 77

3.01 pt.

abenosturu shuzou Yamaguchi

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Apple Champagne Umami Youthful

Abu no Tsuru 1

Abu no Tsuru 2

Abu no Tsuru 3

This sake has an elegant muscat-like aroma and a full-bodied rice flavor, matched by a refreshing acidity and spiciness. Serve with macaroni salad

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I bought this sake because it was recommended by the proprietress of the liquor store. It has a mellow aroma and taste reminiscent of melon, and is a high quality sake that is not cloying and does not interfere with the taste of the meal.

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Oh," he said! Dots and lines!" I was surprised when I saw the menu! The owner of the restaurant I often visit said he was most impressed with this sake. I had seen Abu-no-Tsuru before, but not Doten-Sen. Encounters come out of the blue, don't they? The aroma is refreshing. When you include it, it is very elegant and sweet. It tastes like grapefruit sprinkled with fine sugar. Well, this is delicious~!

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# 78

3.01 pt.

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Acidity Smoky Bitterness Umami Fizzy Sharp Muscat Dry

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Shikishima 3

Closing out the drinks we had last weekend 😆. Smell good 😌. The Mikotsuru was quite rich and sweet, so I felt a lot of sourness when I took a sip 😳. The more I drank, the more umami and the sourness and aliveness were also good 👍 I can feel the strong aroma of the barrels! Is this a dry wine? and Nobby Well, I guess it's umakuchi. It is labeled 18 degrees, but you don't feel it. I thought it would have been better if it was warmed up to lukewarm 🤔 I thought so later, but I finished it before I realized it 😆. But I drank a little too much from Thursday to the weekend 😓. I'll enjoy a quiet rest day for the first half of this week 😮💨.

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Nice to meet you Shikishima ~ ⤴️🍶 Light, refreshing, fruity🌸🍶✨ A little 🍈, a little 🍍, a little citrus 🍊 😊. This is super oicy ❕. I enjoy it very much.

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Tonight, I'm opening a bottle of the first bottle of Masamune instrument for the weekend dinner because it's so good it's about to run out 💁. Shikishima Light Nigori Nama Sake 2022BY Back on the nigori road a bit, but again it's almost a year old 😅. When I opened the bottle, I could hear the gas escaping with a nice sound. The aroma is mainly chemically aromatic, with a hint of greffle skin and a little bit of maturity. The mouthfeel changes from sourness and citrus bitterness to bitterness, umami, and spiciness. The alcohol content is 18%, so it has quite a punch, but the sweetness and umami from the aging process gives the impression that it is more rounded. It's good that the lees are so cloudy and the umami and richness is so much better 😊.

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Where to Buy

酒専門店　知多繁　楽天市場店

敷嶋　特別純米生原酒　夢吟香　720ml【愛知県半田市　伊東株式会社】¥1,650 敷嶋　特別純米　山田錦　720ml【愛知県半田市　伊東株式会社】¥1,650

Where to Buy

お酒の専門店『松仙』

日本酒敷嶋純米吟醸酒山田錦７２０ml 【伊東酒造】¥2,090 日本酒敷嶋特別純米原酒 ≪火入れ≫ １８００ml 【伊東酒造】¥3,740

# 79

3.00 pt.

Saga Shuzo Saga

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Chocolate Miso Dry

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Continuing the sake tasting at Takeo Onsen ♨️. I didn't know there were so many sake breweries in Saga. We enjoyed the sake while chatting with the proprietress. No aftertaste, too refreshing. You can compare the taste if you are not drunk 🤣.

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At Yakitori and Chicken Cuisine Izakaya Sabito in Saga. The taste is sweet and sour, with a dry aftertaste and a strong alcohol taste that chills the upper jaw. The aftertaste is dry, with a strong alcohol sensation that tingles in the upper jaw. It can be drunk rather easily.

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A bottle purchased on a trip to Saga Aroma like old sake, like rice bran - then mineral aroma Soft sweetness without acidity and a round mouthfeel. A hint of vanilla in the nose I think this would be even better if it were heated up. But even though it's air-conditioned, it's still hot in the middle of summer. The website says "lukewarm or hot heating is recommended"! I had no choice but to drink it. ❗️ I drink it with a sake cup that my eldest son gave me! Sake temperature: 45 degrees. The fermentation smell is gone and the aroma is not strong. In the mouth, the soft sweetness is still there, but the thickness has increased and there is not much acidity. The sweetness slowly lingers on the tongue. This is delicious. ❗️ I want to drink it slowly without snacks on a long autumn night!

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# 80

3.00 pt.

Okotoyama Shuzo Yamagata

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Perfumed Dry Umami Crisp Plump

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Uyootokoyama 3

. Sake rice: Dewa Tsanzan Rice polishing ratio: 55 At "Duck and Obanzai Udono" in West Station, Toyohashi Duck and Obanzai Udono" at Toyohashi Nishi Station Umami and sweet! ✩4.0

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Another bottle I bought at Hasegawa-san in Tokyo station. The first time for Otokoyama-san in Yamagata This is also the original label of Hasegawa-san. The rice used is Miyamanishiki, so it's the same as "Junmai-shu Gold Label". Anyway, it was a delicious sake with a lot of fullness. The sharpness isn't bad either, and it's perfect as a sake for a meal. I thought it was good for everyday drinking. That's about all I can say for a 1-gallon bottle...

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☆☆☆☆☆ A refreshing hiyaoroshi with a lot of acidity. It doesn't have much sense of maturity, but the umami is strong. Delicious sake that doesn't interfere with food.

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Where to Buy

銘酒本舗　IMANAKA SAKESHOP

羽陽男山出羽豊穣小仕込特別純米酒 1800ml うようおとこやまでわほうじょう¥2,970 羽陽男山純米原酒無濾過本生 1800ml うようおとこやま¥3,190

Where to Buy

はせがわ酒店

山男山羽陽男山純米酒 720ml 日本酒男山酒造山形県¥1,397

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