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Sake Rankings by Flavor Tag

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

# 1

4.99 pt.

Sakuramuromachi

Muromachi Shuzo Okayama

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Smoky CherryBlossom Subtle Silky Creamy Bitterness

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Slightly cloudy. Smoky aroma like smoked fish, but round and quite sweet in the mouth. It would be great if it wasn't smoky...

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It was hard to ask them to let me take a picture because they looked so busy, so no picture. The aroma is classic Japanese sake. When you drink it, it is quite refreshing and slightly sweet. The color is dark and I wonder if it has aged a bit. I was allowed to take a picture of it as the restaurant was getting settled, so I switched it out.

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〰︎ Bizen Omachi, Specified Cultivation, produced in Okayama Prefecture 2023/10 Contracted with a farmer in Seto-cho, Okayama City. The brewery uses the best sake rice for its luxury sake brewing. The brewing water is one of the "100 best waters in Japan Omachi Cold Spring", one of the "100 Best Waters in Japan Sake received as a souvenir from Okayama Elegant dry taste Slightly ginjo aroma, no sweetness or sourness, strong bitterness You can taste the umami part of the rice.

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# 2

4.84 pt.

Yutaka Shuzo Fukui

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Smoky Soy Source Apple Pineapple Nutty

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［Fukui Spring New Sake Festival (6) Next, visitors can enjoy a glass of sake from their own local brewery. Hanashoku Junmai Daiginjo Betsuatsurae The aroma is like grapes with a hint of sourness, the mouthfeel is clean and sweet with a pleasant aftertaste, and there is a lingering bitterness in the back of the throat. I bought some salted sea urchin, which is a perfect match for sake, but is usually hard to find. The taste was so agonizing that it made me want to drink more sake. I think if I recommend [salted sea urchin] to people outside of the prefecture, they will be puzzled how to eat it 🤔.

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This month we had a lot of drinking outside, so it's been a while since I've had a drink at home! I got a bottle of summer sake "Kashoku", which is rarely seen even in my hometown, because there was some left at the liquor store! The mouthfeel is sweet with a refreshing acidity, and the mellow aroma lingers until the end. It seems that more emphasis is placed on the mellow aroma than on the refreshing taste! Although it is a summer sake, it is a perfect bottle for long nights in autumn. I felt it has the potential to be as good as many dishes in the autumn season of taste.

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At Shinbashi Symmes 14 degrees, soft

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# 3

4.70 pt.

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Smoky Sugar Firm

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The taste is rich but light on the palate. It is even softer when heated. It has a moderate aromatic richness and a little bit of spiciness. It has a good balance and can be served with a wide range of food. It is a limited edition sake, but it has a standard taste. Mr. Ota lives in Kamakura. I was there just two and a half months ago, so I missed it a lot! Once again, Kamakura is a wonderful place! The restaurants that were introduced to us were all very unique and the food looked delicious!

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I bought this Wakaba unfiltered sake in the summer and felt it was still young, so I let it sleep in the closet. It has a good balance of flavor, with the punch of unfiltered sake, but without losing the simple country feel of Wakaba. I put it in the closet again, but it was good enough. It's not Wakaba, but Higuchi Shinyo, a triple axel that is anything but rustic! The ROC is still very difficult, but I hope the Japanese will do their best to get on the podium!

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(The regular product has a ripeness, but this one is relatively refined. It looks light but has a solid core, and there is still a sense of ripeness in the back. It shows its full potential when heated. The richness comes out well. When it cools down, the sweetness comes out well. I bought it from a sake brewer, and when I asked for sakekasu, they gave me a lot of it! Maybe it's because I buy from the sake brewer sometimes. It is very delicious when it is baked!

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# 4

4.66 pt.

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Chestnutt Smoky Nutty

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Kitakata City, Fukushima Prefecture. Limited Partnership Aizu Nishiki. Aizu-Nishiki, wandering Sukene, unfiltered, raw sake. Sasu-kene" means "no problem" or "all right" in the Aizu dialect. It is served cold. It is clear with a slight yellow tinge. The top aroma is like a slightly unusual sweet malted rice aroma, and there is a hint of apricot. The mouthfeel is slightly juicy and flows smoothly. The first impression is a gentle sweetness, with a fluffy honey and apricot scent spreading through the overtone, and a slight smokiness. The aftertaste is sour and slightly bitter, with a slightly sharp spiciness that lingers on the tongue. It was an interesting and unusual taste, not usually found in Japanese sake. Ingredients: rice (domestic), rice malt (domestic) Rice polishing ratio: 70%. Alcohol content: 16%.

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Purchased at the Aizu festival in Kokubunji! Delicious banana-flavored sake! I love all the sake from Fukushima!

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It is an easy to drink sake with no peculiarities. It is a delicious sake that does not interfere with meals. I wish there was a regular sake club.

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# 5

4.30 pt.

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Smoky Fizzy Acidity Umami Bitterness Muscat Sharp Dry

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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

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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

# 6

4.04 pt.

Shiokawa Shuzo Niigata

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Caramelized Miso Smoky Soy Source

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Today is Valentine's Day!👩‍❤️‍👨 This Sake paired very well with the filet mignon I prepared for my wife. There is a full mouth feel with umami. There is a light smoke flavor and wood. The aftertaste is short.

I bought it because the production date was a year ago and it was priced at 1,000 yen. It is said to be a sake made for meat dishes like steak, but first I tried it by itself. There was no cloying taste, and the taste was pure and not particularly pretentious. The sweetness tends to be hidden, and perhaps because of the high alcohol content, it tastes a bit muddy afterwards. If you drink it slowly, you can taste the umami of the rice, and it is quite a good sake. However, it is a bit strong on its own, so it is best to drink it with the sweetness of fat from grilled meat.

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A lot of umami and funk at first, but gets smoother as you go. Strong - half a bottle with my husband definitely had us feeling tipsy. Great with food or alone after a long day. Smokey and sweet.

# 7

3.99 pt.

Momokawa Aomori

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From sweetness to strength From thick to delicious All encompassing It's a complex attack. It is a good, good sake.

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Purchased at Liquor Mountain in Aeon Odaka. 720 ml for 1,078 yen including tax. Polishing ratio 50%. Sake degree ±0 It is labeled "Umakuchi". I wonder what it is. Well, I think I know what "Umakuchi" means. It is neither sweet nor dry, but "umakuchi". It seems to be good in terms of cost performance. If I had no other choice, I would choose this one. (Sorry, 🙇‍♂️)

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https://shop.momokawa.co.jp/?pid=93664373

# 8

3.96 pt.

Funaki Shuzo Fukui

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Tasted here also at Hankyu Department Store. Junmai Ginjo-shu made with Kuzuryu. It is a refreshingly dry sake, but has a sweet and fruity taste. This time I bought a bottle of unfiltered raw sake made with Jinryoku.

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Tasted at Umeda Hankyu Department Store. The rice was said to be Gohyakumangoku. The quality of the sake is clean and refreshing for hiyaoroshi. It is easy to drink without a sense of maturity. As the person in charge said, it is a quiet type of sake, so I think it is suitable for a mealtime drink.

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It looks like all of them use locally grown rice, as did the two types of Kitanosho I posted the other day. It seems that only Ryu-ryoku and Koko use Jinryoku all the time. I'm sure there are other places like Okura that use it for single use. When I tasted it, my impression was that it was quite sweet and the second half was heavy, but it was smoky and the flavor of the rice came through with a bang. It has a strong bitterness at the end. It is not the type of sake I would drink on its own, so I will have to wait and see. I don't think it should be chilled too much. If you like Shimane or Tottori area sake, this would be good for you. I think it has a quality of sake that would not be affected by letting it sit for a while. There are glimpses of sweetness and a fruity atmosphere, but I wonder if it's basically more of a classic. Is it a multi-faceted, multi-personality sake?

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# 9

3.94 pt.

板野酒造場 Okayama

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Taste of the Ancient Times Aroma reminiscent of old wood and steamed rice. The sharp mouthfeel is followed by a tangy, pungent taste. The taste is full of alcohol with a hint of umami, and finishes with a lingering pungent and astringent aftertaste. It gives the impression of good old tradition. It tastes like an old house. We would like to support this brewery as it is the nearest brewery to Okayama. ★★★★

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Bizen tasted Ichinomiya sake. The labeling was a bit dubious, with no indication of rice polishing ratio or alcohol content, and "Junmai Daiginjo" pasted on the label after the fact... The taste was fresh and light. The taste was fresh, light, and refreshing.

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Obtained at a brewery festival. Sourness and bitterness on the palate, with a hint of ginjo. I guess it's not my favorite sake...

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# 10

3.86 pt.

Sasanokawa Shuzo Fukushima

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BBQ in the garden🍖Cup of sake is good to drink outside😋.

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2024 1128 ☆☆☆☆☆ Sasanokawa one Fukushima Ichi-Dry Recommended on the rocks Do not warm up! This is a true dry sake. 19% alcohol by volume Sake degree +20 5th WINE & SAKE EXPO - JFEX WINE & SPIRITS at Makuhari Sasanokawa Sake Brewery Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture

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2024 1128 ☆☆☆☆ Sasanokawa (river of bamboo grass) Japanese sake Junmai Ginjo Fukushima Prefecture sake brewing rice Fukunoka Polishing ratio 58 5th WINE & SAKE EXPO - JFEX WINE & SPIRITS at Makuhari Sasanokawa Sake Brewery Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture

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