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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.

# 51

2.76 pt.

出羽の冨士

佐藤酒造 Akita

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Umami Fresh Flamboyant Fruity Apple Juicy Bitterness Melon-flavored

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Last week I visited Dewano-Fuji at Hankyu Department Store, but I went to Umemoto Sake-ten in Nishinakajima because I thought I could find more variety at a special distributor. (Note that they have moved from the location shown on the map of Sake-no-wa, and they have a corner bar inside after 4:00 p.m.) I was a bit lost, so I asked the waitress and she let me try a sample. Melon-like fruity sweet taste. Slightly refreshing? It was delicious, but Junmai Arabashiri seemed rarer, so I bought that one 😊.

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The beautiful kaleidoscope-like label is impressive. The taste is sweet with a hint of bitterness at the end. It is refreshing and crisp, but the screw was unusually hard to open, so I think it should be improved. The Junmai Unfiltered Nama-jyu I drank at the end of the year was cheaper and much tastier. I don't know if it's because they use Miyamanishiki, but it tastes a little like the Jokigen I had the other day. A bit 🍇ish.

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This brand is only sold at a liquor store in Akita called Sugakyu Shoten! I was attracted by the rarity of being able to buy it only there, but it was delicious and I was able to enjoy the afterglow of my trip even after my business trip to Akita.

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# 52

2.74 pt.

和田龍登水

Wadaryu Shuzo Nagano

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Umami Acidity Balanced Lingering Gentle Fruity Light Sweetness

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Round and gentle taste. Well-balanced food sake.

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Store Drinking. HITOGOKICHIKI 100% The color is clear or slightly amber. The aroma is that of rice. When you sip it, you will taste the flavor of rice. It has a dry ALC feel. There is no fruity sweetness, and the taste is stoic. The rice sweetness remains until the end, with a rounded aftertaste. It has the impression of a Junmai Doshin🎯 royal road.

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😁 Ingredients: rice (domestic), rice malt (domestic) Rice used: 100% Yamadanishiki Rice polishing ratio: 59 Alcohol content: 15 I drank the sake I missed yesterday today. I went to Ueda, so I bought a bottle of Wada Ryutonomizu. It was a delicious hiyaoroshi with a good taste of rice. None of the people I drank with today knew about it. I thought it was pretty famous in my opinion, but... Is that so?

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# 53

2.73 pt.

Koimari Shuzo Saga

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Fizzy Fruity Acidity Sweetness Juicy Crisp Umami Balanced

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It's juicy with a delicious, dark sweet and sour taste 😋. It has a unique sourness that makes it so delicious that you can't help but gulp it down. I'm getting a bit of a throat 🤣.

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Sake Day I wanted to open something from the fridge😅. I've never heard of this sake before but I've been curious about it since Mariponnu's check-in 😊. First Koimari! I can't imagine how good it smells from the label. It's very fruity and sweet! It also has a nice exit feeling. The finish is clean and crisp👍👍.

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(2) Ko-Imari Sake Brewery I mean limited edition sake, once a year! The 🦓 zebra label is cool too~! Now, a sip... delicious ☺️👍 It has a gassy feeling! Slightly gassy! Fresh and light nigori. You can drink it quickly ⤴︎⤴︎

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# 54

2.72 pt.

Kubohonke Shuzo Nara

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Umami Hot Temperature Dry Acidity Room Temperature Cooled Sake Sharp Shaoxing Wine

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At home. Nara Sake without permission, 12th stage ~‼️ Kubo Honke, a long-established sake brewery in Uda City, Nara Prefecture ~ ‼️ Hatsukasumi and this Soriryu are famous brands. The baseball club team that my sons took care of when they were in junior high school was located in Uda, and this is a nostalgic place where we used to go every weekend. We used to pass by the brewery we visited this time, but this is the first time we visited there. It is called "Sake Brewery Street," but it is really a quiet street. And the taste of the sake.... There is not much aroma, and although you can feel the alcohol in your mouth, the dryness is not so high and the sake is easy to drink. I imagined it would be a dry sake for the experts because it is from a long-established sake brewery, but to my surprise, it is moderately drunk and has a refreshing taste. It is not flashy, but it is a good sake. ‼️

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#Kyoto Karasuma Takoyakushi#, Kyoto, Japan w river/black/gishi/chou Lastly, a comparison 😅 of Sairyu Yamato from Nara. First, "Special Junmai". It's dry 🤔. It's crisp 🤔.

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#Kyoto Karasuma Takoyakushi#, Kyoto, Japan w river/black/gishi/chou Next, "Junmai" by Sairyu Yamato 🤔🤔Dry and crisp... It's wicked to do a drinking comparison at the end 😆. My taste buds are drunk😅. Well, tomorrow is Sendai👍!

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# 55

2.72 pt.

Takanoi Shuzo Niigata

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Wine Cooled Sake Umami Acidity Neat Graceful Dry Crisp

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From the jacket, I thought it would be a light, dry, smooth and elegant type 🤔. When I drank it, I found it to be medium dry with a solid richness and flavor... 😋 I felt like we suddenly became friends🎶. Sauteed peppers with salted kelp (salted kelp flavor), turban shells in a jar, goes well with a variety of Japanese food😻 It's also a great gift 👍✨.

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At the tasting. It's clean, clear and beautiful. Not bad, but I'll hold off. There was a tasting of the raw Izono, but they didn't have it in stock, so I didn't drink it. I'm interested in the raw version.

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I usually don't drink that much 🍷 and 🍶 a little vacation. I only drink Nouveau 🍷 at a small wine specialty shop owned by the owner, who has experience as the best sommelier in Japan every year. (I told him that I actually like Sake and he said that he only drinks Obuse Sogape and one other sake brewery for everyday drinking...I'm curious...wait a minute...he came from the back and brought me this! I'm sorry, I don't know this brewery...but they have hiyaoroshi and yamahai. So he shared his favorite hiyaoroshi with me! It's easy to drink, has a nice mouthfeel, and is dry with a nice flavor and sharpness. It's also delicious and reminds me of a white wine! The Nouveau chosen by the owner this year was expensive... but he said he had no choice because of the weak yen and the international situation.

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# 56

2.72 pt.

Kihei Shizuokakura Kinjo

Shizuoka Hiraki Shuzo Shizuoka

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CherryBlossom Neat Viscous

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I went to the supermarket because I wanted a drink for the evening to drink while watching the opening game of the Premier League. I bought a bottle of Kihei's Omachi, a sake made by the Shizuoka brewery, expecting to like it as much as I liked the gorgeous Omachi. It was not what I had imagined, it was more like a classic Shizuoka sake. It is very light and dry.

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This year, the rice used for the sake has been replaced by 2038 Honorific Fuji, and the label has been redesigned. When you drink it, there is a distinct sweetness at first, but the bitterness comes later and disappears. It has a sweet taste, but it is dry. Since it is dry with a clean aftertaste, it went well with Hamamatsu dumplings (🥟). I think I like this kind of sake lately. By the way, recently chilled dumplings are easy to cook and delicious. They are surprisingly inexpensive.

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After work, I got off at Jujo Station. I thought about going to Saito Bar, my usual favorite restaurant, but today I entered KABURAYA, which is located near the east exit of Jujo Station. The only sake available is "Kihei", Grilled dishes such as yakiton (grilled pork belly), grilled pork, skewers, deep-fried dishes, Shizuoka-style black oden, and other standard items, The menu is excellent with a variety of grilled, deep-fried, and oden dishes, as well as the standard items 👍. Stewed Mutsuna potato salad Fried black hanpen fried squid butcher's mince cutlet Drinks Draft beer (medium) Hanamaru Lemon Sour Original highball Sake (Kihei) Deep fried food is justice. 😊 After all, Kaburaya is a reasonably priced place to enjoy👍.

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# 57

2.71 pt.

Maizuru Shuzo Akita

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Spicy Room Temperature Amino Acidity Cooled Sake Umami Acidity Hot Temperature Grainy

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Rice used is unknown. According to the owner of the sake shop, the sake is aged for three years, but there is no strong sense of aging, and it is a dry junmai-shu with a good acidity. It is a dry junmai-shu with a lot of acidity. The sweetness that spreads fluently and the spicy astringency in the latter half are very unique. After a few days, it becomes more crisp and easy to drink. For my taste, I'd like to have more of a woody or smoky flavor. Either way, it's not a type that will appeal to everyone. The mainstay of this brewery is Yamahai brewing, so it will be interesting to see how peculiar it is.

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The aroma is mild and reserved Crisp, pungent and refreshing on the palate.

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Ripe look like a pickled radish?

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# 58

2.69 pt.

Yonetsuru Shuzo Yamagata

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Special Junmai Tanki Smooth, light, a little bitter. Not gorgeous. Dry taste. No frills👍. Bought at Hasegawa Sake Shop @ Tokyo Station Gransta 20210219

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It was dry but gentle on the palate.

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Color is strong yellowish but easy to drink It has a strong taste, but it's crisp. Easy to drink with no unpleasant sensation

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# 59

2.69 pt.

伊東酒造 Nagano

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Acidity Umami Dry Fizzy Firm Crisp Nutty Sweetness

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Next, Yokobue. This one is also described as dry, but compared to the first glass of Reito, it was fruity and less spicy! It was easy to drink and I downed a whole bottle in no time!

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YOKOBUE - Junmai-brewed Ume-shu (plum wine) 720ml Ingredients: Sake, plums, glacial sugar Alcohol content 11%. This was purchased at the brewery's store in November. This plum wine was the best among all the ones we tasted 😀. After the 3rd day of Honkin, I drank straight Umeshu (plum wine). 11 degrees, but I got drunk very fast. Sometimes plum wine is good... â

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(˶ᐢ˶˶ᐢ˶)🍶🍶🍶🍶 Nagano business trip No.7 I bought a bottle of Yokobue at a local supermarket 😀. I don't think I can detect much aroma 🤔It is a dry Junmai sake with a good balance of rice flavor and acidity 😚👍. After drinking it as a reward for the weekend, I had a local ramen, Harbin Ramen 🍜🥰.

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# 60

2.68 pt.

山中酒造 Shizuoka

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Umami Dry Crisp Soft Nutty Gentle Rich Graceful

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#Hamamatsu# Nagura Sake Shop On the second day back to my parents' house, I first visited Kakegawa's 🍶. We went to a local liquor store and bought a bottle of spring limited edition sake. First time drinking this brand, we had it with my family 😁. I was told that it's good to drink it cold, so I made it very cold ❄️❄️ When I opened the bottle, the aroma was not so strong, probably because it was chilled... When I put it in my mouth, I could feel the coldness and the richness of the flavor. And a good amount of spiciness... It's delicious, I can drink it easily 😆😆😆.

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The one I went to a liquor store I don't usually go to after a baseball game and drank after I got home. It tastes like Aizan, but is closer to a classic. It is spicy with a little sweetness. It tastes hotter than when I tasted it. It is spicy even if the temperature is changed. I think it is hard to drink by itself. When it gets close to room temperature, the sweetness comes out, but the spiciness and alcohol taste also become stronger.

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I bought it at my usual Marunaka Ohashi Shoten (🍶) and asked the landlady to make a dry selection for me 🍶. 720ml 📌 ¥1,650 It's the second day of the party with my mother-in-law💕. Here's a quick rice 💕 The aroma is fruity💕 Color is light golden💕 The mouthfeel is a little thick💕 It's dry but you can feel the sweetness💕You can also feel the umami of the rice💕It goes in smoothly💕May be a dangerous sake😅. Today's pairing is grilled tuna kama-yaki, sushi roll, tekkimaki and sashimi💕 They go so, so, so, so well💕! Drinking sake with my granddaughter is the best 💕💕💕My mother-in-law is also happy and it's really a great party👍👍👍👍 I recommend this sake 😁 please try it 👍It's a great sake for a meal 👍✌️

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