The top aroma is sweet and fruity, like melon. On the palate, there is a sweetness like melon or rumney, but the bitterness follows, giving it a nice sharpness. It is a beautiful sake and still delicious.
This sake is made by storing the raw sake in ice temperature for a year and a half. With an alcohol content of 16ºC, it has a firm alcohol taste with a banana-like aroma, sweetness, and a slightly thick texture. Good as a food sake.
This is one of the bottles from the Nama-Hashiroshi brewing sake comparison that was won in the sake raffle at the Rikishi Kura Matsuri 2025 held last Saturday. It is a freshly stored sake brewed with sake musashi, a sake rice produced in Saitama Prefecture. It has a smooth, smooth taste and is easy to drink. The alcohol content is a little high at 16 degrees, but the mild and delicious flavor will keep you coming back for more.
We enjoy this sake with firefly squid, which is in season right now, as a mealtime drink. It makes me happy!
I went to the brewery festival of Kamaya, a sake brewery in Kazo City, Saitama Prefecture, my hometown. I had wanted to visit the brewery for a long time, so I was happy to be able to attend the brewery festival, which was held for the first time in six years.
The bottle I drank with my dinner was a limited edition sake that I won in the sake raffle at the festival. It has a sweet and acidic taste derived from the sake yeast, and a very good umami flavor. If there is sake, the world is good. If you are a sumo wrestler, you are even happier.
This is one of the bottles from the Team Ishikawa set that was purchased at UTAGE in January. It is said to be a Yamahai Kijoshu made from sake brewed with Hyakumangoku No Shiro, a sake rice recently developed by Ishikawa Prefecture, and Kinshu, the oldest native rice. It is not too sweet, but has just the right amount of bitterness and umami. It is still my favorite sake brewery.
This sake has a robust sweetness and acidity, like a dessert wine. It tastes like grapes and honey, with a pleasant aftertaste. Yet, it has a refreshing aftertaste.
The aroma is mild and the alcohol content is a solid 20%, but it is easy to drink. It is very good as a food sake. I have always wanted to try a sake made by Mr. Naohiko Noguchi, and now I finally have. It is also cosmetically pleasing!
I found this Junmai Daiginjo by Tobiroki when I visited Matsuzaki in Kawagoe. It had been about 15 years since I had tasted Tobiroki itself. The mouthfeel is gentle and the aroma is mild, but the fruity sweetness spreads. After that, a moderate bitterness gives it a nice sharpness. It is still delicious.
This hop saké is brewed with Yamadanishiki rice from Miki City, Hyogo Prefecture. It is drier and drier tasting than the previous Hanakaze. It has a lychee-like fruity flavor, so it might be better to drink it at the end as a dessert sake rather than a mid-meal drink.
This is a test brew from the Urasato Sake Brewery. It is said to be brewed with a sake yeast called sanki amazake moto, which was discontinued during the Meiji era (1868-1912). This method involves making amazake and adding lactic acid bacteria to it. It has a rich, mellow taste with a strong sense of sourness, sweetness, and umami.
The label is cool, like a starry sky, typical of Tsukuba, a place associated with science and space. It has a fruity, mellow, melon-like flavor with a crisp, refreshing finish. It is still my favorite, delicious sake.
Junmai Daiginjo Omachi arrived in the last installment of Nanbu Bijin's regular delivery. It has ample sweetness and a mellow, full flavor. It has a pear-like fruity taste and a good sharpness.
Sake by Team Ishikawa sold at UTAGE. It is a collaboration of sake from Noto sake brewery Hiyoshi Sake Brewery's Ore no Sake and Yoshida Sake Brewery's Tedorigawa. While super dry, it tastes juicy and fresh. We will be happy if we can help support the recovery efforts in any way while enjoying the delicious sake.
A bottle of Team Ishikawa purchased at UTAGE, a long awaited sake that has been waiting for nearly two months to arrive. It is a collaboration between Tsuruno Sake Brewery and Yoshida Sake Brewery, both of which were affected by the Noto earthquake and tsunami, and will help support the victims.
The sake is a noble sake, so it is sweet enough, but has a nice sharpness, probably due to the sparkling nature of the sake. I love the taste!
Sakura OHANAMI is a spring sake with a sweet peachy aroma and a bitter sweet and sour taste. The sharpness is very good. It is lightly nigori (light nigori), but the supernatant portion is also drinkable, so it can be enjoyed twice.
S Kaze no Mori is a farmer's sake sold by Sugiura Noen, a farmer who delivers rice called Akitsuho to Aburacho Brewery. It has a sweetness like a ramune, but while the mouthfeel cuts through easily, the aftertaste is complex with a lingering finish. Nice!
While eating oysters raw or in a pot, we had a bottle of Nanbu Bijin Junmai Daiginjo. It has a unique aroma with a strong sweetness. It has a pleasant aftertaste that spreads across the palate, but is quickly cut by the palate.
The 15th in the series of rice and agave test vats is a craft saké brewed in collaboration with the Japan Herb Research Institute, using plants and trees (herbs) of Japanese origin as secondary ingredients. The aroma is soothing at first, and the taste is very good. The relaxing effect can be fully felt.
It has been 14 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake. We are thinking of the people in Tohoku and enjoying a glass of Shizen Shu Hatsuyuki. It is brewed with brewer's yeast without any yeast additives. It is sweet and sour with a nice sharp taste.