Rice polishing ratio: 70
Alcohol percentage: 17
Production date: September 2023
Warmed
Slight sweetness
Delicious taste of rice
Sour and crisp aftertaste
Slightly sweet with a hint of sourness
Moderate and mild
Rice used: Hazuki Minori
Rice polishing ratio: 90
Alcohol content: 16
The first new sake
First time to use 90% polished rice
Sweetness and sourness of apricots and plums
Sweetness and acidity with a gusto
Plenty of richness
Alcohol content: 15%.
Production Date: September 2023
The aroma is clean.
The taste is also clean and mild, with a sense of being able to cut through quickly.
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The flavor increases a little when it is heated, but the mildness remains the same.
It gives a subdued impression, but it is easy to match with meals.
Alcohol content: 15%.
The bottle was opened with a splash of soda.
Fruity aroma, slightly lactic
A little lactic acidity.
Grape-like sweetness and acidity
Slightly astringent in the latter half
Milky when stirred
Wife says it is strawberry cider.
Just a year ago, when I started drinking sake
I thought, "This is good! I thought it was a good one!
We enjoyed it again this year.
Rice used: Hitogochiki grown in Nagano Prefecture
Polishing ratio: Koji rice 55%, Kake rice 70%.
Alcohol percentage: 15
Production Date: June 2023
Sake Brewer's Shipment Date: September 2023
It has a trendy sweet and sour taste, but also has a strong umami of rice.
It has a good balance of sweetness and acidity, which is popular, but it also has a good flavor of rice.
Rice used: 6% Yamadanishiki from Shiga Prefecture (mother rice)
Omachi 94% from Okayama Prefecture (moromi)
Rice polishing ratio: 55
Alcohol percentage: 17
Production date: September 2023
Cold Sake
It has a classic alcohol smell and a full rice aroma.
It has the acidity and robustness of Yamahai.
It has the acidity and robustness of Yamahai, but also sweetness and umami from Omachi.
The aftertaste is bitter and sharp.
The sake maker says it is still young, but it is more than enough to be tasty.
Warmed
The corners have been removed and the aroma and taste are more rice-like, which is also delicious.
I've been drinking mostly fruity sake for a year now, but I've finally gotten around to heating it up.
Rice used: 54% Akita Sake Komachi from Akita Prefecture/46% Yamadanishiki from Hyogo Prefecture
Rice polishing ratio: 45
Alcohol percentage: 16
Production date: September 2023
It has a sweet aroma of chocolate. Really?
I didn't feel it on the second day, so maybe I'm imagining it.
Mild sweetness and umami
Lack of miscellaneous flavors that seems to be due to high refining
Rice polishing ratio: 60
Alcohol percentage: 15
Production date: September 2023
Owl label
The bottle was opened with a "pshhshh" sound. When opened, it has a gaseous feeling.
Fruity and mildly sweet with a sense of freshness. Pear-like.
It goes really well with pears.
Rice polishing ratio: 55
Alcohol percentage: 16
Production date: April 2023
It has a beautiful, sugary sweetness that is typical of Genmai.
It is cut off later by a bit of spiciness. There is also a slight astringency.
Compared to other Genmai, both sweetness and pungency are moderate.
But I prefer this one in terms of balance.
It went very well with the grapes we received,
Rice polishing ratio: 60
Alcohol content: 13%.
Crisp, light and sharp impression.
A bit of a piquant feeling.
While feeling lactic acidity, the sweetness is moderate, and the acidity and astringency are not so much.
As described on the bottle
Unpretentious
crisp
Refreshing
Impression
Rice used: Comet
Rice polishing ratio: 55
Alcohol content: 55
This sake was recommended to me at a sake shop as the first sake I should drink at Sanzen Sakura.
Grape-like aroma.
Strong sweetness, followed by umami.
Then, the flavor is followed by a spicy finish.
I have had the Comet saké once before, but it had a very different impression from the Comet saké, which was refreshingly dry.
I felt it was similar to Genmai, but maybe it was just me.
Rice used: Miyamanishiki produced in Nagano Prefecture
Rice polishing ratio: 59
Alcohol percentage: 14
Production date: February 2023
The sweetness, crisp acidity, and a hint of astringency are reminiscent of white wine.
It reminds me of white wine.
It is sweeter and easier to drink than the previous Sisu.
Although it is labeled as not suitable for aging and as a beautiful thin wine, I enjoyed it very much without any sense of discomfort.
Rice polishing ratio: 65
Alcohol content: 15
Production date: April 6, 2023
Sake received as a gift from Niigata.
It is not fruity, but has a full flavor
It is not fruity, but has a full flavor and does not interfere with meals.
Polishing ratio: Koji rice: 50%, Kake rice: 60
Production Date : August, 2023
Aroma of apple and pear
Mild umami and sweetness.
The spiciness in the latter half is also mild and cuts through nicely.
It is deeply delicious.
Year of manufacture: December 2022
Perhaps due to the fact that it had laid around for a while after purchase at the beginning of the year.
The pizzazz had calmed down a bit, but I still felt some gas.
After the fruity sweetness, there was plenty of rice and koji flavor.
It cuts off nicely with the acidity in the latter half.
Rice polishing ratio: 55
Production date: May 2023
Aroma of grapes and pears
Strong sweetness, immediately followed by spiciness, then a little sourness and astringency.
This time, I felt the pungency quite strongly.
Fruity aroma, slight gasiness.
Sweetness, followed by bitterness and astringency at about the same time, and acidity.
Sweetness, followed by bitterness and astringency at about the same time, and acidity.
I don't think the sweetness is that strong.
After a few days, the bitterness subsided and the sweetness increased.
It is not too strong, so it is good both by itself and with a meal.
Rice used: Dewanosato
Rice polishing ratio: 33
Fruity aroma, not flashy.
A little bit of cemedine
Not too much sweetness due to its super dryness.
Easy to drink
Rice polishing ratio: 55
It is said that white malted rice is used.
Aroma: Lactic acid, citrus.
The bubbles are rather large, with carbon dioxide gas injected.
The sweetness is there, but it seems to be washed away by the carbonation.
I can taste a little sourness in the latter half.
I would prefer a more delicate atmosphere.
I felt it was kind of thin.
Rice used: Hokkaido Comet
Rice polishing ratio: 60
Lactic acid-like aroma with a slight cemedine smell.
Almost no sweetness.
It is cut off by bitterness and spiciness.
As the bottle description says, the impression is sharp and light.
8/23 Postscript
It was too hot to drink sake, so it has been a week since I had it.
Melon and grape type aroma. Although the alcohol feeling has come out, I can feel the sweetness and fullness, and I think I like it better now as a balance.