Closed today.
The city celebrates Christmas Eve and I celebrate at home with sake.
I chose Ura-Roman.
Fruity aroma, sweetness and umami.
It finishes with spiciness and acidity.
We celebrated with a delicious cup of sake.
Drinking at home.
Today's drink is Junmai Daiginjo of Aizu Nakasyo Yume no Kaori, which was given to me by my nephew the other day.
It is served with octopus, simmered, grilled chicken, and kakuni.
The aroma is not strong, and the sweetness comes first, followed by the spiciness, and then the umami.
It is a delicious food sake.
It is a delicious food sake, and the octopus flavor is a perfect complement to it.
It is a good sake for a meal.
Home drinking.
Today, only lunch.
This sake was purchased for a festival on a trip to Sendai.
It is a delicious sake with a spicy and sour taste, not strongly smelling.
It is suitable for sashimi and simmered dishes.
It is a perfect sake for a meal that enhances the flavor of the food.
Delicious.
Drinking at home.
Today's drink is a sake that goes well with the fish from Hitakami, which we bought at the festival of our recent trip to Sendai.
It is served with sashimi, aji (horse mackerel) and fried amaebi (sweet shrimp).
After the sashimi, the spiciness comes first on the palate, and then it breaks off cleanly.
The aroma is not strong, and only the umami flavor remains, eliminating the sense of the sashimi's rockiness.
It is a delicious cup.
Drinking at home.
After work, I had a drink today.
I had a glass of Dewazuru Aki-agari, which I got from an acquaintance the other day, heated up to 45℃ because it was getting cold.
I served it with homemade oden and fried flounder.
The aroma is only slightly sweet, but the sweetness, spiciness, and acidity combine to create a delicious taste.
It had a strong umami flavor and was perfect for a mealtime drink.
Drinking at home.
Today's drink is SENKYO HOPE.
It is a sake for the Noto Peninsula disaster relief.
It starts with a refreshing aroma, followed by the sweet and sour taste characteristic of Sengkyo, and then it finishes.
The sourness remains, but it was refreshing when paired with salted salmon.
It is a delicious drink. It is delicious.
Home drinking. Lunch only.
This time, it is a light, dry sake, Kafuda-shu Tsukihaku.
The usual sashimi, yakitori (grilled chicken), and simmered dishes are the usual choices.
The aroma starts with a ginjo aroma, the taste is umami from the spiciness, and then it quickly wears off.
A delicious drink.
It enhances the flavor of the food without interfering with it.
Home drinking.
Closed today, only lunch.
Today's drink is "Bon" which we found at the supermarket.
We had sashimi, yakitori, and simmered dishes.
The aroma is fruity.
The taste is spicy and sweet, and it cuts through the flavor.
It also removes the smell of shellfish and brings out its umami.
It is a food sake.
It is a delicious drink.
Drinking at home, lunch only.
Today's sake is Junmai Ginjyo Akita Komachi.
The menu includes assorted sashimi, aji-nanban, and simmered dishes.
The first impression is that the fruity aroma is not strong, but the spiciness comes first.
Next, the spiciness is cut off with umami.
It is a delicious cup.
It is delicious.
Home drinking.
Today, only lunch.
First time at Urakasumi Zen.
Sashimi, yakitori, oden, and aji no nanban.
The aroma is only slightly fragrant.
It tastes deliciously spicy and enhances the flavor of the food. It is a delicious food sake.
Drinking at home.
Today was my first time drinking Chiba's sake Fudo.
The first impression is that it is a deliciously spicy sake.
The aroma is not strong, with only a slight ginjo aroma.
The taste starts with spiciness and ends with umami.
It is a refreshing and delicious drink.
Drinking at home.
Closed today.
Only had lunch for the first time in a while.
Today is the last bottle of sake I got on my trip last month.
The first aroma is more of a sake aroma than a fruity aroma, a bit like smoked fish.
When paired with ate no sashimi, yakitori, and okara (bean curd), it enhances the spiciness and umami of the dish.
It is a delicious food sake that I felt during my trip.
Drinking at home.
Only lunch today.
I bought a bottle of Tetorigawa Junmai Daiginjo on my trip to Kanazawa last week.
It is served with sashimi, grilled hokke and chikuzen-ni.
When the bottle is opened, the gas escapes.
The aroma is not fruity, but rather matured and fermented.
It has a deliciously spicy flavor with little sweetness.
It has a heavy feeling that one would not expect from a 14% alcohol content.
ps: The comparison was the Daishinshu Junmai Daiginjo Hiyoroshi that I posted last time.
When opened, the drink started out spicy, but as time passed, the spiciness turned to sweetness and the deliciousness increased.
Sake is a strange drink.
Drinking at home.
Sake purchased in Matsumoto on a trip last week.
A bottle I have wanted to try for a long time.
It is a Junmai Daiginjo from Daishinshu.
When drunk cold, the spiciness was strong at first, but as it warmed up, the spiciness turned to sweetness.
I adjusted the temperature to match today's appetizers (Aji Nanban, Yakitori, Amaebi Karaage).
The umami was strongly felt, and the sake was easy to drink.
Drinking at home.
Compared to the previous Hourai, the aroma of melon comes and the sweetness is stronger.
After the umami taste in the mouth, the spiciness comes.
It is delicious.
It is more suitable for dessert than Hourai.
Drinking at home.
Today, we are going to compare two major brands (Hourai and W) of Watanabe Shuzo that we got in Hida Takayama, which we visited last week.
The first one is Hourai.
The aroma is not strong, and the flavor comes from the spiciness.
It is a clear and sharp sake.
It is delicious.
Next is W.
Drinking at home.
The second drink was my first Mizuo.
I bought it at a liquor store on the way from Takayama to Matsumoto.
Compared to the previous Hourai, it is a refreshing drink.
It has a good balance of sweetness, acidity, and spiciness without being strongly assertive, making it a delicious food sake.
What should I try next?
Drinking at home.
Today's drink is Hourai (Watanabe Shuzo) hiyaoroshi, which was purchased during a trip to Kanazawa, Hida Takayama, and Matsumoto in Shinshu (present-day Nagano Prefecture) with my wife.
I chose this bottle after drinking a variety of sake.
I bought autumn sake at various places.
We served it with fried amaebi (sweet shrimp), aji (horse mackerel), and roast duck.
The aroma is not strong, but the sourness and umami come through, and it cuts cleanly.
Although some acidity remains, it is a delicious drink.
Drinking at home.
The second glass was Eikofuji's aged Kurakakushi Hiyahi-oroshi.
The taste is clean and dry.
The spiciness comes along with a hint of fruity aroma, and the spiciness flows out the character of the sake and turns it into umami.
It is a refreshing and delicious drink.
It is a food sake.
It seems to go with everything.