You can feel the chiri-chiri-chiri gas, and the fruity, Kamishinko-like sweetness and umami come, and then tighten up with bitterness and acidity. Like the color of the label, this bottle offers a variety of tastes!
Senkin-san's Seasonal Series: Summer Kabutomushi. It has a subtle aroma of rice-derived kamishinko, and the moment you put it in your mouth, it has a refreshing acidity like white wine, which is then taken away by the bitterness. It is delicious on the rocks with ice only in summer. We recommend pairing it with vermicelli salad, pickles, pickled plums with honey, and other refreshing small bowls of food as a tonal accompaniment to the acidity.
This bottle has an elegant pineapple-like aroma and sweetness, with a medium lingering taste, and after a slight bitterness, the flavor seems to disappear when you notice it. It is best served with fruit.
[Tidbits of knowledge]
The name "Toyo Bijin" comes from the fact that it was named in memory of the late wife of the first brewer. The fourth generation of the family, Mr. Yoshifumi Sumikawa, has taken advantage of his training at the Takagi Sake Brewery to improve the quality of sake and introduce new sake brewing techniques.
Koueikiku's 2025 Summer Sake "Noon Crescent" First of all, the bottle was opened with a bang! Even after a day of drinking, the bottle was still popping! From the yogurt and Kamishinko-like aroma, a refreshing sweetness like elegant white soda and a slight carbonation are felt, followed by sourness and bitterness, and then a lingering finish that is medium and relatively sharp. Later, the umami derived from the rice also spreads. You can feel the arrival of summer from its vigor. It can be enjoyed on its own.
Rice used: 78% Ginpu
Yeast used: Saga Hagakure yeast
Alcohol content: 13% abv.
Kangiku Meikyu brews a very limited Occasional Series only once a year. It was created with the desire to color everyday life with special moments.
The mouthfeel has a slight chirichiri-ness and an elegant sweetness like pineapple, followed by a rice-derived umami and bitterness like Kamishinko, and then a crisp and clean taste! It is also a stylish sake.
Sake rice: Omachi
Rice polishing ratio: 50%.
Alcohol content: 15
It has a subtle aroma of bananas and freshly ground coffee, and when you put it in your mouth, it has a pleasant crunchiness, an elegant yogurt-like sweetness, and a good bitterness. This is a stylish bottle that shows the taste of the brewer. It is likely to be consumed immediately.
The attack is sweet and tasty, with a slight banana aroma and a slight banana, koshinko, and rice-like flavor. The bitterness immediately follows, followed by sourness, then bitterness again, with a medium lingering aftertaste. I personally like it because of its individuality. How about pairing it with appetizers or sashimi?
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SENKIN's seasonal series "SAKURA~OHANAMI~"! This is a sweet, tasty, and refreshing bottle with an aroma like bananas and kamishinko, sweetness, and sourness! It is good to drink as it is or with nuts or dried fruits! Please enjoy it with a glass of wine!
This is a rare unfiltered pure rice sake from the Yamahai region. It is a refreshingly dry type of sake with sweetness, acidity, bitterness, and a crisp, clean taste, making it perfect for a mealtime drink! It is very easy to drink, so be careful!
It has a fruity aroma like a pear, sweetness and umami like a rice-derived Kamishinko, acidity, and bitterness, and finishes with a nice crispness! It can be served chilled as it is, or as a mid-meal sake!
The medium-hard water from the Akiyama River, a first-class river in Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture, has been selected as one of the 100 best waters in Japan. The symbol mark embodies the use of this good water and its sublimation into a gorgeous sake. The multiple layers of ripples weave together to form a single flower. This flower on the label is also available in silver and gold, but blue is for summer sake. It fits perfectly with the current hot weather.
A refreshing drink that is perfect as a mid-meal drink! The moderate acidity gives it a sweetness like that of rice-derived Kamishinko, and it is a very crisp and clean bottle. It is a versatile sake that goes well with both light and heavy meals.
Koei Kiku's SUKAI 2024 Special Junmai Unfiltered Nama Sake. It has a refreshing citrus-like aroma attack, medium acidity, bitterness, rice-derived sweetness, umami, and a lower-middle level of numbing sensation on the tongue. It is best enjoyed on a sunny day.
Fukuoka Prefecture is proud of its Tanaka Rokuugo junmai sake. Itoshima City is famous for its Yamada Nishiki. This sake with a rice polishing ratio of 65% comes from the rice paddies of the famous Yamada-Nishiki. The aroma is like that of top-grade rice or Kamishinko, followed by a fruity aroma attack like melon. It is a crisp and clean bottle. It is a junmai sake, but it is like a junmai ginjo sake, with elements of mellow sake and fresh sake. Anyway, it is suitable as a food sake. It is my favorite.
Sake Brewery Memo
Tanaka Rokugo brews only one junmai sake. Sake that the Shiraito Brewery wants to share with the world. Sake that we really want to convey to the world. When I thought about it, the answer came naturally.
It is the hesitation that fades away, and the individuality that swells up becomes the future.
By continuing, a form will take root. This will become the high standard for Fukuoka sake.
[Reference] http://www.shiraito.com/tanaka-65/
Shuho Junmai Daiginjo Super Dry from Yamagata Prefecture! Immediately after opening the bottle, the aroma is like rice, rice malt, and joshinko, then sweetness, umami, and bitterness, and then it is smooth and crisp, making it the perfect food sake! This is exactly what I was personally looking for. From about the third day after opening the bottle, the aroma changes to a slightly pear-like fruity characteristic, and the bitterness, although still present, is mellowed. I felt it would be better to drink it early and finished it off. Thank you very much for the drink.
From its fruity and gorgeous pear-like aroma, it does not betray its image when you put it in your mouth; in fact, the fruity sensation surpasses it! It is a bottle that has a strong presence both on its own and as a food sake. The yeast "CEL-24" developed by the Kochi Prefectural Industrial Technology Center seems to be doing a good job. Please enjoy it well chilled in a wine glass.
Taikan Junmai Ginjo Unfiltered Nama-shu
Made with "Yamadanishiki" produced in Minami-Alps City
This bottle has an aroma of banana, nuts, and joshinko, with sweetness, bitterness, and acidity derived from the rice and rice malt. It has a good sharpness. It goes well with nuts and sweets!
It has a subtle woody aroma, a nutty flavor such as almonds and cashews, a moderate acidity, an elegant feeling, a slightly bitter aftertaste, and a good sharpness, giving it the impression of a casually smart adult sake.
AKABU is the pride of Iwate Prefecture! Junmai Ginjo.
Elegantly fragrant, with a fruity, melon-like aroma on the attack, and a slight bitterness followed by a rice-derived umami. It has a relatively crisp feel. After all, the label is cool and I like it ^ ^.
The pride of Fukui Prefecture, "Kuroryu" style♪ A fruity aroma like banana, a sense of alcohol that passes through the nose, and a refreshingly crisp taste.