This is an autumn limited edition Junmai Ginjo from Kankoubai! The light pear-like fruity taste has a hint of rice-derived umami, and the sourness and bitterness give it a crisp, clean taste!
Aroma and flavor derived from rice + A delightful bottle that allows you to feel various sensations from fruity aroma to sourness, bitterness, and numbness. Like the temperature change in this autumn, the season's turning point. It will be a good match for a variety of autumn tastes.
It has a fruity and mild mouthfeel, with a tasty rice-derived flavor and a good sharpness. It has a good balance of sweetness and acidity. After a week of storage in the refrigerator after opening the bottle, there was a moment when I felt a slight fresh mint taste. Please enjoy it with a glass of wine.
It has a sweet and sour aroma like green apple and pineapple, followed by a pleasant bitterness that is crisp and clean. I like the simple and modern design of the Daimine Three Grains series. There are so many varieties that I am bothered by them lol
It has various fruity aromas like melon, pineapple, and green apple, then sweetness and acidity, then the umami from the rice shows its face, and finally it has a bittersweet feeling and a nice sharpness! The changes in flavor are enjoyable♪ We recommend drinking it chilled in a wine glass! I got it for a quarter of the price because I won it in a gacha at Sotonoike Brewery in Mashiko. Thanks a lot!
Since I usually drink junmai ginjo, I thought I would like a dry sake once in a while, but it was not my favorite when served cold. However, when warmed up, it has a full aroma and sweet and sour taste, which goes well with hot pots and oden. It needs to be paired with the right temperature range. At any rate, the label is cool!
This is a sparkling sake from the Sanran brand of the Tonoike Shuzo brewery in Mashiko City, Tochigi Prefecture! The use of white malted rice gives this sake a sparkling taste and a refreshing acidity and aroma like white wine, which spreads in the mouth! Finally, you feel the sake. It has won the gold medal at the Delicious Sake in a Glass of Wine Award 2025. It has become a regular summer event to have coffee and amazake soft drink at the Sotaike Sake Brewery Cafe and buy some as a souvenir.â
Lovely label that represents summeriness! A perfect jacket buy! It has a sweet, banana-like taste, and is a crisp, clean bottle. 500w✖️80s and warmed to lukewarm, it has a nice, warm banana-like aroma. Pair it with sweets such as Japanese sweets!
OCEAN99 Series "HOSHIUMI" is an unfiltered unpasteurized sake from Kangiku Meikozo, a sake brewery located near Kujukurihama beach. It has a fruity aroma like pineapple with a good balance of sweetness and acidity. It has a refreshing sharpness. The label is also stylish. Recommended for an elegant moment.
Chill it in the refrigerator and enjoy it with a glass of wine.
Nanaroman from the Loman series! The bright label is eye-catching. It has a banana and melon-like aroma that changes to a refreshingly crisp taste, and a lingering aftertaste that will numb your tongue!
[The five special characteristics of the Loman series are as follows]
(1) Rice: 100% Aizu rice
(2) Water: "Takashimizu" and "Jizosawa", both of which are famous for being selected as one of the 100 best waters in the Suigen no Mori (Water Source Forest).
(3) Brewer: People from Minami Aizu Nango area
(4) Yeast: Fukushima Prefecture-developed Utsukushima Yume Yeast
(5) Industry: Traditional four-stage brewing of glutinous rice
Hiran" from Mori Sake Brewery, the pride of Hirado City, Nagasaki Prefecture
A modern bottle with elegance from start to finish!
Tailings and yeast are doing a good job? In addition to the clean, elegant richness, sweetness, and umami, it also has an elegant acidity and is very crisp and clean. Some tongue numbing aftertaste. A sake that gives you a sense of elegance.
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The brewery uses three times as much malted rice as the original, giving it a rich milky taste like amazake, followed by a refreshing sourness. As the label says, it is recommended to drink on the rocks. It is rare in the sake world for sake to be served on the rocks! Just like cold Yakult or Calpis, this is a perfect summer bottle!
The sweetness comes from the rice and is quickly replaced by a light, watery mouthfeel, with a hint of sourness. There is almost no bitterness. This is a bottle that has a traditional feel, but has been micro-changed.
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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