We started the New Year with Tasake and 🍶 Masu!
With Japanese sweets from Patisserie de Bonne Au Gour (translation: Patisserie of good luck) in Yushima♪
Wishing you a happy new year ✨
At the 2024 Year-End Party 🍶.
We had the luxury of eating eel with "Raifuku mellow eel pure rice UNAGI-RAIFUKU" ✨.
Is it because the owner aged it? Is that the original color of the sake? The color of the sake had a slight yellow tinge.
Both are delicious 😋.
2024 Year-End Party🍶.
I drank soooooooo much peace water that day!
Thanks to that, no alcohol remained the next day and no details of taste memory remained... 😂.
I do remember it was a fun and tasty time 🤣🎉
2024 Year-End Party🍶.
The owner recommended the sake that was served in the style of the restaurant, which was appreciated from a sake beginner ✨I'm glad to meet a variety of sake: ☺️
2024 Year-End Party🍶Third Sake
To-bin-tori" was my first sake word!
I learned it from an article by SAKE TIMES 📖.
▼ https://jp.sake-times.com/knowledge/word/sake_tobindori
To-bin-tori" means that the sake is extracted by squeezing the unrefined sake using a container called a "tobin", which is said to be very valuable because only a small amount can be extracted.
Did they serve gorgeous sake as the meal progressed? It tasted very good!
Nurukan Festival at Marunouchi's Nurukan Sato 🍶.
Toichi, Kusudama, Shinkame and...I think one more was Kido?
I thought the Shinkame had a dense sweetness like Japanese sweets! I was surprised at the taste I had never had before 😋!
Kusudama was very dry, and it was fun to compare them.
I also enjoyed the other sakes with the chicken shirato-yu oden🍢. The thickly seasoned Soboro (minced fish cake) served as a side dish is also delicious! It makes the sake go down a treat. Also, I'm glad the water was so cold...lol. It was very tasty!
Enjoy sake and Tosa cuisine at Tosa Cuisine Neboke.
From the appetizers to the food, such as bonito, kuei, and utsubo, the menu was full of delicious dishes!
Tosa Tsuru Tsukasa Junmai Daiginjo-shu, a sake exclusive to this restaurant, was also very nice!
The "Tosa Jizake" served hot was also mild and delicious....
NAMICAN" Wakanami Shuzo 🍶 Aluminum Can Sake for Outdoor Use
[100% Yamadanishiki, 60% polished rice]
Lighter than bottles and seems to be easy to carry. ...... drank it during a very indoor lunchtime drinking session 😂When you throw away bottles, you have to peel off the label, but with cans it's a little easier to throw away.
When I drank it, I was impressed by the flavor of the rice and the heat as it went down my throat. When I think of casual sake, I have a strong image of "light and fruity," but I thought it had a moderately robust feeling.
The label is also fashionable and nice. It is fun to look at the label design of sake.
I accompanied it with "Udonatsu" from Marugame Seimen! I think it was a better match with the konpota flavor than the sweet chocolate flavor 🌽The konpota flavor is sweet too, but the salty flavor did a good job!
It's "Kyokan Junmai Kagatobi." 🍶 It's dry with a sake rating of +4.
It is dry with a sake strength of +4, but I could taste the umami and sweetness of the rice, and it was juicy like ripe fruit 😋😋😋😋😋.
And yet, the aftertaste is still refreshing. Delicious!
The Kameda Seika "Afternoon Pick-me-up Seasonal Seasonal" that I purchased as a snack was an assortment of Japanese style snacks!
The slightly spicy snacks such as Kurokosho-mame (black pepper beans) and chili-sen (red pepper paste) matched the sweetness and umami of Kagatobi.
Both the drinks and snacks were very tasty 🥰.
Sake comparison at home!
We chose 3 kinds of sake from "Fukumitsuya", a long-established sake brewery in Kanazawa.
Fukumasa Munune Junmai Dry, Nama Zume.
This was the first sake made with black malted rice. I felt a bit salty, but I wondered if this was the richness found in sake made with "black koji"?
Wind, Water, Man, Junmai 9
It is a junmai sake with an alcohol content of 9 degrees Celsius and a refreshing taste. I would like to drink it with pasta or Italian food!
Fukumaso Sake: Hyoketsu Nama-Shu Dry
With a sake alcohol content of +10%, it has a very strong sake taste! I would like to drink it with a salty meal and sip it while neutralizing the taste.
It was interesting to compare the different types of sake and to see the difference between them. ☺️
Kiku-Masamune Shuzo Ginneo Cup" was purchased at a convenience store. It was fruity and very easy to drink🍶 with a clean sweet taste.
I am glad that I can easily buy it when I want to drink at home. ☺️