At a sushi restaurant in the Tokyo Station Hotel. First up was a dry special junmai.
Rice: Dewa Tsanzan, Gohyakumangoku
Polishing ratio 55
Yeast: In-house yeast
Sake meter: +12
Acidity 1.3
Alcohol 16.0
At a small restaurant in Kyobashi, Osaka.
A very palatable sweet sake.
Even people who don't like sake can drink this.
Ingredients: Yamadanishiki, rice malt (domestic rice)
Rice polishing ratio 55
Sake degree -3
Acidity 1.4
Alc. 17.0
A rare sake that tastes great hot.
Sake No. 6 is made with Association No. 6 yeast.
Also known as Shinsei yeast.
The taste is refreshing and crisp when heated. It has a nice sharpness. I drank it cold, but warming it up is the right way to drink it.
Rice : Koji rice, Japanese rice, Polishing ratio 65
Kake rice : Domestic rice, Polishing ratio 65
Yeast used: Association No. 6
Alcoholic strength: 15
It has been a long time since I have had Nada sake. It is another label of Izumi Shuzo, famous for Senzuke. This is the first time I have had it.
It is an elegant dry sake, far from the image of Nada's sake as a man's sake.
The unfiltered unpasteurized sake is fresh and delicious.
Ingredients: Rice (domestic), rice malt (domestic)
Rice polishing ratio 70%.
Alcohol content 16
I've never heard of this sake.
It is a sake that is both a little sweet and dry, but perhaps the bottle had been opened a little while and the taste was a little blurred. I heard it is actually quite sharp.
Ingredients: Rice (domestic), rice malt (domestic)
Rice: 100% Gin-no-Iroha
Polishing ratio 50%.
Alcohol content 15
I impulsively bought a four-pack of Edo Kaijo, the sake from Minato-ku that I drank with people from overseas the other day, because it was on sale at Ginza Mitsukoshi.
When I opened the bottle that day, it was instantly delicious.
I would buy it again if I ever come across it, Edo Kaijo. I can't believe they use tap water in Tokyo.
Ingredients : Rice (domestic) / Rice Koji (domestic)
Rice polishing ratio : 60
Alcohol content : 15% alcohol by volume
Sake that goes well with sushi is supervised by a sushi chef in Hokkaido.
Hokkaido's sushi artisans supervise the brewing of sake that goes well with sushi. Otokoyama's Tsumatsumari.
We had it while picking up seafood sushi from Hokkaido. It has a refreshing taste and does not interfere with the sushi.
Ingredients: Rice (domestic), Rice Koji (domestic)
Rice polishing ratio 55
Alcohol content 15
Japan's easternmost sake, Kitanokatsu.
If you come to Nemuro Hanamaru here in Shimbashi, you should definitely try it.
It is a regular sake, but it has no unpleasant taste and goes really well with Nemuro's seafood.
It goes really well with Nemuro's seafood.
Polishing ratio 71
Sake degree +1.0
Alcohol content 15.7
Toyama's Kokokuharu Sake Brewery was a pop-up at the Takashimaya Department Store in Nihonbashi. I tasted and unexpectedly purchased a bottle of Gen no Taki Junmai Ginjo Hiyoroshi.
Two months after I bought it, I opened the bottle.
The acidity is firm, followed by the umami of the rice. The brewing water is Iwase family's fresh water from the Kurobe River fan spring, one of the 100 best waters in Japan.
It is delicious.
Ingredients: Rice (domestic), Rice Koji (domestic)
Alcohol content 15
Rice polishing ratio 60
It's a sake made in Minato Ward, Tokyo! I recommended it to great people in Spain and Australia.
They said it was very tasty and wine lovers said it was very good.
Ingredients : Rice (domestic) / Rice Koji (domestic)
Rice polishing ratio : 60
Alcohol content : 15
Amanoto's light nigori junmai ginjo.
I got too drunk at a kaku-uchi and bought it on the spur of the moment.
I didn't drink it at the kaku-uchi. It was the first time I opened the bottle.
Yes, it has a freshly-squeezed feel. It has acidity, but is sweet overall.
It kills in a blink of an eye.
Rice: Hoshiakari
Rice polishing ratio : 50
Alcohol content : 14.7
Sake Degree : -3.1
Acidity : 1.7
Sake from Iki Island, Nagasaki.
Banana? Fruity and easy to drink.
Rice used: 80% Gin-no-sato (from Iki), 20% Yamadanishiki
Polishing ratio: Kake rice 65%, Koji rice 50%.
Alcohol content: 14%.
The label has a playful feel to it, Abe Kang. A good sign. It's double-filmed, and when you peel off the chicken label, there's an owl.
Yeah, that's it.
But something good.
Mellow flavor and mild ginjo aroma.
Serve with soaked Sadohara eggplant.
Rice used: Miyagi rice
Rice polishing ratio: 55
Sake degree: -2
Acidity: 1.5
Amino acidity: 1.1
Alcohol content: 15
It is unfiltered raw sake, but surprisingly refreshing. Nagareki Ganki, easy to drink.
Rice: 100% Yamadanishiki
Rice polishing ratio 60
Alcohol content 17%.
We visited Kitaoka Honten, a sake brewery in Yoshino, Nara Prefecture, and were treated to a Daiginjo bottled this month that was obtained by a staff member here and a regular customer.
Mellow and slightly sweet, it was different from the Yatagarasu we had had in the past, and had a very special feel!
With mori no lebasashi (mushrooms)
Yamada-Nishiki 10 0 % used
Polishing ratio 50%.
Alcohol content: 17