I'm not a big fan of fatty Chouchin, but I can drink this one!
As soon as you drink it, you will feel a tingling sensation on the tip of your tongue, so it is thick on your tongue, but it doesn't become too heavy.
When you finish it, you can feel the alcohol (it's Junmai) and it's easy to drink.
It has a solid taste of rice and is easy to drink. It's not light, but it's not too thick, and the aftertaste comes through nicely, so it's a good match with food.
It's not just light, it's easy to drink with a little sourness to enjoy the taste of sake. It goes well with food (yakitori in this case).
I heard it's served at night, but I've never had the daytime version, so I can't say how it compares.
It's been a while since I've had a drink outside. It was a mouth opener!
It is clean, but there is a sense of alcohol, and the impression is that of an astringent strain (but it is not astringent, but a strain).
Easy to drink.
It's beautiful, with a bit of earthiness for a Saku flower, combined with a good sense of astringency and an acidity that makes the tongue just a bit tangy.
It has a delicious taste with the taste of sake without excess or deficiency. It is easy to drink, but the line is not thin. It really has no peculiarities in a sense.
First, I felt the sourness, and then the astringency, but it was a delicious sake that I could drink easily. Chouchin is not my favorite type of sake because of its thickness, but the owner of the sake shop I've been working with recently recommended that this was a beautiful sake to drink, and he was right.
If the previous one, Asahi Koh, had a calculated balance, this one is thick and delicate.
This is delicious. I felt it was a step above the rest. It's like Ishidaya has been given a sake character.
It's fruity and doesn't linger on the tongue, yet it's firm and round!
It is a standard (I think because it is not a ginjo type) sake that is very unctuous and does not give the impression of being fruity or thick. It is easy to drink.
Of course, I have a preconceived notion, but I can really smell the apples. Not only in the taste but also before drinking. It's good enough to be a sake, but a little sweet for normal drinking (it's a matter of taste).
It's firm but not too thick, and the aftertaste is clean and delicious with a nice lingering aftertaste. It gets one star especially when it's in the middle of a meal.
It's a bit astringent when it's first opened (relatively speaking, since I probably prefer sour flavors), but it has a pearly softness that I like after a few days. The aftertaste is also clean and well balanced.
You can feel the mellow acidity very much. After the sourness comes the sweetness, which is refined by the ginjo aroma, but it is a full-bodied sake that cannot be categorized as a neat sake because of the origarari.