Next up is a great sake from Shiga: ✋🏻 This sake has a good reputation, but in my opinion it's not a winner 😑 This one also has some kind of a tangy taste 🌀.
I remember when I drank one at a restaurant in Atami and it was also a miss 😆.
This is a drink at a Japanese restaurant near my house: ✋🏻 It's refreshing and I like it: ❤️ You can't go wrong with this brewery: ⤴️
But the breweries in Nara are doing well, I don't think they used to be so bad 🤔 In case you're wondering, Mie too: ✌🏻
This bottle was also served for a banquet at our house: ✋🏻 It had an ostentatious label with a nosho on it, so I had high expectations, but I guess I was not surprised 😑 Still, it's rude to compare it to regular sake 😅.
This is a bottle of sake served at a certain obanzai restaurant: ☝️ It's from the Kuranosuke's family: ✋🏻 I know 😅
I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad 🤔.
I drank it when I was young and thought what the heck 😑 This time I had no choice but to try it because it was the store's recommendation and it was OK. 🙆♂️ I think to myself, I'm not too picky 😆.
It was a gift for a banquet at my home with friends. ✋🏻 I had high expectations from the sake and the degree of rice polishing, but it was a disappointing bottle. ⤵️ I wonder where the Junmai Daigin feature is 🌀
The brewery is located in Kameoka, but they have a store near my house. ✋🏻 I bought this bottle as a social event, and I thought it would be a good drinking experience in the ginjo class 🤨 It exceeded my expectations. ⤴️
The same brand name continues: ✋🏻 I found it in the supermarket, but I've never heard of "top quality sake" 👂.
I guess that means it's neither good nor bad, but it's worth the price 🫡.
On my way back from a work trip to Kyobashi, a drinking paradise, I hit up a bar that was open before noon: ✋🏻 I had one choice of cold sake, but it was a brand I'd never heard of 😳.
But it was surprisingly refreshing and slides down your throat nicely ⤴️ I'll be in Kyobashi again later this week, so I'm sure I'll be back 😅
I procured it during a petit trip to Awaji at the end of the year. ✋🏻 It is lightly cloudy and very sweet, so again, it didn't suit me, so my wife took care of it 😫.
I stocked up at a roadside station when I went to Miyama at the end of the year for a fried chicken lunchbox: ✋🏻 Yikes, this sake was a failure not worthy of evaluation: ⤵️ I won't comment in detail 🌀
A souvenir from Oita for New Year's Day: ⤴️
I've had a few different brands of this one, and I've never had a good impression of it ⤵️ but this was indeed a beautiful and tasty bottle ✨.
My wife went out of her way to stock up at a select supermarket early after we made the U-turn 🌀 I told her I was sorry but I had no emotional attachment to it 😱 but it's true, isn't it 😑.