It has a strong rice flavor and sweetness on the palate, but it is not dull and has a nice sharpness to it, making it easy to drink. (Forgot the photo: ......
Pleasant sweetness from the aroma. From the first sip, a sweetness that combines the gentleness and core strength typical of Jyushiyo runs through the mouth at once. Yet, it is easy to drink because there is no aftertaste. The first Jyushidai of the year is also the best.
I found it at Hasegawa Tokyo Station store and couldn't resist buying it. I didn't drink it last year, so this is my first snowball in two years.
I started with the supernatant. The aroma is faintly sweet with a pleasant degree of sweetness. The taste is fluffy like tofu or albacore, and the sweetness is a bit like that of a traditional sake, with a slight carbonation following afterwards. The sake has a nice sharpness, so it is not difficult to drink, and in a sense, it is a dangerous sake that is easy to drink.
Next, the nigori is mixed with the sake. When nigori is mixed in, the carbonation becomes stronger and the body becomes middle. This one has a heavier body and is strong enough to stand up to strong flavored food.
Limited edition 2023BY Sharaku bought at Hasegawa. A gorgeous flavor typical of Sharaku runs through the mouth at once from the first sip, a medium to almost full-bodied sake.
Tonight, I drank a junmai sake from Naraman for dinner. It has a slight alcohol edge on the palate, but it is not an unpleasant edge, and the crisp rice sweetness typical of junmai sake makes it easy to drink with a dry, so-called "dry" taste.
Ona's special junmai hiyaoroshi. Since it was Sake Day, I bought it even though I wasn't planning to drink it. As is typical of hiyaoroshi sake, it has a slightly thickened, robust rice flavor on the palate, followed by a slightly bitter taste on the finish. It is a sake that seems to go well with strong flavored food, but when I paired it with today's dinner of spicy mapo tofu, it went very well with it.
PS: As I drank it, the flavor of chocolate banana came out in the taste. It is an interesting sake including this point.
Good morning, Kasshi 😃.
Kochira Ona-san! It's so good 🤗
It's interesting that you put it with the bean curd 😙and that the flavor changes as you drink it 😚.
This time it is a dry junmai autumn sake from Tedorigawa. On the palate, there is a slight gasiness and a gorgeous sweetness that is typical of modern sake. Next, a slight bitterness and just the right amount of sticky rice flavor hit the palate. A perfect sake for long autumn nights.
The name of this sake is "Umifudo (Seafood)". It is a sake created by Tomikyucho to go well with seafood dishes.
It tastes like white wine with a citrus-like acidity, yet it also has the sweetness of rice that is characteristic of sake. It is the perfect sake for seafood dishes.
Yoshinogawa Long Aged Koshu (Old Sake) Yuukyu-no-tori 2008 received as a birthday present.
I was looking forward to this day as it was my first time to drink old sake of this level.
It looked like whiskey, so I thought the aroma would be whiskey as well, but it was more like vinegar with a strong sourness, followed by the smell of matured alcohol.
When I actually drank it, the sourness was not as strong as the aroma, but rather an aged, gentle sweetness like that of whiskey spread in my mouth, with a moderate sourness coming from it. It is not as strong as whiskey, so it is easy to drink.
The mild, pleasantly refreshing sweetness runs through the mouth from the first sip, and the lingering aftertaste is moderate and comfortable to drink, remaining in a not-too-dark way.