A gentle Junmai sake that complements food, combining the soft, fine flavor of Shimane Prefecture's Yamada-Nishiki with the purity of a mythological clear stream. It is a gentle Junmai sake that complements food. It has a refreshingly gentle, yet slightly dry finish. The toji himself brewed this sake with local Yamada-Nishiki, water, and unrefined sake, in an effort to create a junmai sake that he would truly like to drink.
This was a quote from the website.
We had it at an udon restaurant in Hotarugaike.
Too bad I couldn't take a picture of the bottle.
The flavor is smooth and the range of change from the first sip to the aftertaste is narrow and stable.
I got the impression that the appearance and the horse mackerels were similar.
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After being pressed and bottled in 2014, it is matured in the cold storage at the brewery to give it a mellow taste.
Rich, mellow, and full of umami
We were lured by the supermarket pop-up of this very rare matured raw sake!
I tasted it with sashimi grated on a willow leaf sharpened by a local sawyer!
The taste is clean and light, but the full flavor of the rice comes through later.
I enjoyed the long aftertaste.
I enjoyed it while thinking about the story of the recovery from the earthquake.
The following is a quote
In November 2011, eight months after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tae Kikuchi, a resident of Ando, Otsuchi Town, Iwate Prefecture, found three ears of rice growing on the site of his house that had been washed away by the tsunami. The town of Ado faces the sea, and there are no rice fields around. The rice had been washed ashore from somewhere by the tsunami, sprouted naturally in the rubble, and formed ears after surviving the disaster. Tae named this rice "Otsuchi Fukko Mai" (Otsuchi Recovery Rice). Just three ears of rice can now be produced to create a beautiful rice field landscape.
Sweet!
That was my first impression.
The next day, I felt a little sourness and it was getting closer to my taste!
Looking at the label, I see that it is carbonated, so I guess it is not a draft sake.
The alcohol content is low at 12%.
This is the kind of sake that can narrow down the target of your preference.