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Kumamoto sake with a robust flavor to go with the horse sashimi. It is refreshing but also tasty. The alcohol content is 15% and the rice polishing ratio is 65%.
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This is now the world of sparkling wine. Alcohol content 13%, rice polishing ratio undisclosed. A naturally farmed sake. Light, airy, and gorgeous. I drank it before the food was served.
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A gift from a native of Gunma. You can taste the robust flavor of the rice and the acidity. Serve with salted salmon. Polishing ratio 70%, alcohol content 14%. It is still hot, so I drank it chilled, but I think it would be good at room temperature or even heated.
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Sasaki Sake Brewery is the family home of actor Kuranosuke Sasaki. I went to the brewery myself, and this was a summer gift. It has a clean, refreshing taste and a gorgeous aroma. With new salmon roe. Rice polishing ratio 40%, alcohol 16%, sake degree +2.5 (dry).
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This one is also dry and goes wonderfully with seafood. Serve with saury sashimi, grilled white clams with butter, and whelk sashimi. Polishing ratio 70%, alcohol 15%.
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Super dry. It is said to be the northernmost sake brewery in Japan. Serve with sashimi (tuna, sea bream, kampachi, trout, herring, etc.) and raw oysters. Rice polishing ratio 65%, alcohol 17.5 degrees.
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Another round of drinks at Rokugan. This is the well-known Yukino Kayasha. It is an autumn sake, hiyaoroshi. It has a strong flavor. Serve with fried matsutake mushrooms, autumn vegetables, or black beef with tomato miso. Polishing ratio 55%, 16% alcohol by volume.
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A well-known sake at Rokugan. It has a moderate umami, refreshing acidity, and goes well with meals. It goes well with a bowl of steamed figs with sake, grilled bonito, or grilled hamo (pike conger). Polishing ratio 50%, 15% alcohol by volume.
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I went to Sasaki Kuranosuke's family home, Sasaki Shuzo, to write this book. A summer-only product. A refreshing summer sake. With crab miso.
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Shuushuwaku~. Certainly an apple aroma. But it is not a sweet sake. Serve with bowls of kinki (Japanese smelt) and hand-kneaded sushi with loquat trout. Polishing ratio 70%, alcohol content 15%.
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It has a gorgeous aroma and flavor. Serve with sake snacks such as fried shinko, aoyagi nameko, steamed abalone, etc., grilled natural sweetfish from the Miyagawa River in Gifu, and tempura of Edomae kisses and Firenze eggplant. Polishing ratio 55%, alcohol 15%.
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Refreshing and refreshing. Sake and. Polishing ratio 50%, alcohol 15%.
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A robust summer sake with a ginjo aroma and rice flavor. With grilled herring. I drank three cups of this sake when I intended to drink only one. Miyamanishiki 78%, Yamadanishiki 22%, Polishing ratio 50%, Alcohol 16.9
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The second cup of fish money. I'm glad there are five shaku. The first Kagoshima sake. It is dry with acidity and umami. With Yanaka ginger tempura. Polishing ratio 50%, alcohol content 15%.
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Sudden thunderstorm hit and we had a drink in the rain. Refreshingly dry. Polishing ratio: 50% Koji rice, 55% Kakemai rice, 15% alcohol. With sashimi for one person.
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The third cup of the winner. The aroma of muscat is very strong. We enjoy it slowly with various foods such as amaebi (sweet shrimp), sakura-masu trout, and seared nodoguro (a type of tuna). Polishing ratio 55%, alcohol 16%.
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The second cup for the winner. I wonder if it reads "hiyashi-sake." Kutouryuu with ice. It has a rice polishing ratio of 65% and an alcohol content of 18 degrees! It stings, but it's dangerous. Oysters, squid, and ara (white meat).
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At the "winner" at the Toranomon Yokocho pop-up. Sourness and a hint of sweetness. With snacks. The crabmeat, which also contains hairy crab innards, is mixed with chicken eggs and served with a thick red bean paste, which is the best. Polishing ratio 50%, alcohol 15%.
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Sendai "Izakaya Chocho" 4th drink. A brewery in Namie-cho, Fukushima Prefecture. It was moved to Yamagata Prefecture, but they reopened it in Namie. I want to support them. It is one of the "Fish Sake Mariage" series (there are 8 kinds!). It is a soft and full-bodied sake, one of the eight in the series. Polishing ratio 65% (shingin), alcohol 15%. Deep fried dongoroi sardines with shichimi mayo. Finish with freshly cooked silver rice and sujiko.
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Sendai "Izakaya Chocho" 3rd drink. I've had this one before. A summer sake with a mild ginjo aroma and refreshing acidity. Polishing ratio 55%, alcohol 15%. We had it with fresh ginger satsuma-age and raw turnip with mentaiko mayo dip.
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