Actually, it was my first time to drink at Toyo Bijin-san. I had some prior input that she was a 14th generation disciple of Toyo Bijin, so I wondered if she was like that or not. What was it like? I had it while imagining what it would be like.
It is sweet and fruity. It was exactly what I imagined a modern sake would be like. Delicious!
The Graduates are said to have a lemon-like sourness, and I found it to be so. The lingering bitterness is also lemon-like. I think it is similar to Oumine in image.
The moderate acidity is followed by a refreshing sensation. The freshness is not as pronounced as it should be, but it is a refreshing feeling different from that of summer sake. I like it. It is an unlikely feeling, which is nice.
According to the label on the back of the bottle, it has a "slight umami" flavor, but I personally felt a rich umami derived from rice (perhaps because the bottle had been open for a day). The sharpness is as you say. The word that came to mind was "authentic". It's good as a food wine, or a sipping wine on a long autumn night. Oh, it's wonderful.
I've had a cold for the past few days due to the change of season, but I'm a little better now, so I'll have a gulp.
This time, it's a hiyaoroshi from Yokoyama (maybe for the first time?). I wonder if this sweetness is only possible with hiyaoroshi. I wondered if this delicious sweetness was only possible with hiyaoroshi, and thought that the lingering, moderate ginjo aroma that lingers in the aftertaste is autumn.
If you catch a cold, you will not be able to drink, so please take good care of yourselves.
It is a test brew, and it seems that white malted rice was used to produce a sour taste.
It is true that it has a sourness that is not usually found in Niigata and Fukushima sake. But I don't feel any discomfort.
I may request this for next year's summer sake. I think it will be a good balance of Garakudai's Niigata and modernity. I'm looking forward to it.
This is Kame no Kai, the winner of this year's summer sake category in my opinion.
It has a different flavor from Semi Shigure, which is all about the suppa, or rather, I thought it was all about the umami (flavor). I thought it was a bit different from Semi Shigure, which is all-out on the flavor side (although, like Semi Shigure, it is delicately balanced). It's a balance breaker, but it's balanced, which is a contradiction.
I don't drink much heated sake, but I thought it would be good lukewarm as well. (It's about to explode with umami...).
Is this... a summer sake? My first impression is that it has a freshness. The slightly bitter aftertaste after the sapphire ama is also good. I like it.
I found a bottle of Murayu, which I knew was hard to find, at a certain sacred place and bought it. It is a sweet sake, more like a classic. I guess Murayuke is the isolated sweet brand in Niigata, the kingdom of "light and dry" sake.
I bought it at a sacred place in Tokyo. After opening the bottle, the cork was empty in the refrigerator the next day (because it is a fizzy festival). I drank it the next day, thinking that it must have deteriorated... but it was totally delicious, not a hint of deterioration (although the fizziness was slightly reduced). I was drinking Shinsei 🐦🔥 at the same time, and I thought that it was even better than the other one in terms of umami. Please try it if you can.
You all know Shinmasa's kijoshu, Yonotori 🐦🔥. It was made in 2023, and the rice was not so good this year (according to the label on the back), but it is totally delicious, or rather, it is marvelously delicious regardless of that (emphasis added). I appreciated the sake brewery's efforts. I am grateful for this encounter.
It was the first time for me to drink summer sake Nabeshima, but it was also the first time for me to drink hiyaoroshi.
It was a bit sharp right after opening the bottle, but it became mellower and mellower on the second and third days. If you want to feel the passage of time in the long autumn nights, this is a must-try.
I was in Niigata last week and bought this at Niigata station.
It's super sizzling and sweet. I drank it in a hurry, feeling like an adult carbonated beverage. It doesn't have the good old Niigata sake's light and dry taste at all, but I thought it was nice to have such a sharp taste.
The word "full" is the perfect word for it, isn't it, Collage? The moment you put it in your mouth, it spreads out in a flash (not in a fluffy way). I thought it would be better to cool it down a little bit than to cool it down to the perfect temperature.
I thought I was buying hiyaoroshi, but when I took a sip, I thought, "No, this is summer sake, right?" But when I looked it up, I found out that it seems to be a freshly pressed sake. But when I looked it up, I found out that it was a freshly squeezed, freshly minted sake.
So it is not surprising that it has the taste of Omine's summer sake, with a little bit of acidity and a lot of umami. It has a feeling of being only available at this time of the year.
I didn't know this at the time of purchase, but it is a limited edition sake available only once a year (no wonder it's so good). It is the kind of sake that soaks through easily... or that the body accepts without a millimeter of discomfort.