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I suddenly remembered drinking it in the past and looked for it in hopes of a reunion... I had no idea it was so hard to find 💧. It seems to be carefully crafted on a small scale: 🙇‍♂️ It doesn't say so on the label, but it is shipped fully aged and the taste clearly shows it 😌. It has a complex nose of brown sugar, cream, etc., like an old wine. The mouthfeel is smooth, but it finishes with impact. ⚡️ It does not have a strong sense of maturity, but rather a fresh impression, and as soon as you think it is unexpectedly light ❔, the umami slowly rushes in, and the bitterness is not so strong, but it is still very strong in the lower esophagus... 😯. After that, the bitterness lingers in the oral cavity: 〰︎ It goes really well with chicken liver 👍 It was easy to expect it to warm up, but the higher the temperature, the easier it becomes to drink ❕. And the more you raise the temperature, the easier it gets to drink ❕ and the more it consistently radiates character without losing its backbone... it's a strong sake ✨. I was actually able to get a bottle of the raw sake as well. Very much looking forward to it😊.
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I like to drink sake that is usually consumed in unfamiliar places. I bought this sake when I was in Toyama. I was also struck by the visual 💕. Namekawa is just passing by 🚙🙇‍♂️ Thinking of the city near the sea 😌. Even the honjozo is luxurious with 60% polished rice✨ It's soft on the palate and goes well with all kinds of snacks 😊. And quite dry ⚡️ I thought it tasted similar to Niigata sake, but it's interesting that it's clearly different from the one from the neighboring Joetsu region 🤔.
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まるわ
Good evening, Jurian. I like your local sake, honjozo. I envy you the luxury of making sake with 60% polished rice. The taste of sake is different even in neighboring prefectures such as Niigata and Toyama. It is interesting.
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Thank you very much, Maruwa-san. I felt that Namekawa is closer to Niigata in Toyama Prefecture and this sake was a good approximation, but the Joetsu region adjacent to Toyama Prefecture has many sweet sake even within Niigata, which led me to the above impression 😊.
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Tabika新酒 巳純米吟醸
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New R7 sake, once bottled and fired 🔥. We opened it well beyond its age ἥ. The melon top-drop is also implied 🍈. The mouthfeel is soft and flows like water, the bitterness is light but long 😌. Slightly ripe flavor at the edges. Slightly more outgoing than the casual feel I always get from Tamitsu ✨. Can be served as a food wine or on its own for a long time 😆. After a few days, a subtle aroma of maturity tickles the nose. The spiciness increases and a sake-like feeling emerges 🍶. And more... The taste becomes more and more nourishing. The flavor of grains is up 🌾. This is good👍 This is also an impression that has not existed in previous TAMITSU 🤔.
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川鶴Olive純米原酒生酒
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This is the first time I have purchased this alcohol, having often been associated with it through store recommendations, etc.â It has a sweet standing aroma of koji and a milky aroma too 🍼. I don't feel olives, but it's like a fresh breeze of greenish grass ☘️ The mouthfeel is light like water and slightly effervescent 🫧. Fruitiness like grapes, white peaches It's a low-alcohol, light, but not too much ✨. The bitterness is gradually asserted at the end 😌. Kawatsuru, I have a good impression of all their sakes 😊.
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Urazato本生 純米酒純米生酒
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I've finally found you ✨ I'm already dazzling and glowing✨ A mild, sweet, tortoiseshell candy-like standing aroma lightly 🍬. Slightly effervescent on the palate 🫧. There is a grape❔melon❔ like fruitiness, Very round even when well chilled. ⚪️ I just felt it was mellow and fuller than sharp 😊. I got the impression that it's a Junmai sake with a bit of a modern twist, no wonder it's so popular👍
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Good morning, Jurian 😃! Shine ✨Congratulations to Hatsuurari-san ㊗️ 🎉It is helpful to know that Kochira has swung for the modern!
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寿梨庵
Good evening, Jay & Nobby! I got the impression that this was a well-made, orthodox sake with modern nuances. Please give it a try 😊.
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At the Onsen Inn: ♨️ After a night of drinking at dinner, we let sleepiness take over and fell asleep 💤. When you wake up, you are free to take a bath (all private) and drink again in the middle of the night ✨. I think this is the best part of being at a hot spring hotel 😆. Hungry but looking forward to food the next morning 🍚. After quenching my thirst once again 🍺. Drinking the 3 decibels I brought with me 🍺. A white label sake that is thought to have once been a second-class sake, and a sake that was once touted as a phantom sake 🍶. Memories of what used to be like water Now it has a round rice flavor, a sweet taste, and a dry aftertaste. It is rich in flavor, with a mild rice flavor, an astringent taste after the sweetness, and a lingering dry taste 🌾. But it is gentle on the palate and certainly like water. 〰︎ I don't think I've ever felt such sweetness and umami 🤔. I guess the 58% polished rice ❕ specs must be quite different though 😌.
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At a unique inn in Oyu Onsen: ♨️ If you order heated local Midorikawa sake at dinner, you will receive a cold sake bottle and a sake warmer, and you can choose your favorite 🍶. You don't see these single bottles very often... probably a regular sake 🤔. If you're not careful, it's about hot 💦. (And another 💧) Dusty: ☺️ A light, dry sake that goes well with everything served. But somewhat more mellow and full-bodied than others 😋. The dishes here are not high quality ingredients, but rather familiar ingredients and seasonings that you are used to eating, but all of them have a refined taste that is one or two ranks above the rest, and I was very satisfied 😆. By the way, Midorikawa, it seems the ban on online sales has been lifted ✨.
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Shinshu Kirei長野県産美山錦純米吟醸原酒生酒無濾過
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Ripe apple, pineapple-like top 🍎. Slightly effervescent and tingling 🫧. It has a strong ginjo-like character, but the drinking comfort is soft and soothing, and in a good way, it also has a special junmai-like atmosphere 😌. The freshness is still there even though it has been aged for a long time. It has been sitting for a while, but the freshness is still there, but the sharpness is a bit weak. If I had opened it a little earlier, it might have been more spicy 😕 But... it's good enough👍 sigh 🤤.
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SenkinUA. 1st 2025Ver.おりがらみ
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United Arrows designed 2025BY 1st. version ✨. It's an assemblage of Domaine Sakura, and I'm very curious to see how much the 5% turtle tail does ❔, but I can't really tell even after drinking it 😅. It's fire-brewed, but it's fresh and slightly effervescent. But it has a very calm taste. Grape and citrus flavors 🍇. It's like a lactobacillus drink for adults, but I think it goes well with a lot of foods and I think it's excellent as a food wine 🤔. I thought it wouldn't go well with...but it went well with leatherfish liver soy sauce 🤭.
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Akagisan純米吟醸原酒生酒無濾過
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This is my first time to see Akagisan with Shiba Inu label: 🙇‍♂️ Kawaii💕 The aroma is subtle. Slightly effervescent 🫧. It has a strong alcohol and sake taste, but it also has a cool and refreshing taste, just like ramune 🙂. Gentle sweetness and peach fruitiness 🍑❔❔. Unfiltered raw, but flows smoothly and has no curds 〰︎ As the label of the dry honjozo says "man's sake", my image of Akagisan is exactly man's sake💪💪. But I thought this sake was very feminine for an Akagisan 😊.
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Denshu四割五分 百田純米大吟醸
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This is the first time for me to drink sake made with Momota rice, and it is a Junmai Daiginjo made with 45% polished rice, which is familiar with other sake rice ✨It seems to be a limited edition in a can It smells like sweet honey and koji with greenish flavors like grass and trees. ☘️ I guess I didn't feel much of the top shelf because it was chilled so well, but when I sipped it, the fruitiness was just amazing. The luscious aroma of grapes, apples, and pineapple tickles the nose and finishes nicely, leaving a delicious flavor and light bitterness. 〰︎ The sweetness is moderate and refreshing. Fresh but I could also taste a bit of maturity 🤔. I think all Tasake is great, but maybe it's the visual of the cool can with the different flag colors that makes it the most stylish ❔. It's quite expensive (actually a gift 💦), but I'd love to have a whole bunch of it in my stylish fridge 😆.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Hi Jurian 😃 We've never had this one, but it would be great to have it as an accompaniment to a drinking cup 🚃 ‼️ It would be a spectacular sight to open the fridge and see all this stuff lined up 🤩.
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寿梨庵
Hi Jay & Nobby😊. This is pretty good👍 If you could stock it in a cooler box and drink as you wish... that would be awesome ✨.
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AKABUSNOW 2025 EXTRA純米生酒にごり酒
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Chilled thoroughly and opened the bottle. It didn't blow at all...huh? Oh well, there is no warning. Only the supernatant was served... Grapes, grapefruit, orange, apricot... It's refreshing, dry, and a bit lackluster... I mixed it... Slightly effervescent 🫧. Still light, but with more flavor and body. I knew it 👍 Reminds me a bit of Snoqualmie 🤔. I've had Akatake many times before, but this is the first time I've had it up and finally conquered Iwate✨. With so little left, I'm suddenly reminded of the "Saegusa no Kuni-torii Game" 🇯🇵 I felt like I was about to pull a monk 😅
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Hakkaisan雪室貯蔵三年純米大吟醸
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Uonuma no Sato is a theme park-like facility operated by Hakkai Brewery in Nagamori, Minamiuonuma City🌲. It's been a while since I visited and this time I made a reservation to take a tour of the snow cellar: ❄️ The last stop was a tasting included in the tour price at the tasting area 🌲. Junmai Daiginjo, three years in snow storage The basic taste is light and dry, but it has a strong, concentrated core. There is no obvious fruitiness, but a strong umami of rice (clear but mellow), which is the result of the aging process. There is also a characteristic that is hard to describe that I feel is common to other sake stored in the snow 🤔. And what a surprise, we were able to try a paid tasting of the rice whiskey before it went on sale ✨10ml for 500 yen. We were lucky to join the tour 🤗. A side note 🐍. I recommend the soba noodle shop in the facility 😋.
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Looks like a new brewery: 🙇‍♂️ It's called sake, but it seems to be junmai (no mention of rice polishing ratio) 🌾. It rises with herbs, cream, and lychee ❔ pear ❔. The acidity is distinctive ❕, but it's not just light and fresh. But it's not just light, it's a solid, elegant, high quality sake ✨. I felt a very modern essence in a classic 🤔. And with this flavor, it is recommended to be warmed up to lukewarm ❔. I tried it 🍶. Lukewarm changes the atmosphere of the acidity, it's sweet and sour like hot honey lemon 🍋. It's refreshing to begin with, but even more so: ☺️ It's also a great food sake 👍. I recommend drinking it cold to lukewarm, but after trying many different ways, I thought cold or lukewarm would be better 🤗.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Hi Jurian 😃 It's now available here in Tochigi and we had it a while ago 🤗It has a nice refreshing aftertaste 😋we killed it in an instant 😅Next time we'll try it lukewarm 🍶!
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寿梨庵
Good evening, Jay & Nobby 🌙. It was indeed a bit too much to drink cold sake, but I restrained myself 😆. Please try lukewarm next time 🌙.
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Yorokobigaijin山廃赤磐雄町仕込18〜20号純米山廃生酒無濾過
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I was allowed to bring it to a personal farewell party for a senior colleague who has been a great help to me. I took a shot 😅 and said it was "one of my most favorite sakes. I asked for half hot sake at a sushi restaurant I wasn't that familiar with 🙇‍♂️ The other senior member of the group, who was also participating in the event, said he was used to drinking Niigata sake, so this was a sake he had never experienced before. As for the hot sake, they said it was the best heated sake they had ever had... 😉. All of Etsukaijin's sakes are excellent cold, chilled, or hot (personal preference), and they are also great warmed 💕. Among them, this Omachi is easy to drink, and again, it is particularly well-balanced 😊.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Good morning, Jurian 😃! We had Etsukaijin for the first time at our weekend outing 🤗We had it cold and chilled, but I can only imagine how good heated sake 🍶 would be 🤤!
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寿梨庵
Hi Jay & Nobby 😊. We think there is no other sake as complex in flavor as Etsukaijin and can be enjoyed at various temperatures 🤗. Please enjoy it warmed up as well 🤗♨️
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Bentenmusume生酛玉栄 H30BY 20番娘純米生酛
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We were able to get some mackerel ripe sushi from Ota Sake Brewery, so we paired it with our stock of bentenmusume. First, cold... The nose has a standing aroma of brown sugar, rice wine, and tanned leather. On the palate, the acidity is quite strong and intense 😯. However, the mouthfeel is round and the aftertaste is gentle and quite dry. ⚡️ All the daughters are massive, but not that heavyweight 😊. With the recommended hot sake... 🍶. The aroma is like freshly cooked rice 🍚. It's still dry, but the sweetness and umami of the rice has increased and the acidity is still prominent, but more rounded. It's a warm sphere: ⚪️ It's like a flattened sphere becoming a sphere. With ripe vinegar 🐟. Dip it in plenty of rice... the sticky mackerel has a lot of flavor and waits for the sake! There's no reason why it can't go with it 😋.
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Tsuchida168 菩提酛×山廃酛 5年熟成
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For some reason, I got off the Shinkansen at Takasaki and when I got out of the ticket gate, I found a souvenir shop called Iroha and dropped by. 🚶‍➡️ It's a big store with a lot of old and new Jyoshu souvenirs, including products from the Miyashi Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Shop ✨. There is a sake corner at the far end of the shop, and the selection is quite good. And in one corner, there is an automatic tasting machine with two types of Tsuchida that are only available at the store. It seems to be for a limited time only, and the price is 100 yen per glass. It seems to be sold in a different way than usual... The one we chose was an elaborate sake, Bodai-Hashiwado and Yamahai-Hashiwado, aged for 5 years, and quite expensive ✨. This is a pretty good deal 😆. It tastes exactly like Tsuchida, but less peculiar and smoother than the sake I've had so far 〰︎ It has a strong acidity, fruity and sweetness, but the body is rather light and refreshing 😌. Thank you for the drink!
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OosakazukiART DECO 純米吟醸 NOUVEAU純米吟醸
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The naming of this drink is 🫨. The name is ART DECO, but the label has the word NOUVEAU in large letters💧. What, not Art Deco but Art Nouveau❔. I think NOUVEAU probably means new wine, but it's really confusing😅. The label is designed like an art deco sake cup... So where is the art deco expressed in this sake 🤔? Pear, cream-like aroma Fresh, fine effervescence, like a refreshing cream soda 🫧. This is rather NOUVEAU isn't it 😆. The punch of the new wine is understated and easy to drink 🙂 🙂. The finish is clean and cool ❔.
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Okunoto no shiragiku本醸造+本醸造無濾過
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It is a valuable sake. As the label on the back says, the sake that survived the earthquake was unavoidably? As the label on the back says, this sake is made by blending sake that survived the earthquake. That is why it is called Honjozo+. When one thinks of its painful origins, one is reminded of the following... Although it is a honjozo (+ junmai), it has a ginjo-like aroma. It has a gentle sweetness like pineapple, and the mouthfeel is soft and refreshing like water. Yet it is rich in flavor and overflowing with gentle rice flavor. The body is soft and full. I took the liberty of imagining a different sake quality, but it caught me by surprise... It was a charming, lovely, and hopeful sake. ☺️
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Isojimanしぼりたて本醸造生詰酒
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This is the only fresh-pressed version for this time of year✨. By the way, "Shiboritate" is my favorite word related to sake 😆. There was a milky lactic aroma when opened, but it calmed down and became a banana 🌿 with an herbal-like aroma that quickly passed through the nose. More fruity ❔ when fresh packed. But not much difference 🤔. Watery mouthfeel, no unpleasant taste. Mellowness and rice flavor as the temperature rises 🌾. The whole thing flows with a positive atmosphere typical of Shizuoka sake: ☀️ I paired it with red tuna, and it was still perfect👍! I can feel the taste of alcohol, but I can't say whether it is there or not 😤. I left it at the entrance, which is the coldest place this time of year🚪. It's nice to have one open after all! It's always a pleasure to have it there: ☺️
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まるわ
Good evening, Jurian. This sake was very good! I drank it on New Year's Day and finished it right away. I am planning to buy the next (next year's) Shiboritate.
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寿梨庵
Thanks for your comment, Maruwa 😊. Of course the regular Honjozo is good, but the fresh-packaged version, which is only available at this time of year, has a special feel to it - I repeat it quite often👍.
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