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Found at the supermarket 👀 Edamame season is here again this year 🫛. There are many varieties in Niigata, but it starts with this very early Yahiko-Musume and lasts until about October 👉. Yahikomusume is shipped with branches, roots and leaves. Probably only Yahikomusume has this shape ✨. It makes me so happy when I see them in the stores 😆. To match is Tamagawa Sake Brewery @ Echino Snow Brewery in Uonuma City, which brews Tama flavor: ❄️ A crisp Niigata junmai ginjo with a mature taste. Slightly sweet and low in alcohol. It has an acidity and a light, dusty taste 😌.
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まつちよ
Good evening, Jurian! I see they are already selling edamame! As expected of the producing area, they are early 🫛. I used to grow edamame in my vegetable garden once upon a time, and freshly picked edamame tastes the best 😋.
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Good morning, Matsuchiyo 😊. In Niigata, it starts this time of year after GW. It doesn't have a strong flavor like tea beans for example, but it tastes fresh and young 🫛.
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Jurian, good evening 🌇. Yahiko musume seems to be early👍 I used to think that the edamame season lasted until August, but a few years ago I had the chance to taste the most flavorful ones in September, and once again I was reminded of the depth of Niigata edamame.
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Hiraccio, good evening 🌙 For me, seeing Yahiko musume with branches is a seasonal tradition 🫛. It's a bit expensive and not often sold in Ojiya 😅.
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Shinshu Kirei美山錦 純米大吟醸39純米大吟醸
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I finally got it, silver tortoise 🐢🥈. I invited a senior who has been helping me to bring it into the store because I was so happy to do so... She said it's not a joke, but it's beautiful.... I think the good points of Miyamanishiki are fully brought out 🤔. The elegant sweetness flows smoothly and beautifully from the apple and grape-like fruitiness: 〰︎ Clearly a taste of the higher end ✨✨ Our seniors were very pleased😊.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Good evening, Jurian 😃. It's nice that you can finally get your hands on a silver turtle ‼️ and taste it with your seniors who have been so kind to you 🤗and the top tastes😍I hope you'll be pleased 😊.
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Good evening, Jay & Nobby 🌙. I introduced you to Koei Chrysanthemum before and you liked it 😌. This time Kamerei was the first time for them, they only knew the name 😊. It's a pleasure to share the excitement of a good sake ✨.
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Hijiri特別純米生酒
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I'm going to try to match the motsukko from Nagai Shokudo that I bought the other day in Gunma with the Sei🍶 from the same Shibukawa City. But the Sei Sake Brewery is located in the former Kitatachibana Village. It is quite far away... This is a special junmai made with wakamizu. Wakamizu is familiar to me from my beloved Gunma Izumi 🌾. Slightly effervescent, fresh✨. It has fruitiness like grapes and apples, with a handsome sweet and sour taste that makes you swoon. A little herbal, grassy nuance too 🌿. Nice and sharp, with a touch of astringency at the end 😋. At first I was not sure about this 😣..., But it went surprisingly well with this stew 👍 By the way, when I passed by Nagai Shokudo on Saturday, there was a line of about 50 people or more... The diner is closed on Sundays, and the take-out counter is open only during the day (vending machines are available at night). Even so, the parking lot was full and there was a line for take-out... No, it's very popular 😵...
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Nagai Shokudo, as expected, is very popular👍. I think that Akagisan or Gunma Izumi would probably be better suited to the stewed beef, but I am glad to hear that this special junmai was surprisingly suited to the dish.
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Good evening, Mr. Hiraccio 🌙 It's been a while since I've been to Saint, and I chose it because of the Shibukawa connection. As you pointed out, it has a modern structure, which surprised me a bit, but it was not a bad match 😊.
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Junmai Namaizu using Yume no Kaori (aroma of dream). Air leaked out when opening the bottle, but no fizziness when included. It is fresh and has a strong impact of umami and sweetness, but it has a gentle drinking experience due to the low alcohol content. ☺️ Still, you can feel the alcohol in the second half of the bottle...I thought it was an interesting balance... As the temperature rose, nutty aroma and pear-like fruitiness came out. It has a variety of hard and soft expressions ✨
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Kikusuiふなぐち菊水一番しぼり大吟醸原酒生酒
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I was really curious about this limited edition Daiginjo✨. I say limited... but they sell quite a few 😅. The aroma of the regular can is not as sweet and mild as the regular can, and has a nice, clean aroma. Fresh and peachy on the palate. Fruitiness 🍑. Then a firm rice flavor (weaker than the normal can), followed by a sharp, mild astringent finish 😌. I think the regular can is for BBQ and the green can is for beach baked fish, but this one is.... I think it's more versatile, and I think it's for seafood, including sashimi 🐟. I want to stock up an icebox full of it and go out to various places 🚃. It's a great time of year to do so 😊. I would be happy if I could open more and more there - a bit of a luxury ✨.
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Good morning. What's up? Jurian was wondering about this too? "The smell of a normal can of mellow ...... is a nice aroma." No, that's exactly what I was thinking. But it's surprisingly inexpensive in terms of Yongbottle. I've got a cooler box full of them! It looks good!
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Good evening, Mr. Sakeran. It looks casual at first glance but when poured into a glass it has an advanced taste ✨It comes in handy 👍 I've been stocking up on them since I haven't seen them around lately 😅.
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Sogenしぼりたて生原酒原酒生酒
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The aroma of sweet, mild koji malt rises to the surface. When you drink it, it has a melon-like fruitiness 🍈 and the thick umami of the rice comes through with a bang. The sweetness is firm, but crisp and clear. It is like pure ripe rice juice. I don't think there is such a thing as fully ripe rice, but that is my impression. It seems to be a four-stage brewing process, so I guess that's the effect 🤔. 19°❕. But I don't think it's that much degrees and it's refined ✨. I felt like a slightly milder version of Shiboritate by Shiborizuru, but the impression is very different 😋.
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Jurian, good evening 🌆. I have had this before and I have a strong memory of it, with quite a booming rich mellow impact. It is different from Shiboritate of Shiborizuru, but it comes to mind, doesn't it?
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Hi Hi Hiraccio, ☀️ I think you are right about the richness of the sake. I found its thickness to be unparalleled, but it was an interesting sake without much heaviness 👍.
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Kintsuru本醸造生貯蔵酒
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The two types of casks are single-batch casks and casks made from fresh casks. I'm somewhat inclined to go for the nama-zakari because I have the impression that most of the major companies have nama-zakari ❔. Am I the only one who would like to compare the same specs of sake once 🤔... So, this is a rarely seen Kanetsuru fresh-preserved ✨. Fresh but also calm. Enough rice flavor and pear-like fruitiness 🍐. It's 16% but light and you can feel the alcohol at the end 🙂. First fresh stored sake I've had in a while, pretty good👍.
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Thanks for your time 👋. Indeed ...... if it's raw storage and raw stuffing, why do I reach for the latter 🤔?
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Good evening, Mr. Sakeran 🌙 I think it's because I've always been more familiar with fresh storage and see it more often... I don't think I see many major fresh packings 🤔.
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Tabika神の穂特別純米生酒無濾過
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My favorite Tamitsu✨ Probably my first experience with a sake using Kami no Ho: 🙇‍♂️ Banana-like fruitiness and some ester notes. Fresh, smooth and tasty, with a good amount of sweetness, and it finishes nicely: 〰︎ I think it is a typical Tokujun 👍. It's a very nice and refreshing wine. I don't think it has the presence to overwhelm others, but it is very friendly and easy to drink. A casual happiness in everyday life: ☺️
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I've never had much luck with Kuheiji... This is my first time drinking at home. It is also the first time for me to drink nigorigo. Reserved for a guide from the online store. I was somewhat curious 😉. The thing that impressed me the most was the throat action. Or rather, its behavior in the oral cavity before that. I guess that's why people say it's like wine 😋. It's also on the level of Premier or something 🍷. Fresh, very light gassy, lactic acid and melon-like fruit. A bit greeful. Grain-like in the second half? Flavors like potato shochu...? I was curious because it's very refined😅.
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Chojazakariネイビー長さん純米大吟醸原酒生酒
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A liquor I found at a liquor store in the city that focuses on western liquors, which I don't see much else. I've seen Mr. Black's chief somewhere else... 👀. Next to it is a sweet 🍶 in a Choujamori boar cup found at a popular pastry store in the city. It is a fresh chocolate made with N-888 Premium in collaboration with Niigata Meikozo 🍫. It is fresh and has flavors like green apple and lychee? The fresh, green apple and lychee-like flavors and refreshing sake quality are common to all Chojamori. It is also very drinkable and has a sharp taste, followed by an assertive bitterness and astringency. The impression is that it is truly a Niigata sake with the characteristics of Koshitanrei well expressed. It is definitely delicious. As for sweets, I'm not really good at sweets by nature... but this chocolate is smooth and elegant with a hint of sake ✨. N-888 Premium is also made with Koshitanrei, so it's the same as sake 😅
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Jurian, good evening😊. I see you have navy: ❗️ I drank Dry and Delicious the other day. The Choujamori boar cup, for a moment I thought it was my home 😅I had a sense of déjà vu.
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Good evening, Mr. Hiraccio 🌙 I'm not sure how the Chosan series is positioned, but there are a lot of different ones ❕. The store owner said that the navy~ is only available in the store and in the Ponchukan 😮.
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Kintsuru風和 活性にごり酒純米にごり酒
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I found a rare beer. I first quenched my thirst there and then had a related alcoholic beverage 😋. tOKi brewery is a craft brewery on Sado Island, and this KINTSURU BLONDE was brewed jointly with Kato Sake Brewery, which also brews Kintsuru on Sado Island. It seems that freshly steamed Gohyakumangoku from Kato Sake Brewery was brought to the brewery for use 🚚. I've been drinking a lot of IPAs and other stimulating beers lately, so it's been a while since I've had a round beer😌. It is fresh with citrus flavors, but still a refreshing beer made with rice. It was a beer that felt Japanese: 🇯🇵 The sake is an activated nigori sake from the Kaze-Yawaraka brand. I believe the rice used is Gohyakumangoku, so it may be the same rice as the beer✨. It doesn't blow but the fizz is strong (there is an air hole in the stopper) 🫧. But it's been a long time since brewed, so maybe it was more rambunctious 💥. The flavor is fresh and gradually spreads to the palate~! I found both wines to be of understated quality😊.
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There are 16 sake breweries in Nagaoka, but this is the first time I have had a chance to face it properly at home. This is the first time I have faced it properly at home. 🙇‍♂️ Honjozo with 60% polished rice✨ A clear, crisp sake with a robust rice flavor 🌾. It gives the impression of a classic Niigata honjozo, but here in Chuetsu, it was a little sweeter, more like a sake from the Joetsu area 😋. A lingering aftertaste. It is versatile and seems to go down smoothly (the drinkability is really noteworthy ❕). Nothing outstanding, but when I drink this kind of sake, I feel the underlying strength of Niigata 💪.
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伝衛門GOZ純米生酒にごり酒
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Oh no... I should have let it sit for a day - I was caught off guard😱. Spouting -> automatic stirring🫧. The guy at the store said it wouldn't fizz much 😩. GOZ nigori version 🤍, which is a Hasegawa store exclusive. It's a pretty dark nigori. Fresh & fruity, with some greenish nuances. After green apple, lime and lactic sweetness, what passes through the nose is a mint flavor ☘️ Fine effervescence spreads in the oral cavity, and after some time, a strong astringent taste 😌. It is not very flashy and gives the impression of a Niigata sake 🌾. I didn't find it to have a strong character, but I would like to try others 😊. Will it be the Echigo's Rising Star? ⁉️
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I think Taiyozakari's Shikumo was a brand limited to special dealers in the prefecture. I like the concept of "fresh rotation" ✨and "local production for local consumption". I thought it was a rival to the freshly squeezed Shiboritate from Murakami, but my impression was very different 🤔. It has a cream soda-like top, fresh, melon, a little estery. The astringent and pungent taste in the latter half of the bottle is very strong, but it is also 15%, so it doesn't hit you as hard as the Shimebari Tsuru. It has a strong alcoholic taste and is very strong, so it is not as easy to drink.... It's like an everyday Niigata sake ❕. It went perfectly with the flounder👍 (Served at ✖️😅)
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Isojimanしぼりたて吟醸原酒生酒
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This is probably the first time I've ever had freshly squeezed raw ginjo sake! The nose is subtle, with a sweet aroma of rice and a little herbal 🌿. Fresh, apple-like fruitiness, a little bit of cemedine 🍏. It has a long, astringent, spicy aftertaste with a long finish. I guess my memory of it as a clean and clear ginjo was wrong... It's more like a massive chugin, which is a precursor to the special honjozo we had last year ✨. And as is often the case with Isoboast... The flavor doesn't settle down right after opening the bottle, and it doesn't really show its true potential until about the 3rd day ❔.
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Chitosetsuru冬ひぐま純米吟醸生酒にごり酒
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First visit to this precious ramen restaurant where you can enjoy drinks and various dishes at night 🚶. The owner seems to be a Japanese chef who has been operating a kappo restaurant nearby for a long time ✨. This was my first drink after quenching my thirst with a glass of beer! The last time I had Chitose Tsuru was when I couldn't imagine such a modern label 🤔. The nigori is not so thick, but it is a bit rough and I could feel the lees! But it is not heavy, light, fresh, fruity, and goes down easy 😋. I felt it was one of the best muddy wines I've had this season 🏆. I had a hard time deciding which snacks to order, but I was happy to have a strategy meeting with one of them 😆. Everything we had was delicious 😋. You can choose the amount of alcohol you want to drink, and it's a great place to capture the hearts of sake drinkers👍. Of course, the ramen noodles to finish off the meal were also excellent 👍
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Good evening, Jurian 😄. If it weren't for the kitchen's hot water colander and the picture of the last ramen, you wouldn't think it was a ramen shop, it's a stylish sake snack 😳 Winter hikuma is good too 🤤I could drink about 3 more cups with the broth from the last ramen 😁🍶.
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Thank you, Aladdin 😊. It's ramen with shamo broth and they use three kinds of shamo... It was also a good accompaniment to heated sake 🍶.
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I've been wanting to try this drink for a while ✨. Here, Nagano sake is rarely seen in liquor stores or supermarkets, but I found this at a nearby supermarket 👀 some kind of fair ❔. I love these classic and classy labels ♡. The taste is just like a classic sake 🍶. I didn't really feel the Nagano character, but it's an all-rounder that accepts a variety of snacks👍.
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New brewery re-launched last year✨ I think this is probably my first experience with both the rice used "Celebration" and the yeast used "Kyo no Koto". Sweet aroma with a sense of freshness. Not too fruity, classic sake aroma 🍶. It goes through smoothly without corners like water 🍶. Light green apple and muscat-like fruit, acidic and lemon-like. It has a refined sweetness. Overall, it is round, gentle, and nicely integrated. The acidity is impressive🍋. Somehow a strange sensation that I haven't experienced very often... The acidity makes it feel like a modern sake for a moment, but it seems like it's basically a classic sake 🤔.
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Koeigiku美雲原酒生酒無濾過
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A new line, the first Miyamanishiki🌾 in the brewery. I'm curious to see how it will look like. How about Koei Kiku meets Miyamanishiki 😆. When I opened the bottle, I took a sniff of the top...totally different. Like pineapple 🍍. When you drink it, you can taste apple, pineapple, pear, peach? The sweetness is light, and the acidity is long. The sweetness is light and clear with a stretchy acidity 🍃. It is extremely light (like a cloud ❔), which is probably due to the low alcohol content. When the temperature rises, I felt a little bit of fragrance. The thing I found most unusual was the almost complete absence of citrus flavors that were generally common... 😮. On the second day, I did notice a glimmer of orange-like flavor in the back... I've always felt that Koei Chrysanthemum has a nostalgic cute sweet and sour taste with a modern flavor, but this time I hardly felt it ♡... Very drinkable though ✨
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Obasute純米辛口純米
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No cloying taste, clear, with a strong sense of rice flavor 🌾. I don't feel much fruitiness, and the acidity is rather effective. Somewhat woody nuances... I think Nagano's sake is different from Niigata's in this kind of everyday sake. It is cool and refreshing, reminds me of a meadow 🤔.
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