Store drinking.
While looking at the menu, I found Tenbi.
This restaurant seems to always bring a small bottle and a card, but they seem to bring an empty bottle for the restaurant's special sake 😄.
The color is clear.
The smell is sweet. It smells like melon🍈.
Taste is light sweet. It has a clean sweetness of green apple and the flavor of rice.
Mouthfeel is slightly carbonated🫧.
It's pretty weak, so maybe it's skipped 🥺.
The mouthfeel is like water 💧, which is common in dry strains.
It seems to be an easy sake to pair with food 🍶.
Store Drinking.
On the way home from a training session, I enter a restaurant I had wanted to visit.
After listening to the explanation of the restaurant, I immediately order 😄.
The color is clear.
Smell is a sour smell 😗.
The sourness stands out, hidden a little sweetness 🧐.
Throat is clean and straight ➡️
Little ginjo aroma.
The aftertaste is slightly bitter and acidic.
The acidity is distinctive 🍶.
Good morning, Hiro-san. I visited Japan Cost Sake Brewery only once, but I remember I was surprised to see many young people there. But still, with this naming in Saitama, I might have mistaken it for Sairai😅.
Hi, I'm studying ☀️
Most of the customers and waitstaff were young 😄.
I made a mistake for a second 🤣.
The character "sai" is very popular, so be careful 😎.
Kangiku Ocean99 Hoshikai Comet 50 Unfiltered Nama-shu Junmai Daiginjo. Kangiku's Ocean series has become a very popular sake. Until a few years ago, it was a sake that was only known to those in the know.
It is sweet and sour, but at the same time it has a nice astringent taste. It has a good balance.
Tengumai Yamahai Junmai-shu Black. We changed the direction at once and had a strong and dark one. However, it is Tengu Mai, and it is chilled well. It goes in much more easily.
Tenmei Sarasara Junmai lovely summer. The label is beautiful with fireworks. The light and smooth taste is followed by the koji flavor. It feels like drinking chilled amazake. It is refreshing.
So, sake! Today we went to the Shinjuku Sohonten branch of the Sake Cost Sake Brewery for the first time in a while.
I was about to look at the menu for my first sake when a familiar staff member came up to me and offered me this. Abe Formal Haut 2023.
It was so sweet and sour and carbonated. It's like drinking juice. It's so fresh.
Kido Junmai. Whenever I find it, I always ask for it. ...... Well, most of the Shinjuku Sohonten stores have Kido, but I just can't resist.
It has a light and refreshing taste, but you can taste the umami and sweetness of the rice deep inside. I like it.
Kangiku Ocean99 Kukai Inflight Junmai Ginjo.
Kangiku Ocean99 is becoming more and more famous, and last year or the year before, it was still a sake that only those in the know knew about.
It has a refreshing taste with a strong sense of minerality. It is just like the sky. It has a nuance like a clear sky.
Mimuro Sugi Junmai Ginjo Dio Abita is a sake that won the gold medal at the Sake Shop Grand Prize 2023 announced last fall. It has a bouncy aroma, refreshing fruitiness and acidity, and is delicious. I wonder if it would look even better with vegetables.
Today I came out to Shinjuku for the first time in a while, so I went to Sake Cost Sake Brewery Shinjuku Sohonten. Or, well, since I moved, I guess I will inevitably have a series of "it's been a while" from now on.
While I was thinking about what to order, the staff immediately brought me a bottle of Abe Regulus. It seemed to be a limited quantity service.
It is brewed using white malted rice for shochu, and has a muscat-like aroma, acidity, and a mineral taste. It has a flavor similar to that of white wine. Interesting.
It is said to be a low-alcohol sake with no sake-like characteristics, and there was quite a line for it at the Niigata Sake-no-jin (Niigata Sake Festival) the other day.
Morishima Junmai Ginjo Unfiltered Unrefined Nama-nihonjyu Miyamanishiki. This is one of the three types of Morishima available today. It has a clean texture but also has a good amount of acidity, making it an enjoyable type of sake to drink. It's nice to be able to finish with this type of sake.
