It has an alcohol content of 19 degrees!
It is recommended to drink it on the rocks or with soda, but it has a sour taste and can be drunk as a regular summer sake.
Junmai Ginjo made with Miyamanishiki, a sake rice originated in Nagano Prefecture, and flower yeast. This time, it is a super dry, reasonably priced bottle made with "begonia flower yeast". It has a mildly refreshing citrus aroma. Although it has a sake meter of +18, it does not give a flimsy impression and is flavored with a firm acidity. It has a very crisp aftertaste and is recommended to be served warmed.
Summer in Japan is hot! Therefore, in order to make sake more comfortable and enjoyable from early summer to mid-summer, we have made a bold move and renewed our low-alcohol unpasteurized sake, which is sweet and sour with a beautiful aftertaste. Nagano yeast R (high malic acid production) is used, and the sake rice is Nagano's popular Yamae-Nishiki. It has a white wine-like nuance and is a delight to enjoy with food.
The Furuya Sake Brewery was destroyed by fire at the end of 2024. After that, with the cooperation and support of many people, including breweries in the same city of Saku, the Saku City Agricultural Administration Division, and sake rice farmers, sake rice that survived the fire was used to brew sake on consignment at Kurosawa Sake Brewery, and now the sake has been released.
Although only a very small amount of sake was produced, we hope that many people will enjoy this sake, which is a new step toward the rebuilding of the brewery.
The store owner attacked me and I was well on my way to buying it (I was forced into a full count and struck out).
It was recommended first and served at the end of the tasting and I caved.
I drink it room temperature, and it has a tingling tongue sensation with a bitter acidity. After that, it firmly asserts itself as a trendy, aromatic sake.
(When cooled (as was the case when I tasted it), the sweetness comes out and the sake goes down your throat easily.
An antenna shop of Nagano in Ginza. It's becoming a typical antenna shop in Tokyo, but foreign tourists are happy to eat in and enjoy the local gourmet food and drink sake. The same goes for Ginza Nagano, where you can get a glass of champagne with the best sake in season. As it happened last autumn, I don't recall the taste of the food...