On the way home from work, it was raining like a waterfall. I was actually planning to go shopping for sake, but compromised and went to a nearby liquor store.
Kinoene Byakuya
I bought this one by the packet. Koshi: White Night
The rice polishing ratio is undisclosed. I looked at the label and wondered if there was any point in hiding it. I looked it up and found it was KINOENE. Even Japanese cannot read this kanji. As usual, I am weak against the word “limited edition. I was thrilled and excited. I found out that it has a sake degree of -12.4 / acidity of 1.8.
Sake meter is a standard to indicate the sweetness or dryness of sake, with positive values indicating dryness and negative values indicating sweetness. Generally, a value of +3.5 or higher is considered dry and a value of -3.5 or lower is considered sweet. I heard that +6 or higher is very dry and -6 or lower is very sweet.
Acidity is a numerical value that indicates the percentage of acid components in a solution. In the case of sake, it represents the amount of organic acid, and an average acidity of 1.3 to 1.5 is a good guide.
This means that the sake is sweet and slightly sour. The label is also a mouse and a tortoise. It is an interesting label design.
Now let’s open the bottle. Fruity aroma. Like melon.
Gulp
Taste
Utashiro Narukami
It’s sweeter than the aroma. Personally, I find it quite sweet. Rice juice. It could be made into a kinky sorbet state. I would like to reduce the sweetness with temperature. It may be good for beginners and women, but for sake-loving drinkers, it is too sweet. It is quite sweet even at room temperature. It is not bad, but the sweetness will surprise you if you don’t know about it beforehand.
Kouji Junmai Ginjo Nama Shu RAIKOU〉The fresh and gorgeous aroma you feel the moment you put it in your mouth and the gaseous sensation you feel when it pops is truly a symbol of the Kouji of today. You will enjoy the change from the thunderbolt-like impact you feel immediately after opening the bottle to the body and roundness of the flavor that becomes more pronounced as the gaseous sensation gradually dissipates.
This is how the Iinuma family describes the taste.
Today’s snack is Beef tongue grilled with a crispy texture.
This time, even before eating the 7-Eleven beef tongue, I was anxious to see how it would go with the sweetness of the beef tongue.
After all, the pairing was not so good this time either. The fusion of fat and sweetness is very difficult to achieve.
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