Gekkeikan (Laurel Crown) Traditional Sake
Gekkeikan Sake (USA) in Folsom, California, United States 🇺🇸
Saké - Junmai Regular|
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5.26
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Gekkeikan Traditional is the world’s most popular Junmai-shu! It embodies the signature Gekkeikan style and represents over 370 years and 14 generations of sake brewing experience.
Style: Herbaceous with hints of grapefruit and a light earthiness. Good acidity, mineral driven, well-balanced with a clean, medium finish.
Pairing Notes: Delicious with tempura, full flavored fish and shellfish, fresh green vegetable dishes, and coconut-based Asian dishes. A flavorful base for stocks and marinades.
Serving Suggestions: This versatile sake can be enjoyed warm, at room temperature or chilled. Excellent for sake cocktails and infusions.
Product Information :
Alc./Volume: 15.6% (750ml & 1.5L) 14.6% (18L & 1.8L barrel)
Size: Available in 750ml, 1.5L, 1.8L barrel and 18L
Class: Junmai-shu
Sake Meter Value: +2
Sulfite and gluten free
Style: Herbaceous with hints of grapefruit and a light earthiness. Good acidity, mineral driven, well-balanced with a clean, medium finish.
Pairing Notes: Delicious with tempura, full flavored fish and shellfish, fresh green vegetable dishes, and coconut-based Asian dishes. A flavorful base for stocks and marinades.
Serving Suggestions: This versatile sake can be enjoyed warm, at room temperature or chilled. Excellent for sake cocktails and infusions.
Product Information :
Alc./Volume: 15.6% (750ml & 1.5L) 14.6% (18L & 1.8L barrel)
Size: Available in 750ml, 1.5L, 1.8L barrel and 18L
Class: Junmai-shu
Sake Meter Value: +2
Sulfite and gluten free
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4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Last couple of heavy drinking events I’ve been to some jokester brings a bottle of this and tries to get people to drink. Most don’t but I end up chugging from bottle. This pours like water with alcoholic nose. Tastes mostly of rubbing alcohol but with light fruit, rice, grains, and grass. Not a great sake but the price keeps bringing this back into my life and I’ll keep drinking I assume
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2012
at 20:06
5.1/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle at fonefan tasting. No head. Color is pale as water. Aroma and taste are rice, almonds and alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2010
at 15:41
5.8/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 187ml. @ post De Molen we want to goto bed Sake Tasting.
Clear cristal color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy rice, coconut, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet with a average to long duration, ruf, alcohol. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20100925]
Clear cristal color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy rice, coconut, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet with a average to long duration, ruf, alcohol. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20100925]
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2010
at 00:23
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
bottle at post De Molen we want to goto bed Sake tasting ...clear ... light earthy light coconut nose .. huge coconut ... quite a lot of alcohol ... very intense flavour ... bit of a shock actually ... but not to bad once you get over the shock.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2010
at 12:38
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle, 75cl, at RBNAG -09. Courtesy of Sigmund. A clear, slightly yellowish sake. The nose feels dry and like wet paper, with a good addition of alcohol. Not in a very unpleasant way, but not wonderful either. It’s much the same on the palate, medium fullness, dry, and with warming alcohol and some wet paper. Rice too. Warming finish with rice and wet paper. Not my cup of tea. 091107
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2010
at 08:07
1.5/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 1
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1
750 ml green bottle, from Vinmonopolet. ABV is 14.6%. Drank fridge cold. Clear, nearly colourless, like water - no carbonation. Unpleasant aroma of burnt rubber. Flavour of alcohol and water, hints of rice and rubber. What a crappy drink! This was my first sake, and will also probably be my last one - unless for free and forced upon me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2009
at 19:54
4.4/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Warm, served at Sushi Haru in SKC, MO. This is my first Sake rating, and maybe the third I have had in my life. Strong hot rice and alcohol odor. Taste is the alcohol, but there is also a warming, almost nutty flavor / sensation. Body seemed thin, almost watery. I had this as a complement to an Asahi Dry, and the two, along with excellent sushi was quite nice. However, standing alone, not sure how much I enjoyed this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2007
at 01:22
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
I will be honest, I don’t know much about sake. What I do know comes from a friend of mine who likes to drink it. With that said, I honestly can’t say that the aroma or flavor was too unappetising.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jan 2007
at 21:47
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottle. Served room temperature. Pours a medium thick looking rusty yellow, with some paler gold tinges around the edges. Smells acidic, sharp and quite vinegary, but not nearly as dry as the Ozeki. Flavor, however, is a different story, tons of sharp alcohol, huge acidic bite, the rice seemed rough and unrefined. I could drink it well enough, but I would like some subtleties and less abusive alcohol apparency. Good sharp finish however.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2004
at 12:04