Masumi Karakuchi Junmai Ginjo Ki-Ippon Sake
Miyasaka Shuzo Co. (真澄) in Suwa, Nagano, Japan 🇯🇵
Saké - Junmai Ginjo Regular|
Score
5.77
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Refined fragrance. Clearly elegant taste.
Sake Type/Junmai Ginjo
Rice/Miyama Nishiki
Seimai-buai (Milling Rate)/55%
Alcohol/15%
Nihonshu-do (Sake Meter Value)/+5
Acidity/1.6
"This sake's complex fragrance and flavorful tail earn it our "black label" of quality. One of the central pillars of the Masumi brand."
"Ki-ippon" means pure rice "sake" brewed only in a single manufacturing place, and therefore the term is similar to "junmai."
Sake Type/Junmai Ginjo
Rice/Miyama Nishiki
Seimai-buai (Milling Rate)/55%
Alcohol/15%
Nihonshu-do (Sake Meter Value)/+5
Acidity/1.6
"This sake's complex fragrance and flavorful tail earn it our "black label" of quality. One of the central pillars of the Masumi brand."
"Ki-ippon" means pure rice "sake" brewed only in a single manufacturing place, and therefore the term is similar to "junmai."
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5.9/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
My first Sake rating. Together with some Sushi. Clear light yellow/green colour and no head. A light tequila aroma. Some rice probably. Moderate sweet flavour and a bit waterish. Some rice i guess, and not much alcohol taste. Maybee some light citrus in the back of my mouth. I love Sushi, have to get used to sake..... It was not bad, so I probably try another one next time I eat Sushi
[Bottle from Vinmonopolet in Halden, Norway]
[Bottle from Vinmonopolet in Halden, Norway]
Tried
on 24 Feb 2026
at 13:15
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
300 ml bottle. Soft citrus nose, stone fruit, very peppery. Slightly oily and full. Peppery, smooth flavor, citrus, apple, rice pudding, then a lovely dry finish. The kind of dry sake I like. Still has full flavor and delicious fruitiness but a great, peppery, dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2019
at 23:15
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Sample @ SBWF 12. Clear colour. Sweet rice, alcohol aroma. Sweet alcohol flavour.
Tried
on 18 Oct 2012
at 07:26
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@SBWF2012. Clean see through water colour, no head. Aroma is rice, mild alcohol, some slight fruity and spicy notes. Flavour is wood, resin, mild sweet rice and some slight alcoholic sweetness pushing through as well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2012
at 02:45
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Clear water colour. Moderate marcipan aroma. Average moderate marcipoan flavor. Average finish. Oily palate. Boring sake.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2012
at 08:22
5.1/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Clear as water. Aroma is sweet, rice and alcohol. Flavor is quite sweet. Sweet finish with warming alcohol. 280112
Tried
on 28 Jan 2012
at 17:35
4.9/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. No head. Color is water. Aroma and taste are rice malt, alcohol and marzipan notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2012
at 17:33
6.2/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 720ml. @ [ The Pool Tabel Tasting in Rome ].
Crystal clear water colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy rice, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration, neutral and simple. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20101220]
Crystal clear water colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy rice, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration, neutral and simple. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20101220]
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2011
at 11:21
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. A still, clear, colorless sake. Seems to be a hint of color actually. Oily pour. Some alcohol in the aroma, with apples and pears and some rice. Hints of citrus fruits and a faint cardboard note. Oily and medium bodied, a bit more warming than pleasant. Some sweetness in the flavor, mostly dry though, with a good fruityness. Alcohol and fruityness in the finish. A pleasant one, tasteful, but too evident on the alcohol. 100716
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2010
at 16:11
2.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
300 ml green bottle, from Vinmonopolet. ABV is 15%. Clear, nearly colourless, like water. No carbonation. Aroma of dust, boiled rice, cardboard, fusel alcohol and stale marzipan. Flavour of rice soaked in raw alcohol. The great point about sake still eludes me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2010
at 12:20