Clear golden pour A quite mild aroma Mellow sweetness and a flat carbonation Soya, fruity, rice and some spices in the flavor [Bottle from a trade with Inbreak]

From my sake backlog. 350 ml bottle. Clear straw-yellow body. Aroma is dominated by citric fruit but there are also a hint of raisins and some alcohol in the direction of noble German Eiswein. This is stronger in aroma compared with other sakes from Nøgne Ø. Flavor is fruity, especially citric, with a nice hint of acidity and warming alcohol. Soft and rich mouth feel. Long and pleasant aftertastes where a faint hint of fruity bitterness are detected after a while. A very nice and easy to drink Sake, almost a bit too easy drinkable, as I was getting used to some more challenging flavors in Sake by now, not meant to be a negative thing, just surprised

Imported from my RateBeer account as Nøgne Ø Sake Yamahai Motoshibori (by Nøgne Ø (Hansa Borg)):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5

7/VI/18 - 33cl bottle @ home - BB: n/a, bottled: 3/V/13 (2018-752) Thanks to Tinus for sharing the bottle!

Clear pale beige to ochre coloured sake. Aroma: lots of umami, fish sauce, sugary, alcohol, yeast, fruity, banana peel, cheesy, intense! MF: medium body. Taste: sweet start, lots of alcohol, little bitter, cheesy, slightly acidic, fruity. Aftertaste: fish sauce, weird fermenting flavours, bit lemony, yeast, bitter touch, acidic, alcohol, cheesy finish.

Bottled@The Hobbit Tasting. Yellow colour with no head. Aroma is quite white wine like with some rice, mild sweet sappy notes as well as some alcohol. Flavour is white wine, some berries, mild alcohol as well as some rice and mild sappy and herbal notes. Quite boozy as it warmed up a bit.

350ml bottle. Clear pale yellow colour, no head just afew bubbles, and aroma of rice, booze, earthy. Taste is rice, sweet dried fruits, caramel, wood, straw, grassy boozy, plus slight citrus notes. Oily mouthfeel, medium bodied, low carbonation, drying boozy finish. Quite sippable.

Lys gul farge. Lukter syrlige epler, og gjær. God syrlig i smak. Har ikke smakt mange saker men denne er den beste til nå.

Sehr fruchtiger Antrunk ohne alkoholischen Einfluss. Vollmundig säuerlich fruchtig, weich, hell, gut! 12/12/12/12//12

Bottle. It pours a crystal clear, straw yellow body, flat and still as expected. The aroma is a bit rough around the edges, so a little rest in the glass does good. It’s a very fruity one, with notes of pears and yellow apples, cucumber and something almost peachy. Not exactly peachy, but at least down that road. Also some cellary, rice-ish hints. It’s warming and quite full-bodied on the palate, dry and acidic, and slightly sort of papery chewy. Lots of fruity flavors, and a touch of some cellar and boiled rice towards the end. Quite warming finish too. Both the aroma and flavor seems to benefit from some time in the glass, to hone off the roughest edges, and of course the palate adapts, so that after a few minutes it gets really nice. I don’t think I could drink a lot of it, I know at least one of the tojis can, but like when having a glass of wine with your meal, it’s not the quantitiy that counts. Ok, the score might be biased by the fact that the beer is from one of my favorite breweries, and the fact that I’ve waiting to have this as RB-rating no 8000 and my birthday, but I’m pretty sure I can rate it similar the next time I drink it. And there will be a next time, several next times. 110831

Bottled at Københavnske Øldage 2011.
Clear very pale yellow. Aniseed dominate the nose. Dry with edglessslender grainy body. Elegant with lots of licorice and mid peppery alcohol.