Kiku-Masamune Kojo Junmai Sake
Kiku-Masamune Sake Brewing Co., Ltd. in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan 🇯🇵
Saké - Junmai Regular|
Score
6.85
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菊正宗 純米酒 香醸.
This amazing junmai-shu has such a rich aroma like daiginjo sake. No wonder this sake has won three awards in a short time! Enjoy as cold and taste this apple-ish elegant flavour! Using Kiku-Masamune's newly developed sake yeast HA14, lends this semi-sweet sake the fragrant aroma of fruits and flowers, while leaving the deliciously smooth umami-rich character typical of Junmai grade sake intact.
Serve chilled for best results.
Food Pairings: Japanese Cuisine, dishes with delicate and subtle aromatics flavors.
Polishing ratio (seimaibuai) (精米歩合): 70%.
Sake Meter Value (nihonshudo) (日本酒度): -2.
Acidity (sando) (酸度): 1.6.
Amino acid (アミノ酸): 1.9.
Serve at 7 to 15° C.
Ingredients: water, rice, koji, yeast (HA14).
Paper cup size: 180 ml.
Bottle size: 300 ml, 720 ml, 1800 ml.
This amazing junmai-shu has such a rich aroma like daiginjo sake. No wonder this sake has won three awards in a short time! Enjoy as cold and taste this apple-ish elegant flavour! Using Kiku-Masamune's newly developed sake yeast HA14, lends this semi-sweet sake the fragrant aroma of fruits and flowers, while leaving the deliciously smooth umami-rich character typical of Junmai grade sake intact.
Serve chilled for best results.
Food Pairings: Japanese Cuisine, dishes with delicate and subtle aromatics flavors.
Polishing ratio (seimaibuai) (精米歩合): 70%.
Sake Meter Value (nihonshudo) (日本酒度): -2.
Acidity (sando) (酸度): 1.6.
Amino acid (アミノ酸): 1.9.
Serve at 7 to 15° C.
Ingredients: water, rice, koji, yeast (HA14).
Paper cup size: 180 ml.
Bottle size: 300 ml, 720 ml, 1800 ml.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
300ml bottle, chilled. Bottled July 2021 so a little over 3 years old now, may have passed its best. Clear with a faint yellow tint. Aroma is floral, melon, pear. Taste is sweet, floral notes, pear, melon, warming booze. Smooth medium body. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2024
at 01:40
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
15/8/2023. Bottle shared by danlo, cheers Ed! Pours clear without colour and with no head. Aroma of melon, candy, flowers, hint of honey, crab apple and bounty bar chocolate. Moderate sweetness and medium bitterness. Quite full bodied, smooth and oily, low carbonation. Decent quality sake.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2023
at 18:54
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
300ml bottle from Japan Centre. Clear with very pale yellow tinge, no head and aroma of rice, melon, fruity, floral. Taste is sweetish, fruity, rice, earthy, tangy, floral, with some booze. Oily mouthfeel, medium bodied, low carbonation, drying warming earthy boozy finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2023
at 21:35
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
720mL bottle drunk July 2022.
Clear, glassy.
Big, fruity nose, koji-heavy nose with light coconut and floral notes on the end. Obviously a New England Sake.
Juicy, rich, viscous and rather clean on the end with big fruit notes of citrus and tropical mango/papaya. Lingering vanilla, mild nuttiness and more creamy-sweet notes. Not too sweet. I like the fruitiness. Definitely interesting.
Clear, glassy.
Big, fruity nose, koji-heavy nose with light coconut and floral notes on the end. Obviously a New England Sake.
Juicy, rich, viscous and rather clean on the end with big fruit notes of citrus and tropical mango/papaya. Lingering vanilla, mild nuttiness and more creamy-sweet notes. Not too sweet. I like the fruitiness. Definitely interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2022
at 13:37
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 8
Drank cold. The olfactory intensity is normal, and the olfactory persistence is sufficient. The taste on the nose - dominant aroma is of malted rice Koji. The taste on the nose - secondary aromas finds impressions of vanilla, kiwi, cooked pear, mimosa and white melon. The first impression of intensity in the mouth is of solid sake. The body is full. The taste intensity is high, and the taste persistence is good. The taste is pleasant. The final mouth sensations are ready to drink. Hints of melon, fruit, apricot, herbs, mushrooms and spring water linger on the roof of the mouth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2019
at 11:07