Bottle, served cold. Pours a milky white. Aroma of bananas and leaves. Has a nice middle-bite to it. Sweet banana, coconut, and rice flavor with a warming alcohol finish.

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, it is about the same as the other cheap sakes I’ve tried. Until I’ve tried a really good one, I can’t really say either way.

Of course I didn’t save the bottle, figuring this would already be on the database. That was a dumb assumption, since not much work has been done with sake here (relatively speaking). At the risk of adding a relabel, I will add it here however. I do know it is made by Ozeki (USA) and I bought my bottle at the Belfast Co-op in Maine in October 2006 and drank it on 10/14/06. 250mL bottle. Hopefully they have some more left over xmas and I can get some more details.
Mostly clear appearance, hint of very light off-white. Not very viscous looking, but produces plentiful legs, though they are not overly long-lasting or thick.
Sweet in the nose, but not at all in a sickly-sweet way. Lots of nuttiness lends a more dry quality, while some very mild fruits and bits of unacidc pineapple come through. Very strong aroma as well, dosent take much to discern, nor is the alcohol readily apparent.
Flavor is equally as impressive, having probably the lowest amount of acidity I have yet encountered in a non-nigori. Sweet, but again, not outlandishly so. Hard to describe, but it was just really drinkable. No sharpness, no alcohol burn. Not perfumey or \"elegant\" as you might say, but still clean, polished and full of rice flavor. Almost a hint of marmalade on the end. Fairly light texture, no graininess or syrupiness.

2004 bottle from the Belfast Organic Co-op in Maine. Ah, it’s nice to finally have the chance to sit down and rate a beer (sake in this case) in front of the computer. It’s been a long time.
Aroma of crystal clear spring water, light, bleached white rice. Faint touches of coconut and rice meal. Hints of alcohol are very faint. Not tremendously aromatic, or at least, I can’t find much. Flavor, however, is quite interesting. Coconuts, rice pudding/boiled white rice. Rice milk beverage and hints of vanilla. Palate is voloptuous and silky at the same time, with a full, creamy and light-coconut milk like texture. Finishes rather dry, and with some odd rice husk flavors that are not quite as good as the flavor through the body. Vanilla beans and some alcohol linger on, with the liquid sitting thickly on the tongue. A very interesting sake. Appearance is still and clear. Good amount of legs coat the rim of the glass, lasting and quite 3-dimensional.

Starts out with a light but strong alcohol flavor that has a slightly syrupy sugar flavor, that tastes like unrefined cane syrup. The rice flavor grows and finishes with a medium acidic rice/alcohol flavor. Very grainy, but quite tasty. Strong. Taken warm you get more of a true rice flavor, but you also get a hot alcohol burn. Has a white appearance, but has some waves in it, glucose-like. Aroma is a sharp moderately acetic grain. Not very complex on palate or nose.