Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle, 300ml. A clear one, oily, still and headless. The aroma is alcoholic, fruity, ricey and a bit vegetal, with green apple and grass. Oily, full bodied and warming with mostly fruity, vegetal and grassy flavors. A bit rough, but sure decent. 240622
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Small bottle, drunk 3/20/22.
Clear.
Nose is fairly umami with some salinity and light coconut. Drier notes of biscuit and light fruit with no alcohol noted.
Soft, moderately sweet, biscuit, banana-coconut and salty umami. Light alcohol dryness and lingering honey. I like it more than Ernest did.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Glass at work dinner. Light yellow tone to sake. Nose is earthy and faint melon. Tastes of grass, umami, honey dew, leaf litter. Crisp and some bitterness
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
bottle at home ... clear viscous ... soft light raw alcohol ... soft mellow rice nose... light rough alcohol front ... almost spicy ... but mostly just quite a lot of alcohol... almost raki (so maybe hints of aniseed in there)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Nice rice wine, butter, soy sauce and alcohol aroma. Light yellow color. Initially very waterlike then rice and soy flavors gradually come out and finishes with a mild alcohol burn finish. A fairly subtle and clean tasting sake - well balanced with no flavor coming out too strong.