Rasmus40 (37007) reviewed Choya Sake Pure Rice Wine from Choya Umeshu 13 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Clear as water without head. Aroma is sweet, rice and a little alcohol. Flavor is very sweet. Very sweet finish withheavy alcohol. Watery. 300312
yngwie (24278) reviewed Choya Sake from Choya Umeshu 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, 72cl. Pours with a light yellowish color to an else clear body. Cellar, cooked rice and apples on the nose. Some boozy hints, even though it’s only 13,5% ABV. The flavor has a distinct fruityness to deal with the rice, and then the alcohol kicks in adding an extra dimension. Well, that might lead you to think this is a complex and superb sake, but I don’t feel it that way. Slighlty warming on the palate. A drinkable one indeed, but not worth a detour. 111105
Rasmus40 (37007) reviewed Choya Sake from Choya Umeshu 14 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Clear as water. Aroma is quite sweet, fruity, rice and alcohol. Flavor is quite sweet. Sweet finish with lots og alcohol. 051111
saxo (29721) reviewed Choya Sake from Choya Umeshu 14 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. No head. Color is like water. Aroma and taste are almonds, marzipan, rice malt and alcohol.
yngwie (24278) reviewed Choya Sake Pure Rice Wine from Choya Umeshu 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle, 75cl courtesy of fonefan. An oily pour leaves a clear, almost non-colored body. Papery rice, some fruityness, almond extract and some sugary notes on the nose. Alcoholic too, and that goes for the flavor as well. And the aftertaste. Oily, warming mouthfeel with rice, fruityness and something sugary. Too unclean and not very pleasant. 110128
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Choya Sake Pure Rice Wine from Choya Umeshu 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
botlle at jans ... clear ... soft dull sharp spirit nose ... odd medicinal spirit ... quite rought ... light floral rice linger
saxo (29721) reviewed Choya Sake Pure Rice Wine from Choya Umeshu 15 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle at fonefan tasting. No head. Color is pale as water. Aroma and taste are almonds, marcipan and alcohol.
SHIG (13882) reviewed Choya Sake Pure Rice Wine from Choya Umeshu 17 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle: Poured a clear color. The aroma was very alcohol and thinner. The taste is watery with a warm medicine and alcohol burn.
Marko (22181) reviewed Choya Sake Pure Rice Wine from Choya Umeshu 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
0.75l bottle. Produced by Choya Umeshu Deutschland in Willich. I spotted this almost by accident in the big Merkur store near the Graz bus station, and ozujsko got it (thanks!). My second sake, and I’m not completely sure I still fully understand the subleties of this type of beverage. Completely clear and still, like water. Nose... interesting. Medicinal, a bit overly so, nice notes of rice crackers and some nougat. The taste is sweeter than the last I had. Watery of course, some weak lemon and some medicine. Not bad, but didn’t impress me. Wish I could’ve done a side by side comparison with Mitoku. The medicinal "quality" apparently gets a lot more pronounced when warm, but I didn’t try it that way, and it wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. I might be underrating it too.