Choya Umeshu

Saké Brewery in Habikino, Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵

Established in 1962

Contact
160-1 Komagatani, Habikino, 583-0841, Japan
Description
***Most umeshu and other flavored drinks made by Choya are liqueurs using spirits, not sake. If you are going to rate something here, please confirm that is is made with sake 日本酒 or 清酒 and not spirits.***

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4.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 8 Overall 2.5
Bottle from a local Asian supermarket. 14.5%. Sweetish mild melon nose. Neutral mild beginning. Hints of fruity melon. Smooth and quite neutral, fresh, not too deep but nice in the body with a mellow fragile aroma. Smooth and slightly sweetish aftertaste. Crisp and mild with hints of melon, but not too deep or aromaful. Easy to drink with hints of alcohol. ok.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Dec 2016 at 16:06

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 7.5
Cheap little bottle at home. Pours syrupy yellowish. Nose is decent plum and berry. Tastes of mostly plum, some melon, honey, hint of rice and alcohol. Touch syrupy and sweet but not overly so. Fine little sipper glad my bottle is minuscule though prefer my umeshu in small doses
Tried from Bottle on 27 Jun 2016 at 22:23

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
72cl bottle. Pours clear with a slight yellowish tinge, no head and aroma of rice, melon. Taste is similar, rice, melon with woody, earthy, grassy notes and boozy alcohol. Oily mouthfeel, medium bodied, low carbonation, dry finish. Quite OK.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Mar 2015 at 16:31

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottled. Very pale pinky colour with no head. Aroma is mild tart wood, some alcohol, slick sweet rice notes as well as some mild minty notes. Flavour is fruity, floral, wooden and slightly alcoholic with some mild strange acidicness to it.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Nov 2014 at 23:56

3.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
Bottle courtesy Fonefan. Clear water colour. Not pleasent almond aroma. Moderate dry almond/ marcipan flavor. Average finish. Watery palate. Not pleasent.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Jun 2012 at 12:29

3.8/10 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
Tried from Bottle on 30 Mar 2012 at 17:18

5.5/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle 720ml.

Cristal clear water colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy rice, coconut, almond notes. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet with a long duration, alcohol, rice. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20111105]
Tried from Bottle on 16 Nov 2011 at 08:19

5.8/10 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
Tried from Bottle on 05 Nov 2011 at 14:35

4.8/10 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
Tried on 05 Nov 2011 at 14:31

5.5/10 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.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Nov 2011 at 14:28