Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Alcoholic nose with some caramel, nice rice and restrained pefumey ginjoka. Sweet flavor of ripe fruit, a bit of aging (1 year old), smooth full body, good stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Huge roasted rice aroma-crazy! Smells like a yaki onigiri--a grilled rice ball. Need chopsticks for this? Roasty rice flavor like the burnt okoge when roasted in an iron kettle. Nice sour, funky edge as well. Very original.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Nose of caramel, rice, umami, full aroma, a bit funky but not much ginjoka. Quite sour in the mouth, sweet as well, fruity, with pineapple, tropical fruits, citrus. Original as hell and great.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
500 ml bottle. Brownish yellow color, rather thick looking. Aroma of caramel, raisins, funk, and rice. Sweet, fruity flavor with a strong sour edge, muscat grapes, raisins, rice, and sweet white wine. Interesting and tasty, though not perfect--a bit too funky and dirty tasting.