3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cherry and buttercream aroma, quite buttery. Crystal clear pale yellow. Syrupy sweet cherries. Warm like a cherry cordial, but with not trace of chocolate. Medium bodied, but weightless and clean as it slides down the gullet. Tasty but with little sake character, over infused. Better warm, not hot, so the base sake comes through better
2.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Bottle with Ume, but labeled at 14.6% ABV. Slightly yellowish or golden with some light legs. Aroma is sweet with honey, melon, marzipan, plum and that wooden stick that a doctor puts in your mouth to hold your tongue down. Flavor is cloyingly sweet with maple and plum and then finishes acidic. Blah. Syrupy. Bad.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Glass in Tokyo Cafe, Amsterdam. Golden appel body with apple nose. Taste of plums, apples. Quite a sweet and acidic flavoured-Sake.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottle: Pours a light pinkish color but mostly clear, no legs. The nose is odd; fruity with koji and dry rice but it comes off more like bitter fruit skin and musky rice, which seems almost like chlorine or pool-water. The flavor is semi-sweet and nice with a little sake notes and a little ume note. Rounded finish with a little more pool-water. Interesting blend, a little sweet in the tail, but it’s not cloying, which is better than nothing.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Light, sweet plum aroma layered over a fairly standard sake nose. Sweet, fairly acidic plum flavor stops just short of being cloying. A bit simple, but not bad
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