Bottle - Light perfumy pear and sweetness. Creamy mouthfeel. Melon and pear with a nice finish. Well done.

[ Bottle Pour ][ 8oz ][ Okariba Kyoto ][ $9 ][ Sake Bowl + Glass ][ 11.25.15 ]
>> Pours clear with slight yellowish gold tint. Nose is fresh fruit and herbs, no fusel or sickly fruity esters. Flavor piles on big with what is closer to champagne or cognac warming than sake. Excellent heavy body for sake with a dessert white wine-like, vinous flavor. Super well rounded like good cognac or Sauternes. It’s alcoholic and warming, but not hot. Beautiful in every way. Really outstanding. Incredible.

Bottle. Clear pour. Melon, floral, perfume and rice. Crisp initially with smooth but sweet nutty body. Serving slightly chilled seems best

Brought a 75cl bottle from Japan a few years ago. A very smooth and delightful Saké. Overall, a great drink to have and celebrate life.

Sample from bottle. Aroma of light fruit, rice cakes. Taste is very smooth, very light body, clean finish.

720 ml bottle. A gift from my graduating students. Fresh, clean, fruity aroma, melon, fresh, wet sawdust of cedar. Soft, fruity, spicy flavor, some esters, lots of pepper, noticeable, no, strong, alcohol. Very peppery, prickly, and hot. Some citrus, berries; elegant sweetness.   Light, silky body. Very nice, but I expected heavenly nectar. Alcohol too prevalent.  Somewhat watery as well. Good stuff, but I tend not to go in for this Niigata "karakuchi" style. 

Bottle 720ml. @ Halloween Tasting by cgarvieuk.

Clear as cristal color with no head. Aroma is moderate to heavy, rice, floral fruit rice, light to moderate alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, fruity, soft - smooth. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20101030]

72 cL bottle. Pours pale with no head. Crisp rice and slight fruity aroma. Dry and warming alcohol/rice mix. Smooth rice, clean and crisp fruity. Warming finish.

Bottle, halloween tasting @ cgarvieuk. Clear coloured. Aroma is rice, coconut, little boozy, little fruits. Flavour is rice, coconut, fruity. A bit boozy. Little sour. Pleasant.

Bottle at Craig’s, Edinburgh tasting, big thanks to Craig for this sake. Shared in company of Craig, Stella, Jan, Charlotte, Fritz and Loz 30.10.10 I hope that I don’t get too slayed for a poor review of this Sake, I really have little experience of this type of drink. It look’s like water, great clarity, this is possibly a little rougher in the mouth than our previous Sake, but it works fine for me, smooth, not sweet, alcohol just doesn’t show, sorry cannot be anymore descriptive than that. A7 A5 T7 P4 Ov14 3.7