UPDATED: APR 3, 2024 Pours white watery without foam. Aroma is soft flowers, taste is flower tones. (Las Vegas 2404)

UPDATED: SEP 4, 2020 750ml bottle purchased for $27. Clear golden color with brilliant clarity. Soft aroma of Water Lilly, Rose pedal, garden cuttings,very green and spring like. The flavor is luscious, coating with warming alcohol and excellent mouthfeel with a long, semi dry finish with only hints of paper. Neutral aftertaste and excellent for sushi and cooked fish pairing.

Bottle shared at a Japanese restaurant in The Hague. Near water appearance. Aroma of sweet rice, light floral notes, vanilla and light grape. Flavour is above moderate sweet.

(Bouteille à Maneki Seattle): Un nuage d’ammoniac, des tons hyper terreux, secs et amers pour compléter le chocolat blanc.

Bottle at a party. Ever the hunter..Anyway, pours a clear yellow color. A fruity pear nose with light grains. The flavor is pretty smooth: sweet dry rice, pears, almost paper like grains, white grapes. There is a big sweetness to this Sake but not overpowering. Smooth. Good.

Bottle - crystal clear, aroma and flavor were mild fruit (apple?), mild sour, fair alcohol, and of course the fermented rice - don’t know much about sake, but this wasn’t bad, especially seemed to go really well with the sushi I ate along with it

served chilled in a chilled glass, pours a crystal clear, light cucumber notes in the nose and taste. No booziness at all. Very solid, very drinkable

Chilled glass at a restaurant. Pours clear and just slightly darker than water. Aroma is of slightly sweet vanilla/frosting. Flavor is quite light, again mostly the medium sweet vanilla frosting, with just tiny hints of cucumber and light fruit like pear. No real alcohol aroma or taste. Body is fairly light for my taste, but it’s a decent sake.

Decanted at sushi zen. Pours crystal brilliantly clear. Bright lemony nose, mild cucumber undertone. Light watery body. Pleasant cucumber mid palate with a long dry finish.

nearly clear and still. neutral nose with notes of pear and floral perfume. mild acid; medium body. perfume floral flavor with major notes of soap and rice and minor notes of peach. alcohol provides a moderate zing. still unsure i’m prepared to evaluate sake all that well, but i found this one somewhere between enjoyable and tolerable, whatever that means.