Tasting Notes - 杉玉 Sugidama: Sake blog

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- Tokubetsu Honjozo
- Akashi-Tai Honjozo Tokubetsu
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- Aromatic full-flavoured semi-dry sake from Hyogo prefecture offers amazing value for your money
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- Junmai Daiginjo
- Atago no Sakura Junmai Daiginjo
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- Light and delicate junmai daiginjo with banana notes and soft texture. Perfect for pairing with a wide range of food.
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- Junmai Ginjo
- Bijofu Junrei Tama Junmai Ginjo
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- Beautiful light and elegant junmai ginjo sake from Kochi prefecture, brewed with very soft water and Matsuyama Mii rice.
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- Junmai Ginjo
- Daishichi Masakura Junmai Ginjo
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- Traditionally brewed kimoto sake with an elegant but complex aroma, rich flavour, and creamy texture made using the innovative super-flat rice-polishing technique developed by the brewery.
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- Junmai Daiginjo
- Dassai 50 Junmai Daiginjo
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- Fruity and easy to drink Junmai Daiginjo, one of the most versatile sake in the market
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- Ginjo
- Dewazakura Sarasara Nama Ginjo Nigori
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- Fresh and light seasonal cloudy sake with a clean finish from Yamagata prefecture
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- Junmai Ginjo
- Fukukomachi Junmai Ginjo
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- Perfectly balanced easy-to-drink junmai ginjo sake from the brewery founded in 1615
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- Junmai
- Gozenshu 1859 Prototype
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- A limited-edition complex unpasteurised and undiluted junmai sake: wild, bold and intriguing.
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- Junmai
- Hakutsuru Shuzo Sayuri Junmai Nigori
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- An elegant and relatively inexpensive nigori sake which would appeal to those who like sake on the sweeter side
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- Junmai Daiginjo
- Honijikomi-Kamoizumi Junmai Daiginjo
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- Mellow easy-to-drink off-dry sake from Hiroshima Prefecture.
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- Junmai Daiginjo
- Hyakujuro Junmai Daiginjo (Black Face)
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- Sweeter but well-balanced sake with a fruity aroma with vanilla notes and dried fruit and honey in the taste.
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- Honjozo
- Ichinokura Mukansa Honjozo Sake “Extra Dry”
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- Extra-dry light, smooth and crisp sake with a bit of vanilla in the taste and delicate rose and cherry aroma.

Alex

Alex is a London-based sake blogger, podcaster, IWC Sake judge and sake advocate. He is a publisher of the Sugidama Blog website and a host of the Sugidama Podcast. Alex has an International Kikisake-shi (Sake Specialist) qualification from SSI (Sake Service Institute). He sees his mission as expanding the awareness of Japanese sake among as many people as possible and helping the growing community of sake lovers to bring together beautiful Japanese sake and non-Japanese food as a way to build a better understanding between our cultures.