Hachikaisan Special Junmai Harusake Nama-Zume Kanazawa-yasan One Year Aged.
In this May, "Tokujun" Nama-zume is released every year as a summer sake. I was torn between buying this year's freshly brewed sake or the one-year aged sake on the shelf, but I decided to go with the "aged" version. The price was 4,000 yen for a bottle, including tax.
Now, the aroma is that of sweet yeast, which is typical of nama-shu, and there is no alcohol smell. Well, it is junmai sake. The color is easy to recognize, with a faint yellow tint, and comparing it with unaged sake is good practice for the sake test. The taste is refreshing, as is typical of summer sake, and the aging process has given it just the right amount of roundedness. It is a dry sake with a slightly bitter aftertaste that quickly fades away.
| List of Labels | |||
| raw rice | domestic products | Malted rice used | |
| ratio indicating the quantity of polished rice gained from a given quantity of brown rice (nowadays usually expressed as a percent) | 55%. | sake brewing name | Hakkai Brewery |
| Yeast used | Manufacturing Prefectures | Niigata prefecture (Hokuriku area) | |
| sake (implied to be low-grade) | ＋About +8 | Production period | 202406 |
| acidity | low (position) | Date of purchase | 20250530 |
| amino acid degree | slightly | Tasting Day | 20250530 |
| alcohol content (usu. expressed per cent) | 17%. | Where to Buy | Kanazawa-Ya (department store) |
| specific name | Tokusen Junmai Genshu (special pure sake) | optional entry | |
| Other Special Notes | |||
| wine tasting | |||
| Information on vision | |||
| cage | even | ||
| sunshine | colorant | a certain extent | |
| Information on sense of smell | |||
| (incense) pastille | sweet | incense | |
| tobacco smoke | incense for the aged | nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia, esp. var. culta) | |
| type of incense brewed by low temperature fermentation from white rice milled to 60% | slightly | ||
| Information on Taste | |||
| sweetness | slightly | elegant | |
| depressing the string of a zither with one's left hand | light (flavor, flavour) | light (flavor, flavour) | |
| heavy | sliding | ||
| light (i.e. not heavy) | light (i.e. not heavy) | bitterness | aftertaste |
| grudges and hard feelings | salty (taste) | bustling | |
| peppiness (of a ball) | good | rich | |
| clean | beautiful | 幅 | |
| off-flavor | nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia, esp. var. culta) | old age | nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia, esp. var. culta) |
| acidity | nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia, esp. var. culta) | swelling | good |
| astringency | dimwit | nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia, esp. var. culta) | |
| round | rounded | young | |
