Takagami Shu Unfiltered
This is an ambitious product from Takachiyo Sake Brewery as the ultimate home-drinking sake. The price is a surprising 2,200 yen for a bottle. The specifications are undisclosed and the product is extremely limited. This is the "Shu" of the series. The top aroma is of yeast, but it is not what one would call a ginjo aroma. The overt aroma is also yeasty. The taste is light and sweet, with no bitterness or astringency. The addition of brewing alcohol keeps the alcohol content at 15%, making it easy to drink.
Purchased at Kanazawa-ya Sake Shop in Shiozawa, Minamiuonuma, limited to one bottle per person.
| 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) | private | sake brewing name | Takachiyo Brewery |
| Yeast used | Manufacturing Prefectures | Niigata prefecture (Hokuriku area) | |
| sake (implied to be low-grade) | About -2 | Production period | 202401 |
| acidity | private | Date of purchase | 20240201 |
| amino acid degree | Tasting Day | 20240201 | |
| alcohol content (usu. expressed per cent) | 15 | Where to Buy | Kanazawa-ya (i.e. a geisha, prostitute, etc.) |
| specific name | optional entry | ||
| Other Special Notes | |||
| wine tasting | |||
| Information on vision | |||
| cage | even | ||
| sunshine | colorant | ||
| Information on sense of smell | |||
| (incense) pastille | incense | ||
| tobacco smoke | incense for the aged | ||
| type of incense brewed by low temperature fermentation from white rice milled to 60% | |||
| Information on Taste | |||
| sweetness | elegant | ||
| depressing the string of a zither with one's left hand | light (flavor, flavour) | ||
| heavy | sliding | ||
| light (i.e. not heavy) | bitterness | ||
| grudges and hard feelings | bustling | ||
| peppiness (of a ball) | rich | ||
| clean | 幅 | ||
| off-flavor | old age | ||
| acidity | swelling | ||
| astringency | dimwit | ||
| round | young | ||
