No. 377INDEX / 321
Private Lab Amagaeru 2023
Aramasa Shuzo, Akita
Reviewed in H1 2024
Fierce gas that blows summer away
SCOREOverall score
86pts
SPECBasic data
- Rice
- Akita-grown rice
- Polishing ratio
- Koji60, kake rice60
- Alcohol
- —
- Type
- Junmai (pure rice), kimoto (traditional starter method), kioke (wooden vat), bottle-conditioned (secondary bottle fermentation)
- List price
- ¥2,860
PROFILEFlavour chart
JUDGEMENTStraight-Talking Sake Judgement
TOCKY's report
Taste4.5
Aroma3.5
Value for money2.0
Numata's report
Taste4.5
Aroma4.0
Value for money2.0
NOTESNumata's tasting noteTRANSLATED
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PAIRINGCOMING SOON
From Aramasa's Private Lab, here's Amagaeru — the hardest of them all to get your hands on, and even harder to open. There's a sweet-tart, mellow nuance like strawberry daifuku, and a buttery richness. The fizz is intense yet fine-grained, popping gently for a blissful mouthfeel. The flavor is over very quickly: by the time the fizz settles, all that's left is a faint afterglow of pale sweetness and richness — like the ripples a frog makes leaping into an old pond...