No. 468INDEX / 321
Senkin Akatonbo
Senkin, Tochigi
Reviewed in H2 2025
Is the year over already?
SCOREOverall score
80pts
SPECBasic data
- Rice
- Domaine Sakura Yamadanishiki
- Polishing ratio
- koji rice50%kake rice (main mash rice)60％
- Alcohol
- 14%
- Type
- kimoto (traditional starter method), hiyaoroshi (autumn release)
- List price
- ¥1,950
PROFILEFlavour chart
JUDGEMENTStraight-Talking Sake Judgement
TOCKY's report
Taste3.5
Aroma3.5
Value for money3.5
Numata's report
Taste3.5
Aroma3.5
Value for money3.0
NOTESNumata's tasting noteTRANSLATED
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This is the first "Aka-tonbo" since the brewery shifted entirely to kimoto brewing. It's characterised by an acidity brimming with the lactic quality that comes from kimoto. From the moment you tilt the glass, you sense a yogurt-like acidity and a soft body. The flavour, too, is a straightforward acidity. Against a cool, transparent character where a faint umami and sweetness are only barely felt, a sharp, piercing acidity stretches on and on, endlessly. Acidic enough, you might say, that even a dragonfly couldn't survive in it.