This time I
got something new! Well at least on this blog. Sake! So far I had a few good ones in my life, but I am most
certain that this one was the best I ever had. Besides that I am most certainly not an expert in this very complicated and
challenging field of beverages. To make my point clear: I did not even know what
kind of sake this was until a couple of fellows from wineberserkers.com gave me
a helping (translation-) hand. Enough premature sorry blather. Today’s sake
comes from Akita Prefecture in the very north of Honshu Island. It is a Junmai 純米 (pure rice) Ginjyo 吟醸酒 (brewed like a poem) sake named Hiraizumi
(Splashing Spring Water). Apparently it was made of Miyamanishiki sake rice
and the best “Cru” of the house.
