Gekkeikan (月桂冠) Kin No Shichi Fukujin Meguri
Brewery : Gekkeikan
Area : Japan > Kyoto
Sake Type : Sei-shu
Alcohol : 14%
Price : ￥
Score : 88 by MoIppai (11/05/2011)
New Years is a big holiday in Japan, much more so than Christmas (which they kinda celebrate, mainly by eating cake, but there's no day off work). For about a week over New Years business stop working, shops close and people relax at home and drink sake and eat special food.Area : Japan > Kyoto
Sake Type : Sei-shu
Alcohol : 14%
Price : ￥
Score : 88 by MoIppai (11/05/2011)
It's traditional to drink sake on New Years day at lunchtime with a special selection of food called Osechi. Usually this sake is a special kind of sake that often has flakes of gold in it.
This is one of Gekkeikan Brewery's New Years special sake (and it has the gold flakes).
It's a light, fresh, crisp sake, perfect for lunchtime drinking (on New Years day!).
Admittedly I'm not a big fan of osechi (mashed sweet potato with chestnuts, black soybeans, simmered burdock root, etc), so I had it cold with salami, parma ham, cheese and olives. They went together pretty well.
Gekkeikan also have a very good English website that covers their products aswell as a lot of information about making sake, types of sake and more. It can be found here.
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Try another from Gekkeikan
Petit Moon
Try another from Japan
Ebisan's Sake えびっさんの酒
Try another Sei-shu
Gozenshu Cup (御前酒)
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