Hitorimusume Sayaka Junmai [1 Koku - 46]

"One and only daughter" from Ibaraki Prefecture's Yamanaka Shuzo. Very little information available about this specific bottling - it isn't listed on the brewer's website, which likely means it is an export-only product, or possibly re-labeled. The nose has roasted rice and husk notes, with peanut shell and a little hint of melon. The palate is distinctive, dry bread, with a sharpish sour-dry and bitter finish. This is substantial, and I think could more than stand up to very strongly flavoured foods, like raw liver. Based on this profile, I'm guessing that the SMV is pretty high (the front label does say "dry"), and there are a couple of tokubetsu junmai at Yamanaka that might fit the profile... except that my bottle gives the alcohol percentage as 14 - 14.9%, and there simply isn't an appropriate equivalent in their portfolio. I just don't know.