Naraman Junmai Muroka bin hiire [1 Koku - 28]

From Fukushima Prefecture's Yumegokoro Shuzo, this "Dream Heart" sake is unfined and bottle pasteurised. Gohyakumangoku milled to 55%, SMV +4, acidity 1.4, Utsukushima Yume Yeast and 16.5% abv. The muroka-ness isn't particularly obvious visually, this sake having only a faint yellowish tinge, no more than one might see elsewhere. The nose is both reserved and pungent - a fair whack of medicinality, almost brett-like, shellac, boiled unshelled peanuts. Unusual, slightly forbidding nose. Tilting back for the first sip though, the nose comes together with a chocolate character, and this enters very sweet, soft and sensuous, but with hidden deviancies in the dark recesses, apothecaries and necromancers, along with lush green sundrenched meadows and babbling mountain streams. It's both clean and dirty. Soooo soft and smooth at room temperature, like a baby blanket. Beguiling sake, this is not to be trusted at all.