Matsumoto Junmai

I've long been enamoured of Matsumoto Shuzo's old wooden buildings, with it's red-bricked octogonal chimney, located at the boundary of Kyoto's Fushimi district, but had never tried their sake before picking up a bottle on my most recent visit.

Oddly, this does not appear on their website, and does not belong to either of their Momo no Shizuku or Hinodezakari brands, but the proprietor of the store assured me that it was indeed Matsumoto sake. And, a sake that tasted more like bananas I have yet to come across. Soft and round without being particularly sweet, a pretty dancing partner for sure, but bananas.