Yuki No Bosha Junmai Yamahai "Old Cabin"

This is a yamahai for ginjo lovers (also, a ginjo for yamahai lovers)! The aroma is a festival of stonefruits: yellow nectarine, dried nectarine, apricot leather, banana, cherry. A nostalgic creamy tone, like kiwi strawberry nectar. Back notes of aromatic wildflower honey and whipped cream. On the palate, the texture and richness are mouth-filling, like biting into a cannoli filled with sweet ricotta with a lightly tart finish. This yamahai is so unique because the wild fermentation starter isn't giving it a gaminess, a meatiness or earthiness, but rather a fuller umami, fuller body, as well as sweet dairy notes.