Nigori sake catches the eye and the imagination with its white, cloudy hue. Most sake is clear because all the rice particles are filtered out, but nigori is coarsely filtered to allow some rice particles to remain. These sake lees give nigori its pale color and milky consistency (although the lees will separate in the bottle, so gently shake to mix together!). Nigori is a subcategory, so there is junmai nigori, junmai ginjo nigori and more.
