also: ぬくめざけ
warm sake
Warmed sake, traditionally drunk on the 9th day of the 9th month of the lunar calendar to ward off illness. Now simply refers to heated sake.
On cold nights, I start to crave warm sake.
This izakaya serves warm sake in winter.
Standard kanji spelling for warmed sake.
Rare reading; Restricted this reading to 温め酒.
Variant kanji spelling; 暖 is also used for warming, but 温め酒 is more common.
Compound of 温め (warm) + 酒 (sake). The tradition of drinking warm sake on the 9th day of the 9th month is an old custom, but the word now simply means warmed sake.