Shochu ASAGIRI NO HANA
Ref : NISTKT3
€31.00
Tax Included
Takata distillery favors quality over quantity, producing shochu in the most natural way possible, looking both to the distillery's 100+ year history and to the 100 years to come.
Using local rice grown in Hitoyoshi Kuma region by the distillery itself as its main ingredient, Takata is committed to making Kuma Shochu using local resources and age-old methods.
Key to Takata Shuzojo's success is the superb carnation yeast (dianthus superbus). Professor Hisayasu Nakata of Tokyo Agricultural University was the first to successfully isolate yeast from wild flowers.
Future Takata fifth generation belonged to same research laboratory, which led to the use of this new yeast in his family's shochu. This yeast was intended for use in sake, but controlling temperature, humidity and interactions with domestic yeasts proved difficult, and final product was not ready until 2003. It was released under the name Asagiri no Hana, after distillery's neighborhood.
It has a rich aroma of ginjo and flowers, and tastes like fresh sake. "Asagiri no Hana" is therefore a Kuma Geographic Identity shochu made with dianthus (superb carnation) flower yeast. Floral carnation language is "always love, pure love". Nose is floral, but not overpowering, with a scent of sweet rice, pear and melon, slightly sweet and warming. Light floral scent creates a sensation of freshness.
Aroma is rich, beautiful and pleasantly sweet. Palate is extremely rich and balanced, soft, with fresh, fruity, floral accents. Texture is unctuous.
- Enjoy with ice cubes or sparkling water. - Cut with spring water (3/5 shochu, 2/5 water)
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Data sheet
- Origin
- Kumamoto, Japan
- Capacity
- 720 ml net
- Weight
- 684 g net
- Packaging
- Glass bottle
- Ingredients
- Kumamoto hinohikari rice, malted rice (Yamadanishiki from Fukuoka)
- Volume of pure alcohol
- 25%
- Appearance
- crystalline
- Service
- whisky glass or shochu cup
- Category
- Honkaku (honkaku, also known as authentic shochu, is distilled only once and offers very rich aromas and taste notes)
- Our tip
- neat on ice or cut with spring water or warm to 35°C 40°C
- Ferments
- white koji, Nadeshiko yeast (superb carnation Dianthus Superbus)
- Distillation
- vacuum distillation for light, subtle flavors
- Maturation
- enamel tank
- Type
- short maturation (6 months)
TAKATA SHUZOMadame TAKATA:
"We've been making shochu for over 100 years and have never stopped challenging ourselves, while preserving traditions and meticulous techniques of Kuma Shochu's distillation methods.
Making it as natural as possible. This is the basis of our shochu production. For rice we use as raw material, we mainly use hinohikari produced in our local Hitoyoshi Kuma district, but we also use low-pesticide rice from plantations using ducks and Yamada-Nishiki rice that we grow ourselves.
In addition to high-quality groundwater, we also use crystal-clear water that gushes from rocks almost 1,000 metres above sea level.
All our shochu are made by hand, in traditional koji rooms, stone warehouses and clay vats that have been used for storage since company was founded. We are able to maintain limited production in which we specialize.
Clay vats are made from the region's stable soil and surrounding nature, as well as wind that blows from the mountains into the warehouse. This has enabled us to cultivate a distinctive shochu that can only be produced here.
In addition, we have preserved traditions and taken on new challenges, such as use of floral yeasts, and have been able to produce a distinctive shochu".
Reviews about this product
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Laurent D.
Published Aug 16, 2024 at 05:42 pm (Order date: Aug 02, 2024)Excellent. Very good value for money. To be discovered without delay. (Translated review)
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Takata distillery favors quality over quantity, producing shochu in the most natural way possible, looking both to the distillery's 100+ year history and to the 100 years to come.
Using local rice grown in Hitoyoshi Kuma region by the distillery itself as its main ingredient, Takata is committed to making Kuma Shochu using local resources and age-old methods.
Shochu ASAGIRI NO HANA
€31.00
Tax Included
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