Based on vintage sake aged for 17 years, this umeshu is made using only Nanko-ume plums from Minabe Town, Wakayama Prefecture. The plum aroma fills your entire nose, while the result is a plum liqueur with a soft sweet and sour taste that is unique to sake brewing.
Brewery: Kinmon Akita Shuzo, founded in 1939, Daisen City, Akita Prefecture
A brewery in Akita, Tohoku, that is covered in snow in winter. The brewery is known for expressing the flavor of rice through its sake, with aged sake at the top of its range. In 2009, it won the Champion Sake Award at the international sake contest IWC, and in 2011 it won the Gold Medal in the aged sake category, showing the brewery’s confidence in the quality of its aged sake.
