NISHI SHUZO - KAGOSHIMA PRÉFECTURE
Nishi Shuzo is installed for over a century and a half in the hills of Kagoshima, in the of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four Japanese main islands. They produce shochu from different ingredients, but their specialty is by far sweet potato based shochu, typical of Kagoshima region. Nishi Shuzo itself cultivates sweet potatoes use for the production of their shochus and works closely with local farmers to continually improve the quality of products. Nishi Shuzo has, over time, raised a formidable challenge, the challenge to produce shochu with remarkable taste qualities, very refined, using completely traditional methods. Nishi Shuzo shochus are now recognized all around Japan as a benchmark for quality and this success is exported internationally.
Shochu Hitotsubuno Mugi perfectly summarizes the savoir-faire of the prestigious Nishishuzo distillery, transposed on barley distillation. All the flavors of cereals are expressing. When Nishishuzo, specialized in the distillation of sweet potato, decides to elaborate a shochu of barley, one has necessarily a product apart <br...
The koji comes from Okinawa and stems from Awamori. We can find notes of awamori with Kiccho Houzan, powerful notes that makes us think of distilling technics from the south of Japan. It is a shochu that is rich and intense with a lovely smoky taste, vanilla, white beans and mushrooms. With this shochu version black Koji is used to make it<br...
The classic shochu from Nishishuzo brewery and, by far, the best seller of Houzan series. Deep aromas of sweet potato, a round mouth and a strong impact from the black koji used in its elaboration. A well-structured product that will definitely appeal to shochu fans ! The must-taste shochu from the Houzan series. An icon in Japan ! <br...
It is aged for 7 years in old sherry barrels. With 40% alcohol per volume, we have here a distilled product that is poweful and creamy at the same time; rounded, with dried fruits, prunes and abricots. We discover notes from the woods and caramel. A shochu that evokes the marc of Bourgogne. Tenshino Yuwaku is the non-reduced version of Tomino...
It gave the tempo to this new generation of Shochus where delicacy reigns over rusticity. It is made from yellow koji (which is also used in the making of sake), sweet patatoes and Koganesegan that is grown by local producers. Tomino Houzan is a reference of note in Japan 富乃宝山 芋焼酎...