About the distillery: Nakano BC is located south of Osaka, in the heart of Wakayama Prefecture. It began by brewing soybeans, but today its scope of activity is much broader, extending from brewing sake to producing various alcoholic beverages such as Umeshu and shochu. It also produces plum fruit juice, a speciality of the prefecture. It is known for welcoming many visitors throughout the year to admire its magnificent garden. Their sake is carefully hand-crafted by highly-skilled toji and kurabito, using spring water from the Fujishiro mountain range. For Beninanko umeshu, the plums are picked in the morning in Minabe-cho, in Wakayama prefecture, and macerated the same day. The plums are carefully selected one by one, and the quantity macerated is 1.5 times greater than that of a classic umeshu.