【Hokusatsu Region】

Sweet potato shochu with an elegant sweetness, highlighting the master brewer's skill

This sweet potato shochu is a blend of high-quality Kogane Sengan and Beni Satsuma raw spirits.
It features a mellow aroma and a rich, smooth flavor.

Please enjoy to your heart's content the deep flavor of this exquisite sweet potato shochu, proudly crafted through years of experience and skill by the master brewer.

○From Kagoshima Shuzo Official Website
In Kagoshima, as in other parts of Japan, sake brewing has been practiced since ancient times, but under the warm climate, high-quality sake was difficult to produce.
Around 1500, the technique of distilling moromi to make shochu was introduced and became established in Satsuma.
In Edo, Akune Shochu commanded higher prices than Nada sake. (Edo Kaimono Dokuan'nai, 1824, Bunsei 7)
At Kagoshima Shuzo Kurose Toji Densho Gura, located in Akune with a view of the East China Sea, brewers diligently make shochu daily, benefiting from the sea breeze and the yeast that has long resided in the brewery.

◆Spec
Category: Sweet potato shochu
Ingredients: Sweet potato(Kogane Sengan, Beni Satsuma), Rice koji(Thai-grown rice)
Koji: White koji
Distillation: Atmospheric distillation
Alcohol content: 25%
Producer: Kagoshima Shuzo(Kagoshima Prefecture)

※Thai-grown rice is a long-grain, hard rice that yields stable, high-quality rice koji. For this reason, it is used as our "preferred rice for rice koji."