A liqueur made from Satsuma mandarins grown in Ehime prefecture, slowly brewed with authentic rice shochu. It has a rich, luxurious taste, with a perfect balance of sweetness and acidity. With no additives, acidifiers, colourings, flavourings or sweeteners, this liqueur lets you enjoy the flavour of the natural ingredients themselves, and is the perfect accompaniment to salads, cheese, fried foods or pasta.
Good to know: unlike sake, which is a brewed spirit, shochu is a distilled spirit whose ingredients are not fixed. It is generally made from rice, buckwheat or sweet potato, but can also be made from barley or chestnuts, for example. It is a strong alcohol (between 20° and 45°), which is why it is used to make umeshu. Not only does the high alcohol content help to extract the flavour of the plums, but Japanese alcohol law states that it is illegal to make fruit spirits from drinks of less than 20°, even at home!
Drink as is, or on the rocks.
About Shusen Eiko
For over 120 years, Shusen Eiko has been producing spirits in Ehime, on the island of Shikoku, with local, national and now international success, winning numerous gold and silver medals in various competitions. The company has a very special brewery: all the storage space is a huge cold room, so all the production can be kept at a controlled temperature. The sake is kept at sub-zero temperatures to ensure optimum maturation.
