Tokiwa Shochu

Wine information: The Akashi Sake Brewery stretches back to the end of the Tokugawa Period (1600-1867), when the company produced soy sauce and traded in rice. In 1918, the company started making fine sake. Over the years, Akashi Sake Brewery has expanded and modernized its sake-brewing activities, and now produces and sells a wide variety of products from premium sakes to varieties of distilled spirit shochu. Akashi-tai Tokiwa Shochu (show-choo) is a traditional spirit, distilled once, made from rice. It has a clean nose with hints of lime, peach and lychee. The palate is dry but soft and smooth with some tropical fruit flavours. Tokiwa Shochu makes an excellent cocktail ingredient but, in Japan, it is most commonly enjoyed as oyuwari (add 2 parts of hot water to 3 parts of Tokiwa), rokku (on the rocks) or chu-hai (add 2 parts of fruit juice such as grapefruit or lime cordial to 3 parts Tokiwa and top up with soda. Chu-hai is usually served as an aperitif and oyuwari or rukku as a digestif.

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