What is Nanko?
Nanko-Ume, with its thin skin, small seed, and soft flesh, is the highest quality brand of Ume (Japanese apricot). Wakayama prefecture harvests 60% of the country’s Ume yield, and Minabe, a town in Wakayama surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the mountains of Kishu, is the biggest producer.
What can I do with umeshu plums?
Umeshu can be served at different temperatures; chilled or with ice, room temperature, or even hot in the winter.
- Umeshu On the Rocks (梅酒ロック): Put a big ice cube in a glass and pour the plum wine.
- Umeshu Sour (梅酒サワー): Mix the plum wine with ume-flavor shochu and soda water.
How do you drink Suntory umeshu?
For the purest drinking experience, chilled umeshu can be enjoyed straight up so that the flavors are not diluted by melting ice. The most common way to drink umeshu is on the rocks. The ice may be larger rocks or crushed, for an even more refreshing version.
How do you drink plum gekkeikan?
It is also delicious on the rocks or mixed with cold or carbonated water as an aperitif. You can also enjoy it as dessert wine by adding it to ice cream or yogurt.
What type of plum is ume?
Prunus mume
Although they are often referred to as plum, ume is actually an apricot, with a botanical name as Prunus mume. Known for its beautiful pink flowering, the plum blossom is a special time for the Japanese as it signals the end of winter and the arrival of spring.
How do you eat umeshu plums?
In Japan, the most common way to use ume plum is to pickle them with salt to make umeboshi (salted pickled plums). We usually serve umeboshi with rice, rice balls (onigiri) or as a delightful sour agent to pasta or salad dressing. We also extract the juice from ume and ferment it with sugar and salt.
Is plum wine good for your health?
Plum wine’s antioxidant levels have been identified as “moderate”, making it superior to cherry and raspberry wines but lesser than grape and blueberry wines in terms of antioxidants. Plum wine also features several essential minerals, including calcium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, iron and potassium.
Does umeshu need to be refrigerated?
Just like vodka or whisky. If it is 100% pure Umeshu, you can keep it in a shelf either before or after opened. If it is a plum wine (mixed Umeshu and white wine or Umeshu made from Nihonshu or other white wine.), you need to keep it in a refrigerator after opened.
Is gekkeikan a sake?
Gekkeikan Traditional is a classic junmai style sake. This is the real, authentic taste of Gekkeikan USA, inherited from Gekkeikan in Japan, and made with American water, American ingredients, and by both Japanese and American employees. Northern California original sake.
How should plum wine be served?
Enjoy plum wine neat, on the rocks, or in a simple highball. However, the sweet and sour plum liqueur works well as a replacement for vermouth and can thus also be used in cocktails.
What is Kishu Nanko ume-Genshu?
“Kishu Nanko Ume-Genshu” is made from tree-ripened Nanko-ume which are the most famous, high quality plums from Wakayama prefecture in Japan. This umeshu is then aged for over 3 years providing a mouth-filling rich sweetness.
Why choose Nanko-ume?
Nanko-ume, from Wakayama, is a premium variety with plump flesh and high acidity, making it particularly suitable for Umeshu production. Thanks to the decades of experience and expertise in ume cultivation shared by our Japanese farmers, at CHOYA we can be sure we are using only the highest quality ume fruit in the world.
What makes Umeshu a perfect balance between alcohol and fruit?
A perfect balance between ume extract and alcohol is achieved by aging the whole fruit, with the stone still inside. The delicious tang of Umeshu comes from citric acid in the fruit, and the refreshing flavour stimulates the appetite.
Does Choya Umeshu contain any artificial additives?
CHOYA does not use any artificial additives in any of our products, such as acidulants, flavourings, or colourings. As the leading producer of Umeshu, we are committed to the pursuit of unfailingly high quality and authenticity in all our products. It takes at least one year of aging to produce CHOYA Umeshu.