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Heiwa Shuzo Kid Tsuru-Ume, Ichigo

Sake from Japan
by Heiwa Shuzo Kid Tsuru-Ume
$49.99
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This is what happens when a Wakayama brewery famous for plum wine gets its hands on the local strawberries. Heiwa Shuzo, founded in 1928 just outside Kainan City and working with soft water that runs down from Koyasan, blends fresh Wakayama strawberry juice (60% of the bottle) with its Tsuru-Ume plum sake. What comes out is thick, deeply pink, and startlingly close to biting into a ripe berry, with enough tartness to keep it from turning into dessert syrup. The alcohol is low, so it pours easily. Serve it cold over ice, lengthen it with soda, stir it into black tea, or just pour it over vanilla ice cream and call it a night.

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More about Heiwa Shuzo Kid Tsuru-Ume

Heiwa Shuzo is best known for KID, its clean, approachable sake. The Wakayama brewery's Tsuru-Ume fruit liqueurs are just as worth knowing: low-alcohol, tart, refreshing drinks built on a sake base rather than neutral spirit and made with fruit grown nearby.

The brewery was founded in 1928 in Kainan, in Wakayama Prefecture, and is led by president Norimasa Yamamoto. Heiwa means 'peace.' Its brewing water is Koyasan Nansui, soft spring water that flows down from the temple mountain of Koyasan.

Wakayama is Japan's ume heartland, and the original Tsuru-Ume is an umeshu made with the prized local Nanko plum. The range branches out into other local fruit from there. There's yuzu, blended juice and skin. There's strawberry. And there's a summer orange made from natsumikan, amanatsu and lemon, pressed with the skins on for a pleasant bitter edge. Serve them cold, over ice or topped with soda.

Wine Details

  • Size

    750ml

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Dessert territory: vanilla ice cream, panna cotta, cheesecake, dark chocolate. Also a fine soda highball before dinner.

Tasting Profile

Sweet and tart, thick and berry-red. Ripe strawberry with a plum tang underneath from the umeshu base. Low in alcohol, dangerously easy.