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Gekkeikan Plum Wine

Name: Gekkeikan Plum Wine 750ml
SKU: 103628
Price: 27.99 NZD
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Wine · 750ml · 13%

$27.99each

What it tastes like

Sweet, juicy plum flavour with a smooth texture, finishing fresh. A Japanese plum wine.

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Additional information

Wine
Style: 750ml
Size: 13% ABV
Alcohol: 0.8 per bottle
Standard drinks

The story of Gekkeikan Plum Wine

Gekkeikan Plum Wine is a sweet Japanese plum wine made by the Kyoto sake brewer in its home district of Fushimi. The fruit is ume plums from Wakayama, the prefecture that grows about 70 percent of Japan's ume.

Plum drinks are often made by steeping fruit in spirit with sugar, as with umeshu. This one is a wine in the proper sense. The plum juice is fermented, plum fruit is then soaked in the fermented wine, and the whole thing is matured for a long time before bottling.

The result is full, sweet plum nectar with a little apple and pear tartness for lift, and a surprisingly clean, light finish rather than a heavy, syrupy one.

It can be served chilled, at room temperature or gently warmed. It also suits a long drink stretched with cold or sparkling water as an aperitif, and it can go over ice cream or yoghurt for a quick dessert.