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Tantakatan Shiso Umeshu

Name: Tantakatan Shiso Umeshu 720ml
SKU: 145285
Price: 20.99 NZD
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Liqueur · Japan · 720ml

$20.99each

What it tastes like

Plum · sweet · tangy finish

Tantakatan Shiso Umeshu 720ml features Japanese plum wine infused with shiso leaf. This refreshing liqueur delivers sweet plum and herbal notes.

Stone fruit
Herbal

Additional information

Liqueur
Style: Japan
Origin: 720ml
Size

The story of Tantakatan Shiso Umeshu

Tan Taka Tan is a Hokkaido brand made by Godo Shusei, part of Japan's Oenon group. It began as a shiso shochu released in 1992, built around red shiso grown in Shiranuka, a town on Hokkaido's coast, and this umeshu uses that same shiso.

The name comes from an Ainu legend about a flatfish called Tan Taka, who goes up into the mountains to fetch a purple-leaved herb, which turns out to be shiso. The label shows the leaves alongside the plums.

Umeshu is a Japanese liqueur made by steeping unripe ume plums in alcohol with sugar. This bottle is made from green plums and shiso, and the label states that it uses 100 percent Japanese-grown plums with no added flavouring or colouring. The ruby red colour comes from the shiso. At 12 percent it is sweet and plummy, with a herbal shiso aroma running through it.

Umeshu is usually drunk cold. Pour it over ice, lengthen it with soda or tonic water, or make a simple sour. A slice of lemon keeps the sweetness in check.