Product Description
In 1744 Kawachiya Yohei founded a sake brewery. At the end of the Edo Period his descendant Kawachiya Ihei split from the main branch of the family and this marked the beginnings of the Heiwa Shuzo story. Heiwa Shuzō (Peace Brewery) has prewar roots but made a re-start after the war. Like a true Wakayama brewery, it produces both sake and plum sake. By the start of the Meiji Period, Heiwa Shuzo was one of the top class of sake producers by volume in Fushimi. Starting out as okeuri wholesalers of sake, Heiwa Shuzo are now purveyors of the highest rank of sake, Junmai Daiginjo. Heiwa Shuzo also looks to maintain these traditional sakebrewing techniques and ensure that they are used in the future. Recently the brewery has attracted nationwide attention because of the new junmaishu line of Kido and the luxurious plum sake and other fruit sake series called Tsuru-ume.
Suppai (which means ‘sour’) is a new plum sake from Wakayama Prefecture, the plum heartland of Japan. The Heiwa Shuzō brewery has its own orchards and sticks to the principle of slow-brew. For this exquisite and full-taste umeshu, three times more plums have been used than usual and the plums have been kept in the sake very long, giving extra plum taste and aroma and making it extra sour.
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