Jikuya Black
Jikuya Black
Ingredients
Sweet Potato
Koji-Black
Atmospheric pressure 750ml
ABV 25 Proof 50
Otsu-rui/Single
Aged 1.5 Years
Competition
Product
This sweet potato shochu is made from Kagoshima-harvested ingredients and begins its life fermenting in decades-old clay pots buried up to their shoulders in the distillery floor. Kogane Sengan sweet potatoes are added to the secondary fermentation, imparting distinct earthy and vegetal notes. After a single pass through a pot still, the spirit is rested for one and a half years in unglazed clay pots, which adds minerality and complexity.
Jikuya Black
I Kagoshima, Japan
About Jikuya Distillery
In Miyanojocho Hirakawa at the foot of Mount Shibi, a sacred mountain in North Satsuma, Gonsuke Jikuya was the first Jikuya to begin making shochu in 1910. One hundred years ago. Gonsuke’s unyielding focus was on “a powerful taste, even when mixed with hot water” and it has been called “Karakuchi no Ken” shochu ever since.
Hirakawa 1427, Satsuma-cho, Satsuma-gun, Kagoshima, 895-1807Japan
81-996-54-2507
info@jikuya-shuzo.co.jp