Toji Junpei
Toji Junpei
Ingredients
Sweet Potato
Koji-White
ABV 25 Proof 50
Atmospheric Pressure 750 ml
Aged 1 Year
Flavor
Faint citrus aroma
Product
Ethereal and delicate, this is one of the few 100% hand-crafted shochu made today without benefit of modern machinery. Aromas are light and tropical, with subtle notes of candied yams and finishing with an appealing tingle of roasting spices. More fine grained and pretty than most sweet potato shochu.
About Kodama
One of Japan’s most iconoclastic shochu distillers, Junpei Kanemaru makes shochu the old fashioned way, eschewing modern machinery for hands on methods. His shochu is some of the very few fully hand crafted shochu being produced today. Coming from five generations of shochu makers, his family distillery was acquired when he was in school. Not to be deterred, Kanemaru found a defunct distillery dating back to the 19th century that still had a hard-to-get distilling license, and restarted the Kanemaru tradition of shochu making. A bit of a maverick, instead of depth and funk his sweet potato shochu is delicate and rewards the patient drinker with subtle tropical notes.
8-1-8 Obi Nichinan Miyazaki Japan MIYAZAKI 81-987-259229
http://www.kodamadistillery.co.jp/tojijunpei@diary.ocn.ne.jp
Toji Junpei I Miyazaki, Japan