Tasting Notes

Nose: Elegant aromas of pineapple, apple, tropical fruit and sweet lemon custard.
Palate: Medium, not too sweet and not too dry. Flavours of sweet melon, pineapple, pear and white peach. Smooth, creamy texture with a soft round finish.
Polish: 35%
SMV: ±0
Acidity: 1.1

History of Kamitaka – Eigashima Shuzo

Eigashima Shuzo (known as White Oak Distillery in Japan) is one of Japan’s oldest family-run distilleries with centuries of beverage making experience. Situated just a stone throw’s away from Osaka Bay in the fishing village of Akashi, the distillery enjoys a warm, coastal climate all year round, seeing the highest average temperatures and lowest annual rainfall out of all the Japanese distilleries. The operation is now run by its ninth generation. Sake making started in the early Edo period in Nishinada area. It was Hachibei Urabe, the second generation of noble Urabe family, who started sake. In Meiji era, the younger brother Hyokichi of the fifth generation Hachiemon Urabe, operated his own sake business independently and expanded. In 1888 he established Eigashima Shuzo Co., Ltd. with capital of 30,000 yen. The trademark was “Yamato Damashii”, which means “the soul of Japan”, and later registered “Yuri Masamune” in 1894 and “Kamitaka” in 1895. Starting as a sake brewery during the Edo period, Eigashima Distillery has since expanded it’s repertoire to include shochu, whisky, wine, umeshu (plum wine), and mirin.

For more information visit: www.ei-sake.jp/en

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