Red shiso and golden ume plums in harmony - Choya Extra Shiso is the more complex sibling to classic umeshu, spiced with Japan's most aromatic herb.
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Choya Extra Shiso is a Japanese umeshu liqueur made from the ume fruit and flavoured with red shiso (perilla), bottled at 17% ABV.
The liqueur is produced by Choya Umeshu Co., Ltd. in Osaka, Japan, made exclusively from Nanko-ume from the Kishu region, aged 2 to 3 years. The addition of red shiso, an aromatic herb from the mint family, gives the liqueur a light tartness and spicy dimension that harmonises with the ume fruit's natural sweetness, while the shiso leaves also give the liqueur its characteristic, lightly reddish colour.
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The taste is sweet with a fine, balancing acidity, supported by intense stone fruit notes and a fresh, lightly bitter character from the shiso leaves, reminiscent of mint and aniseed. The aroma offers ripe plums, fine herbal spice and a hint of red berries.
Specifikationer
Name: Choya Extra Shiso
Producer: Choya Umeshu Co., Ltd.
Region/Country: Osaka, Japan
Type: Ume fruit liqueur (umeshu)
Main ingredients: Ume fruit (Nanko-ume), red shiso
ABV: 17%
Size: 70 cl
EAN no.: 4905846114859
Other: The bottle is bottled with ume fruit inside
Serving suggestion: Enjoy lightly chilled with soda water, neat, or in cocktails
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Plum · Shiso · Tart · Spiced
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Shiso, used in this liqueur, is an aromatic herb from the mint family that is as common in Japanese cooking as basil is in Italian - and here it gives the liqueur a unique, lightly minty undertone.
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