kokuto, sugar shochu/ Nishihira Distillery, Kagoshima (Naze City, Amami Island)
The experience:try neat, on the rocks, with soda water, or a little warm water!
Process: fermented in ceramic pots. The first fermentation is made with white koji rice with traditionally made kokuto sugar added to the main fermentation. The fermentation is distilled just once in a pot still before being matured at least 1 year in oak casks in the distillery warehouse.