SAKE MAP
Kyushu & Okinawa / Types: Sake · Shochu (barley)
Six drinks from Nagasaki, each with a snack that suits it and a short story behind the bottle.
Rokujuyoshu
A Hasami bottle whose name carries "the sixty-odd provinces," Japan of old. Brewed in a town of pottery, its hallmark is a crisp, clear taste. Savored from Hasami-ware, the mood is all the finer. A sake whose spirit, "reach the whole country," you feel in its name.
Pairs with：Champon (Nagasaki noodle soup) / Karasumi (dried mullet roe)
Yokoyama
A bottle of a brewery taking on sake-making on Iki, the island of barley shochu. Its gorgeous, fresh taste, like sparkling sake, is popular. It's known as a notable label symbolizing the island's new challenge. A bottle where you can feel the wind of an island in the Genkai Sea.
Pairs with：Hirasu (amberjack) / Karasumi (dried mullet roe)
Fukutsuru
A bottle carefully brewed by a small brewery on the Shimabara Peninsula. Its firmly savory taste has long stood by the local table. It has an auspicious name, "the crane that calls fortune." A sake where you can feel the blessing of Unzen's spring water.
Pairs with：Champon (Nagasaki noodle soup) / Sara-udon (crispy fried noodles)
Ikinoshima
A royal-road barley shochu representing Iki, the birthplace of barley shochu. Its distinctive method using rice koji yields a mellow, full taste. It's a venerable bottle recognized internationally as a production region. Savor the blessing of an island in the Genkai Sea, slowly.
Pairs with：Hirasu (amberjack) / Goto udon (island wheat noodles)
Chingu
A barley shochu with an endearing name meaning "close friend" in the Iki dialect. Crisp and easy to drink, it's perfect for a first barley shochu, too. An approachable bottle fitting to share with a friend. A shochu whose name conveys the island's warm human touch.
Pairs with：Champon (Nagasaki noodle soup) / Sara-udon (crispy fried noodles)
Amanogawa
A mellow barley shochu long loved on Iki. Its soft, sweet aroma, unique to rice-koji brewing, is its hallmark. Its poetic name, evoking the Milky Way in the night sky, is a charm, too. Gaze at the island's starry sky and savor it slowly.
Pairs with：Karasumi (dried mullet roe) / Goto udon (island wheat noodles)