3S 2019 YANAGITA Mizunara

Yanagita is the oldest distillery in Miyakonojo. It was founded in 1902 and is located in the distant outskirts of Miyazaki. It had already moved the lines in 2005 by making agreements with local and committed producers for the cultivation of traditional barley (the "Miyazaki Hadaka" variety, which has almost disappeared from the region, for example) or for sweet potatoes of the "kogane sengan" variety, which it lets mature so that the flavours are exacerbated. But it was on 6 April 2009 that the distillery was transformed and restructured, and everything was put in place to make production more fluid.

3S Mizunara 2019 is a shochu aged in a Hokkaido quercus crispula oak cask (also known as "Mizunara"). It has an amber oak colour, brings sweetness, balance and the roundness of a whisky, with a sublime flavour of apple and banana. The barley variety is "Nijo Omugi" from Kyushu. The shochu moromi is brewed at low temperature, distilled under pressure and then aged in "Mizunara" oak casks. "Mizunara" oak imparts a taste to the shōchū that is totally different from French or American oak, and is highly regarded by distillate enthusiasts around the world as "Japanese-style wood."

3S, SUPER SHOCHU SPIRITS is a premium shochu brand working with a selection of distillers (including Yanagita Distillery), all of whom are true craftsmen of shochu production. Heirs to the knowledge and philosophy of a prestigious lineage before them, they are constantly developing and honing their skills to challenge the next generation. Together with Yanagita Distillery, 3S has bottled under its own brand, Mizunara Shochu 2019.