鹿児島県·芋焼酎
Kimotsuki Shochu
Kimotsuki Town is well known for the Uchinoura Rocket Launch Site. Under the warm climate of the southern Osumi Peninsula, traditional sweet potato shochu making has continued. Satsuma sweet potato shochu uses sweet potatoes and rice koji as its primary ingredients, brewed with groundwater and slowly distilled. Since sweet potatoes, which arrived from Ryukyu during the Edo period, grew well even in the thin Shirasu soil of Satsuma, sweet potato shochu making has become deeply rooted in the landscape of Kagoshima. This is a drink where you can gently feel the rustic and warm sweetness of the sweet potatoes grown by the earth of Osumi. Whether on the rocks or with hot water, please slowly enjoy the scent of the southern soil that leads to space. On nights when the roar of a launch could be heard, this glass surely accompanied the moment.
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