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Satoyama craft gin
Now, the unique "craft gin" that is produced in small quantities focusing on materials and manufacturing methods is a global boom. Although there are common perceptions such as using Junipper Berry (Nono Nut), there is no clear definition, and its own gin is born in Nagano Prefecture. The sake brewery rooted in the area is also embarking on manufacturing.
Part 1 Nagano's rich natural landscape and margins
Part 2 craft gin where you can feel the forest with a pleasant scent
Nagano's rich landscape and margins of Nagano that spread from the scent -Fuyo Sake Brewery-
Fuyo Sake Brewery Cooperative
6th -generation breweries planning and development director Konori Yoda(Takanori)Mr. Miss.
One of the world's four major spirits (gin, vodka, tequila, lamb), familiar with cocktails such as "ginnick". In the EU, it is defined as "distilled sake derived from crops with 37.5 % or more alcohol content, which is the main scent of juniper berries". Masu.
Among them, the strong individuality created in a small distillery is called "craft gin", and it is characterized by the use of unusual botanicals, and is made with a focus on materials and manufacturing methods. Since there are no clear rules except to use juniperberry, in recent years, craft gin with unique aroma and flavor has been born in recent years, making it a big boom.
Its popularity has spread in Japan, and according to the Japanese Western Sake Brewery, the domestic shipment was 1.95 million liters in 2020, despite the corona evil. Exports, which were rarely unlikely to 2016, have rarely increased since 2017, and the export amount exceeded 3 billion yen in 2021, the highest ever. The presence of a new genre has increased as a new genre of the previous year, including a 74%increase.
One of the creators that attracts attention in Nagano is the Fuyo Sake Brewery Cooperative in Saku City. For many years, we have been working on sake and shochu, especially from the era of various crops instead of rice due to contraction policies, and consignment brewing of shochu using agricultural products that feel the region that is produced throughout the country. I have worked. In Nagano Prefecture, the mouse radish in Sakagi -cho and the chestnuts in Obuse -cho are well known as shochu made by the sake brewing.
Is it possible to make a brewing experience that has been facing these diverse materials, the flexibility of the times, and the developed and developed sake brewing that makes use of its own sake? The sixth -generation brewery, Konori Yoda, began the development of craft gin using Kasu -jin, which is produced by distilled and produces sake lees, a by -product of its own sake brewing.
"The advantage of craft gin is that all raw materials can be used. I think that Jin, whose market is hot worldwide, can use the know -how cultivated by the Company."
▲ Mr. Yoda, who was particular about the manufacturing method and made it with a Londondo Rizin type that distilled all materials in the base spirits.
I met Takake Miura, a leading craft gin in Japan, so I welcomed me as an advisor. With the cooperation of many friends, we proceeded with the project. Under the desire to put the consistent story of "making shochu while making shochu in a sake brewery in Saku City, Nagano Prefecture," the aim was to use local materials. To pursue the taste.
Therefore, it is said that the materials used were classified into two systems, and the materials that enable the taste as a gin were separated, and the materials that made Nagano feel the regional nature.
"I would like to pay tribute to the culture of Jin, loved around the world, and focus on Juniperberry, and I decided to turn on the materials that I felt that I could actually walk the area and express Nagano."
▲ Expressing nightlings even in visual images
Juniperberry is the leading role. It is said that as a supporting role that stands out, local materials such as chromoji, sansho, and bear bamboo found in a local forest were combined based on balance. In addition, we added compatibility apples to make use of Ginjo -derived flavors of Sake Shochu.
What Yoda wanted to express from these scents was the scenery of Nagano.
"Jin is said to be" scented sake ", but craft gin is" landscape sake ". How to express the area with a scent. More than 70 % of Nagano Prefecture is forest. Even in the same forest, there are many refreshing gins like day and night, but I can express the atmosphere of the night forest that makes you want to explore it. I thought it was interesting. "
▲ Japan -specific incense tree, Kuromoji, which impresses the woody scent of "YOHAKHU". Mr. Yoda heard from a business operator in Nozawa Onsen Village to manufacture shochu, and heard that there was a culture in the village that soaks Kuromoji into shochu, and was shocked by the goodness of its scent the moment he drank. One of the materials ""
Thus, hundreds of trial and error. Three years after the concept, it was born in 2020 in 2020 was Juniper Berry, Corander, Caldamom, Sage, Angelica Route, Cloved, apple, cromoji, Kumasa, and Aomi Sansho. It is a craft gin "YOHAKHU".
In the era of pity, I wanted to be a liquor that could cherish the heart in my life = margin. In addition, Mr. Miura, an advisor, said, "Jin must leave a space for the bartender to make it a unique cocktail = margin." The “involvement ( *)” of many people who cooperated was completed by margin. I put such thoughts in the product name.
( * Involved = coined word that means that there are margins and extensions that everyone wants to be involved.)
"One of the happy words from the customer is" The scenery of Nagano, born and raised at the moment of the seal, came to my eyes. " I was told that I was in the email, and I thought that my struggle was rewarded. "
▲ The Tokyo Whiskey & Spirits Competition (TWSC) 2022 won the highest award in the domestic gin category based on shochu. 500ml 6,600 yen
In addition, Yoda said that while he was entering the local mountains and forests many times by choosing the materials, he realized the local charm again, and his thoughts were sharpened.
"There are a lot of things that are gin in the scenery that I always watched casually, and my awareness of the community has changed. I returned, but as I got older, I found out that there was a lot of stimulus, and I made a gin further deepening my view and thinking. The life and thoughts so far are packed in the gin that could be completed because of this land. "
In the future, Yoda says that he wants to be a pioneer in craft gin in Nagano Prefecture. The craft gin, which adds the creativity of the natural environment and the challenge soul in Saku City, will expand the possibilities of Nagano's sake brewing.
Fuyo Sake Brewery Cooperative
Address: 5371-1 Hiraga, Saku City, Nagano Prefecture
phone:0267-62-0340
http://www.fuyou.org/
Nagano's rich landscape and margins of Nagano that spread from the scent -Fuyo Sake Brewery-
Kurosawa Sake Brewery Co., Ltd.
Mori Yohei Kurosawa
As many as 500,000 shiracaba forests spread over Yachiho Kogen in Sakuho -cho, at the foot of Kita -Yatsugatake. Kurosawa Sake Brewery Co., Ltd., the only sake brewery, is located at the top of the Chikuma River, which is also described as "Japan's best beauty", which makes use of the blessings of nature.
The sake brewery has been conducting unique initiatives that collect shirakaba sap to make specialty products in town, bottling and selling in the area since 2000. In 2009, Yohei Kurosawa, who has just become a forest, has begun barrels in 2009 to make more distinctive shochu with his older brother and current representative.
After that, a liquor with a shochu with the scent of barrels and a liquor with a shiracaba sap that brings out the sweetness of alcohol is commercialized. Under the Sake Tax Law, we obtained a license to manufacture spirits in 2019 for sale because it is a product of a new genre different from the classification of shochu.
▲ Shiracaba young leaves are collected several times a year. The sap takes 1,000 to 1,500 liters for about one to 10 days in the spring of spring, and is also used in bakery and confectionery shops in the town.
And in 2020, the corona's evil that I had never imagined was hit. Even in severe situations, I thought that I could take advantage of my experience and license to make some new challenges, the manufacturing of craft gin using town specialty products.
"I want to create a product that can express that I am making sake in a rich environment, using a sake brewery in the town as a sake brewery in Sakuho -cho. For that reason, it is not a material that can be ordered from other areas, but the land. I wanted to make it with
Yohei speaks like this. So, except for Juniper Berry, we used botanicals from the town, and worked on the production of shiracaba, as well as shiracaba sap, to express the scent of the forest.
In addition, because they want to express the scent with the fruits in the area, they also use plums, mulberry nuts, blueberries, and prunes used in the company in -house. I also used fragrant pepper leaves that can be collected in the early summer forest.
This is the birth of Kurosawa Shirakaba Jin. Distilled in each botanical and blended each extracted. Yohei says that the flavor changes not only due to the way of distillation but also with the balance and blend of blends, so that the depth and fun of making distilled liquor are also felt.
"The gin using shiracaba leaves and sap is the only one, but I feel that we have made an interesting gin like us by adding other materials to the materials. I received a gold prize in the Western Sake Division of "Tokyo Whiskey & Spirits Competition (TWSC) 2022", and I became confident that the method was not wrong. "
▲ It evolves every year and sells and sells vintage notation to make more unique gin. "Kurosawa Shirakaba Jin" (500ml 3,300 yen), "& SOBA GIN (720ml 2,750 yen)
Furthermore, based on "Kurosawa Shirakaba Jin", we have also developed "& Soba Gin (Sobazine)" based on "Kurosawa Shirakaba Jin" that feels like Nagano Prefecture. Hyoga and cedar leaves are also added as materials that match soba.
"We have the belief that we want to make sake that matches the meal, which can be stacked on a cup of cups rather than gorgeous type of sake. I want to work on making various sake. "
Using a land -specific material, a unique sake brewing that is not bound by the existing frame is also transmitted to the local charm.
Kurosawa Sake Brewery Co., Ltd.
Address: 1400 Hozumi, Sakuho -cho, Minamisaku -gun, Nagano
phone:0267-88-2002
https://kurosawa.biz/
* This article is information as of August 2022. Please note that the handled products are subject to change.
