Plum Wine (Choya Umeshu) Special Edition

Have you ever tried Plum Wine? I got a set of Japanese plum wine from my friend recently. It is Choya Plum Wine. There are three flavors which are Extra Year, Royal Honey and Extra Shiso. Plum Wine is also called Umeshu （梅酒）in Japan. Umeshu is a Japanese liqueur made by steeping fresh Japanese plum (ume) in shochu and sugar.  The sweet and sour flavors with fruity aroma are very appealing and you can make many kinds of drinks with it!  Personally, I have drunk a lot of Umeshu before when I was working at a Japanese Izakaya style restaurant before. I usually drank the original flavor of Choya Umeshu, so I feel so excited to try the special edition of Umeshu.

Basically, Umeshu can be served at different temperatures; chilled or with ice, room temperature, or even hot in the winter.

Umeshu On the Rocks (梅酒ロック): Put a big ice cube in a glass and pour the plum wine.
Umeshu Sour (梅酒サワー): Mix the plum wine with ume-flavor shochu and soda water.
Umeshu Tonic (梅酒トニック) Mix 30 ml plum wine with 90 ml tonic water.
Umeshu Soda (梅酒ソーダ割り): Mix one part plum wine with one part carbonated water.
Umeshu Oyuwari (梅酒お湯割り): Mix one part plum wine with one part warm water.
Umeshu Ochawari (梅酒お茶割り): Mixed one part plum wine with one part hot/cold black or green tea.

You can get the original version of Choya Umeshu at Don Quijote or Nijiya Supermarket : )