Awayuki Strawberry Flavored Gin

Awayuki means "light snowfall" in Japanese, and it's the name of a strawberry — a rare white-pink variety so strictly managed that only one farm per market is licensed to grow it. This gin is built around three of them: Awayuki, White Pearl, and Kotoka strawberries, all hand-grown and harvested at peak ripeness in Nara Prefecture, the birthplace of sake. The maker is Umenoyado Brewery in Katsuragi City, a five-generation sake house that has won Japan's national new sake competition ten times and is now led by Kayo Yoshida, the first woman to own a brewery in Nara. The gin is distilled from 100% grain and infused with a large quantity of real fruit — including berries too imperfect-looking to sell — bottled at 44% ABV (88 proof), a higher strength than most flavored gins, which keeps the juniper honest. Expect a ruby-tinted aroma of fresh, aromatic strawberry with a floral, spring-like lift, opening into a palate where the fruit shines cleanly without overwhelming the classic earthy, juniper-forward gin base, finishing smooth and gently sweet. Blackwell's tasters praised how the strawberry and juniper interplay rather than compete, and called it good value against most premium flavored gins. Sip it over one large cube to appreciate the aroma, or build a strawberry spritz, a fruit-forward G&T, or a Clover Club with real Japanese berries. Spring in Nara, bottled.

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