During my year in Japan I was able to partake in some really good umeshu. However, I have completely forgotten what kind it was since my stay. :smack: I am planning to have a dango cook-a-thon and we’d like to imbibe in some good plum wine.
My main requirement is that it’s the sweetest kind possible. My friend and I hate all other wine but I loved the sweet plum wine that I had in Japan. Since it was served to me, I can’t remember the name. I bought a bottle for my dad, but never looked at the name (I just asked the vendor if it was sweet and she said yes.) I recently had a glass at Benihana and fell in love with it all over again. I know that there are many levels of sweetness and dryness as I accidentally bought myself a very dry, typical wine-tasting umeshu a couple years back.
Anyway, if any umeshu fans could toss out a few names of the sweetest wines, or even the name of the one they serve at Benihana so that I know which ones to look for when I go to the store, I would greatly appreciate it.
Trusting the reviews from this page, it looks like you would probably want either Kokuto Umeshu or Kyunen Koshu Nigori Umeshu. Since the latter doesn’t seem to be sold in the US, that makes it an easy choice.
(If you want the other one, someone may be able to help you order some from Japan, of course.)
Thanks for the tip. I’ve never seen that bottle before, I wonder if the store will have it. Could be worth it to try a new one too, of course. I just can’t put too much pressure on my wallet.
FWIW, the stuff I drink has been yellow/honey colored.
And thispage was up a couple months ago and was going to be my go-to page. I remember it being really helpful and thinking “I’ll have to remember this page for the future!” Bah.
How about Choya Umeshu? Wifey recommends it for sweet-umeshu lovers. We took some to my family in California. Mom loved it! A certain type is yellow/honey colored.
Thanks for the suggestion. I bought the yellow bottle once but it tasted too much like wine, I had to toss it. I remember the bottle I bought in Kyoto was much larger and with pink frosted glass, but I’m sure it’s not sold around here. I’ll take a look on that site and I’ll probably call Benihana today to see if they’ll tell me the name of the kind they sell.
I remember drinking some that came from a carton that looks like the sararitoshita umeshu as pictured on the bottom of thispage. Hopefully my memory is right and that’s a good one.
I remember it being really helpful and thinking “I’ll have to remember this page for the future!” Bah.