Beniotome
Kurume, Fukuoka
At the time of founding the Beniotome brewery about three hundred years ago in Tanushimaru (Fukuoka) and at the time when shochu was still considered a cheap alcoholic beverage, the founder, Haruno Hayashida, set a goal: she wanted to put all her passion and energy into producing premium alcohols that could be incorporated with Western spirits.
The result was a new type of spirit with a sesame base: sesame-shochu. The premium drop Beniotome Gold bears the red rose, the trademark of the Beniotome brewery, with pride.
In all of its stages of production, the Beniotome brewery only uses clear and mild water, which is sourced from between the rocks of the Mino Mountain range in the south of the Fukuoka Prefecture.
The distilled shochu are stored in earthenware vessels, steel tanks or French oak casks at the foot of the Mino Mountains and mature until they have acquired their characteristic pleasant and mild flavour. Beniotome allows its sesame shochu to mature over several years so that, depending on the type of maturation, the taste of cognac or brandy is perceptible in the final product.
