"If you can make a good cocktail with potato shochu, you've got yourself a good cocktail. "In order to popularize shochu, there needs to be a cocktail," Kaiho says. He sees shochu following a path similar to pisco, the national spirit of Peru, in that it's easily subbed in cocktails for spirits like vodka or gin - except that it offers the added benefit of being low-proof, a slower-paced option that's trending around the country. One reason shochu hasn't yet found popular footing in the U.S., Kaiho believes, is because there's no definitive shochu-based cocktail. Whilst the Republic of Ireland lies 6th in the world for beer consumption per capita, it ranks 4th in the consumption of alcohol, with 11.7 litres per head in 2011. Exports were 3.5m hectolitres in 1998 and fell to 2.4m in 2002. "Adding matcha to it was really the first thing that came to mind, because I wanted something earthy to match its complex flavors." Shochu can be challenging to use in cocktails because of its delicate, low-proof nature, but at Jettison, in West Dallas, bar manager George Kaiho's beautifully blends earthy sweet potato-based shochu with mezcal and vegetal Green Chartreuse for his Earth Wind and Fire. In 1998, Ireland produced approximately 8.5m hectolitres of beer per year this rose to 8.7m in 2002. "It's a wonderful liquor that unfortunately is still a little hard to find in Dallas," Rausch says. This being America, its rising availability means bartenders are exploring its use in cocktails: In Uptown, Bowen House features the spirit in its delicious Do, Re, Miso, served in a small bowl, while Oak Lawn's Izakaya RoMan (at which Kaiho consulted) spins several shochu variations of classics like the Negroni and Martini.Īt since-closed Yayoi in Plano, in addition to a number of traditional chu-hai combinations, bartender Lyndsy Rausch blended shochu with matcha, yuzu and soda in her Meet Your Matcha cocktail as well as in a wasabi-spiced Bloody Mary.
In addition to Jettison, you'll find shochu at Niwa Japanese BBQ in Deep Ellum, Plano's Yama Izakaya and Irving's Mr. Shochu's low-proof nature, he says, means more of them can be sampled in a single sitting - typically as a mix of shochu and soda (or juice, or occasionally iced tea) called a chu-hai, basically a shochu highball (hence the abbreviated name).īesides rice and sweet potato, the spirit is made from things like soba, sugarcane and, most commonly, roasted barley, giving the category a broad range of flavor profiles, from mild to aggressively earthy. "I enjoy the nuance and complexity," says Justin Holt, sous chef at Lucia in Bishop Arts, who plans to feature shochu at his upcoming restaurant, Salaryman. In Uptown, Bowen House's Do, Re, Miso cocktail, served in a small bowl, supplemented rice-based shochu with fennel flavor and white miso paste. Robert Mondavi ( Constellation Brands) 10.Shochu's single distillation keeps its alcohol level between 20 and 25 percent, not as strong as most spirits but still heftier than wine, making it a great accompaniment to yakitori and other small dishes over convivial, leisurely dinners at Japanese izakayas. Sutter Home ( Trinchero Family Estates) 10.2m casesĬhangyu ( Yantai Changyu Pioneer Wines) 10.7m casesĬasillero Del Diablo ( Concha y Toro) 5.8m The Top 10 Wine Brands worldwide by estimated volumes in 2019 Barefoot ( E&J Gallo) 22.5m cases Source: American Association of Wine Economists Menage a Trois ( Trinchero Family Estates) 0.9% Kendall-Jackson ( Jackson Family Wines) 1.1% Sutter Home ( Trinchero Family Estates) 2.9% The Top 10 Wine Brands in the US by volume share in 2019 Barefoot ( E&J Gallo) 6.7% share of market The Top 10 Wine Suppliers in the US in 2019 by value share Constellation Brands 16.2%
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