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ARAGOSHI Ginger

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ARAGOSHI · Umenoyado Brewery · Katsuragi, Nara · EST. 1893

ARAGOSHI Ginger

あらごしジンジャー

Japanese ginger is grated, refined for texture and blended with sake, joining vivid heat with the depth of a cloudy palate.

Ginger liqueur

CategoryGinger liqueur
OriginKatsuragi, Nara
BaseSake · Spirits
SignatureGrated ginger
ABV15%
Volume720 / 1800 ml

How it is made

Keeping the aroma and texture of Japanese ginger in the liqueur

Its character comes from the way the main ingredient meets the base spirit. Two choices are central to the result.

01

Grating Japanese ginger

Aroma, heat and physical texture are released together.

02

Refining the fibre, then adding sake

Coarse fibre is removed before the ginger is joined with sake’s savoury roundness.

The result

Fresh ginger, vivid heat and cloudy depth

Fresh ginger aroma opens into forceful heat across the palate and throat, rounded on the finish by sake savouriness.

Taste profile

Fresh ginger, vivid heat and cloudy depth

Fresh ginger, vivid heat and cloudy depth

Fresh ginger aroma opens into forceful heat across the palate and throat, rounded on the finish by sake savouriness.

Food affinities

Four directions shaped by forceful heat and sake savouriness

These pairings are not official combinations announced by the producer, but a reading of the aroma and flavor characteristics recorded on the product page. Unlike other products in the Aragoshi series, this one is defined by ginger’s heat and sake-derived savouriness rather than fruit sweetness, and the four directions below follow from that.

Forceful heat meeting ginger-based meat dishesGinger-fried pork (shogayaki), chicken stir-fried with ginger (gai pad khing), ginger-glazed pork. The drink’s heat lines up directly with dishes built around the same root.
Sake savouriness supporting warm broth-based dishesTom yum goong, consommé, simmered tofu hotpot (yudofu). The rounded savouriness supports the frame of a hot broth-based dish.
Vivid heat lightening richer dishesRoast duck with orange sauce, grilled eel (unagi kabayaki), Hainanese chicken rice with ginger sauce. The vivid heat lightens the finish of richer dishes.
A deeper sweetness in the aroma meeting warm, ginger-based sweetsGingerbread, ginger rice porridge, warm kuzu-ginger drink. The sweetness beneath the ginger aroma meets warm sweets built around the same root.

Ginger’s aroma is known to contain citrus-like compounds close to those in lemon, which is why it tends to share a direction with citrus fruit or hot broth-based dishes. Aragoshi Ginger’s vivid heat and sake-derived savouriness follow this same shared direction.

Pairing guide — Umeshu

The producer

Umenoyado Brewery in Katsuragi, Nara

Umenoyado Brewery is based in Katsuragi, Nara. For this liqueur, it brings ingredient selection and established production craft together in a distinctly Japanese expression.

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