• Prefecture: Nara

• Ingredients: Jasmine tea, brewing alcohol, sugar

• Style: Tea liqueur

• Food pairings: Dim sum, steamed fish, light desserts, fresh fruit

• Taste: Floral, fragrant, lightly bitter, elegant

• Alc.: 17%

Green tea leaves are carefully scented with natural jasmine flowers to make this additive-free liqueur, with no colourings, flavourings or preservatives. It has the bright, noble fragrance of jasmine tea with a gentle bitterness from the green tea, and bartenders use it as a cocktail base. Try it with milk, soda or fruit juice.

About the brewery

Kitaoka Honten is based in Yoshino, Nara, and dates its move into full-time sake brewing to 1868. Its Yatagarasu brand is named after the three-legged crow of Japanese myth that guided the first emperor through the Yoshino mountains, and its liqueurs are built around Yoshino and Nara produce such as shiso, peach, chestnut and jabara citrus.

香り高い天然ジャスミンの花で緑茶を丁寧に着香。着色料・香料・保存料を一切使用しない、体にやさしい無添加の自然派リキュールです。華やかさの中にほのかな苦味を感じる、高貴な香りが魅力。ジャスミン茶本来の上品な余韻を、グラスの中でお楽しみください。ミルク割りは勿論、炭酸やジュースとも相性の良いリキュールです。