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Red Clay Bamboo
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Red Clay Bamboo

A Japanese shochu-based riff on the classic Bamboo, this drink is designed with flavors that complement but don’t overpower the spirit.

  • story: Punch Staff
  • photo: Daniel Schwartz
The Shochu Cocktail Experience
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The Shochu Cocktail Experience

Japan’s native distilled spirit is finding its way into bars across the United States. Here’s everything you need to know to try it yourself.

  • story: Punch Staff
  • photo: Daniel Schwartz
Satsuma Coffee Cocktail
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Satsuma Coffee

A warm, aromatic mug of sweet potato shochu and coffee.

  • story: Tatiana Bautista
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Ta Ke Shochu Martini
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Ta-Ke Martini

Sweet potato shochu gives backbone to this Bamboo riff.

  • story: Tatiana Bautista
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Kagoshima Brown Sugar Cocktail
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Brown Sugar and Beyond

Black tea meets brown sugar shochu.

  • story: Tatiana Bautista
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Aunty Old-Fashioned
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Aunty Old-Fashioned

A sweet and savory take on sweet potato shochu.

  • story: Tatiana Bautista
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Kagoshima Shochu Cocktails
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Want to Understand Shochu? It Starts with Kagoshima.

The birthplace of shochu is famed for its ancestral expressions of the spirit—imo and kokuto—made exclusively from sweet potato and brown sugar. Here’s how to use them in cocktails.

  • story: Punch Staff
  • photos: Lizzie Munro
JSS Feature Shochu Cocktails
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Japanese Shochu Is Coming for Your Cocktail

The versatile spirit is at home in just about any format. Three bartenders share their recipes for a shochu-laced Espresso Martini, a frothy fizz and a tea-topped highball.

  • story: Punch Staff
  • photos: Lizzie Munro
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Veintiuno

A tangy, saline bite reminiscent of a Margarita—without agave.

  • story: Tatiana Bautista
  • photo: Shannon Sturgis
Katana Kitten NYC
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A New Kind of Japanese-Style Bar

At Katana Kitten, Masa Urushido has done away with the quiet formality of the Japanese-style cocktail bar.

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photos: Lizzie Munro
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The Wines of Right Now

We spoke to 150 sommeliers and retailers around the country to assemble a list of the 15 producers who represent the wine zeitgeist right now.

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