Kusunohana Distillery is located in Saga City, Saga Prefecture, and was recently granted a spirits production license in 2020. They imported a still from the Netherlands, the birthplace of gin, and offer craft gin using ingredients from Saga. Unlike dry gins that use raw alcohol industrially produced in a continuous still as their base spirit, this "Still Damn Gin" uses only authentic pure rice shochu, which is made from pure rice ginjo sake, which is made by making sake koji, making sake mash, and squeezing it, and then further purified in a pot still, allowing the unique characteristics of the base spirit to emerge strongly along with the botanical flavor.
The "Stilldam Girl" series is a limited-edition premium series from Stilldam Gin, launched in December 2022, and this product is the 10th in the series. Its base spirit is junmai shochu, a pure rice ginjo made by pot distillation, and elderflower, a long-loved European staple known as the "people's medicine chest," is used as the key botanical. It's infused with 14 botanicals, distilled in a Dutch still, and diluted with natural water from the Seven Mountains of Karatsu. The sweet and refreshing aroma of elderflower will transport you to a spring flower field.
