KUROMOJI 500ml
Kuromoji and aburachan, aromatic trees of the Japanese mountains. Deep woody scent with a touch of sweetness.
With soda or tonic. 5–10ml per glass
WAIN99 / ALCOHOL-FREE
A proper glass, on the nights you are not drinking.
The days you are driving, the days with an early start, the days your body says no. Something for those, so you do not have to say "just tea". None of it is diluted juice.
Shinagawa, Tokyo
Shinagawa Water Distillery
They do not make liquor.
A small distillery by the canal in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Distilling spirits is about alcohol; this is about the scent of plants. There is no fermentation step, so alcohol is never created. It is not liquor with something taken out — it is the aroma of plants moved into water, a hydrosol. The water comes from Kyoto.
AOMOJI 500ml
Aomoji, a scarce plant from Kyushu and Okinawa. Lighter than kuromoji, opening closer to citrus.
With soda or tonic, or into a gimlet
MIZUNARA 500ml (trade only)
Mizunara from Kiso in Nagano — the oak the world knows as whisky cask wood. Not for diluting: float a little on top at the end.
Float 10ml over 90ml of soda. Stir once
TONIC SYRUP
Bitterness from quassia and bitter orange, the scent of kuromoji, the acidity of Meyer lemon. Made with the mixologist Shuzo Nagumo.
15ml syrup, 90ml soda. Add gin and it is a gin and tonic
The Ardennes, Belgium
Arduenna
A forest's name, put straight into the bottle.
Founded in 2021 by two old friends in the Ardennes. The name comes from the Latin Arduenna Silva and from Arduinna, the hunting goddess of that forest. Fir, mirabelle and elderflower carry the flavour. The alcohol-free bottle brings all three across unchanged.
Arduenna No Alcohol 500ml
Fir, mirabelle, elderflower. 0.0% alcohol.
With tonic, or as a mocktail base
U-Products, Japan
Craft flavour syrups
One bottle, six to eight glasses.
Concentrated syrups you top up with soda or milk. Craft cola, chai, herbs, cacao, tea. Each label carries a short story, and lined up they look like a shelf of books. No equipment needed.
otogi cola Yoiyami
A spiced craft cola
1:4 with soda
Cat and Cacao — Midnight Cacao Chai
Cacao layered over chai spices
1:4 with milk
Genius Party — Galileo
Citrus and herbs, sharp and clear
1:4 with soda
Hundred Flowers — Peony
A syrup built around flowers
With soda, or unsweetened tea
Star Specimen — Hoshikoyoi
A night-time cola with gold flecks drifting in it
1:4 with soda. Shake first
U Syrup — Ginger
The kind where the ginger heat comes through
1:4 with soda; hot water in winter
It really is just dilution
- Ice first, plenty of itToo little ice and it waters down. Fill to about seven tenths
- Pour the soda slowlyPour too fast and the aroma leaves with the bubbles
- Stir once onlyA second or third turn and the fizz is gone
- Start at 5mlThe hydrosols are concentrated. Adding is easy; taking away is not
- Use a wide-mouthed glassThe scent arrives before the drink. Those seconds count
- Chill the glassA warm glass kills the carbonation at once
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