Shochu that goes with strawberry
Berries
These are bottles to mix strawberry into. Some of them taste of it too, and where that is the reason a bottle is here, its line says so.
Fresh, muddled. Japanese strawberries in winter and spring are the ideal; any ripe strawberry works.
Best bottles for strawberry
The strongest matches in the catalogue, across every style. Everything below is the same ranking opened out by what the shochu is made from.
Strawberry and yogurt needs no explaining, and here the yogurt is the bottle
sweet potato, white peach, grape, berry
The bottle already smells of berry, and this puts more of it in the glass.
sweet potato, berry, soft, sweet
Grouped by what the shochu is made from, because that is the level the reasoning works at: what this does to an imo shochu is a fact about imo shochu rather than about one bottle. Within each style the strongest matches come first, and bottles we pour are marked rather than promoted. The scores are the same engine that recommends a mixer from a bottle, run the other way round, but the labels are not: a bottle page badges at most twelve strong matches and at most three per family, so that the twelve describe that bottle rather than the same citrus and soda every time. Here there is no cap, so a pairing badged strong on this page can read as a good match on the bottle's own.
Imo shochu
Strawberry and yogurt needs no explaining, and here the yogurt is the bottle
sweet potato, white peach, grape, berry
The bottle already smells of berry, and this puts more of it in the glass.
Mugi shochu
The bottle already smells of berry, and this puts more of it in the glass.