Takara Premium Plum Wine, California

Ripe plum, cherry blossom, and bright red-fruit notes open with rich aromatic sweetness. Takara Premium Plum Wine is a California white-wine beverage shaped by the tart, fragrant character associated with Japanese ume and finished in a generous, fruit-forward style. Its balance of sweet stone fruit and refreshing acidity reflects Takara’s long experience adapting Japanese beverage traditions for production in the United States.

Product Details:

• Style: Sweet plum-flavored white wine
• Base Wine: California white wine
• Fruit Character: Natural plum flavor modeled on Japanese ume
• ABV: 12%
• Production: Produced and bottled in Berkeley, California

Sensory Description:

The nose is expressive and sweetly perfumed, offering ripe plum, cherry blossom, and hints of red cherry. The palate has a smooth, sorbet-like texture, with juicy plum and cherry sweet-tart flavors carried by gentle acidity. A faint skin-like bitterness adds contrast to the sweetness, keeping the wine lively before a rich, fruit-led finish.

Winemaker’s Background:

Takara Sake USA was established in Berkeley in 1983 as part of the wider Takara Group, whose beverage history in Japan dates to the nineteenth century. The California operation produces sake, flavored sake, plum wine, mirin, and related beverages while combining Japanese fermentation experience with modern American production facilities. Takara Plum interprets the tradition of ume-shu through a California white-wine base and natural plum character. Its current label redesign is cosmetic only and does not indicate a change to the product inside the bottle.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve well chilled at 6 to 8 degrees Celsius in a small white-wine glass, dessert-wine glass, or over ice in a rocks glass. Enjoy as an aperitif, a palate cleanser, or alongside fresh cherries, fruit tarts, almond pastries, vanilla ice cream, sorbet, or lightly salted cheeses. It may also be lengthened with sparkling water for a lighter plum spritz.