Ota Shuzo
Hanzo's umeshu — Minabe plums hand-steeped in the G7 summit toast sake's genshu.
Ota Shuzo, founded in 1892 in Iga, brews Hanzo, the sake served for the toast at the Ise-Shima Summit. Since 2007 it has steeped Nanko plums from Minabe by hand in undiluted sake brewed from Mie rice and Suzuka Mountains subsoil water — aged three years for its umeshu.