Ingredients

25 ml fresh lime juice
50 ml Namida Wasabi Spirit
20 ml rose syrup
4 pickled ginger pieces

Method

1. Muddle the pickled ginger pieces and Namida Wasabi Spirit in a mixing glass.
2. Add the other ingredients and ice.
3. Shake well.
4. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Namida – Japanese for Tears

40% alc./vol.
www.wasabispirit.com
Producer: Edward Snell & Co. Ltd, Cape Town, South Africa.

Named after the Japanese word for tears, Namida is flavoured with pure Wasabia japonica rhizome, not the coloured horseradish-derived fake wasabi commonly found in the west. The bottles are screen printed with the profile of Wasabia japonica leaves and carry both the batch and bottle number.

Namida Wasabi is the result of a family’s obsession with growing and marketing Wasabi first aroused by a television documentary on wasabi screened in New Zealand in 1989. This inspired Michel Van Mellaerts and his wife Jenny to start growing wasabi and after a couple of years of experimentation they perfected their organic hydroponic growing system.

It is the opera-singing son of this wasabi-cultivating couple, Julien, who we have to thank for creating this wasabi spirit in 1996. Namida is made in small batches of 6,000 litres by triple distilling grain neutral alcohol with wasabi rhizomes grown in New Zealand by Julien’s parents. Distillation now takes place in South Africa, perhaps as a direct result of the mustard gas released by the wasabi blowing up the still of the first Kiwi distiller.

Appearance: (batch 002, bot No. 1071) Clear, pale wasabi green.
Aroma: Formidable, clean, wasabi, horseradish nose.
Taste: The promised wasabi-flavoured palate also has the rhizome’s heat, though not overpoweringly so.
Aftertaste: Long, not entirely pleasant finish with lingering bitter, rooty flavours. One for mixing in Bloody Marys rather that sipping.
diffordsguide rating: 4/5

Original article can be found at http://www.diffordsguide.com/class-magazine/read-online/en/2012-01-24/page-1/spirited-reviews

Ingredients

3 oz. Tomato Juice
1 1/2 oz. Namida Wasabi Spirit
1 dash(es) Soy Sauce
1 squirt(s) Lime Juice
1 Lime slice

Method

Mix in a cocktail glass and garnish with celery sticks and a lime wheel.

A perfect combination of heat and zest, this cocktail is sure to tantalize your taste buds. And with its all-natural ingredients, low-calorie count, and refined flavour profile, the Bloody Geisha is the perfect cocktail to satisfy your zest for flavour.

Ingredients

Ice cold Namida Wasabi Spirit
Ice
Vermouth
One olive

Method

Ice cold Namida Wasabi Spirit
Shaken with ice and a bit of Vermouth
Pour into a Martini glass and serve with two cocktail sticks through one olive

Ingredients

A couple of limes
Sugar
Crushed ice
Namida Wasabi Spirit
A wheel of lime

Method

Muddle a couple of limes with sugar
Fill short glass with crushed ice
Fill to the top with Namida Wasabi Spirit
Garnish with a wheel of lime

Be sure to have two

Ingredients

Ice cold Namida Wasabi Spirit
molecular gastronomy flavour balls, filled with lime and sugar

Method

Fill a martini glass with ice cold Namida Wasabi Spirit
Add molecular gastronomy flavour balls, filled with lime and sugar
Best served listening to ‘TOSCA’

Ingredients

Generous amount of Namida Wasabi Spirit
Less generous amount of Triple Sec
A similar splash of Midori
Pineapple juice
green food colouring
a cherry

Method

Add to a generous amount of Namida Wasabi Spirit, a less generous amount of Triple Sec and a similar splash of Midori.
Add pineapple juice, green food colouring, shake together and serve in a martini glass
Garnish with a cherry

Ingredients

Generous amount of Namida Wasabi Spirit
Worchester sauce
Tabasco
salt and pepper
ice
Spiced Tomato Juice
New Zealand Pinot Noir
Garnish with two short celery sticks and a wedge of lime

Method

Pour a generous amount of Namida Wasabi Spirit into a whisky glass
Add Worchester sauce, Tabasco , salt and pepper
Add ice
Top it up with Spiced Tomato Juice
Finish it off with a thin layer of New Zealand Pinot Noir
Garnish with two short celery sticks and a wedge of lime

Ingredients

Generous amount of Namida Wasabi Spirit
Chocolate Syrup
Chocolate Liquer
Ice
Grated Dark Chocolate
Orange Peel

Method

Combine Namida wasabi Spirit with chocolate syrup and chocolate liqueur
Shake together with ice
Serve in a martini glass
Garnish with grated dark chocolate and two twists of orange peel

Ingredients

Hefty dose of Namida Wasabi Spirit
Add Elderflower liqueur or syrup
Top up with Ice and Soda

Method

Serve in large jug full of ice, cucumber and strawberries.

Enjoy with your friends!