I thought you might be curious to know that Wann, the Japanese izakaya franchise in Belltown, uses a bottled oolong for the cocktail — specifically one from large-scale Japanese bottled tea brewer Ito En. It’s available at Whole Foods under the brand name “Teas Tea” or at Uwajimaya as “Ito En Golden Oolong.” (And while most tea snobs, including myself, would recoil on principle at the idea of bottled anything — I’m normally partial to high-quality oolongs from Floating Leaves in Ballard — Ito En makes a surprisingly distinct and flavorful bottled product.)

Anyway, Wann uses the same brand of shochu for their mixed drinks as Kaname does; it’s likely that they use the same tea as well. If you happen to discover the mixing proportions somehow, please post them!!