Plum wine with herby hintsif you like your wine to have a little extra character try choyas plum wine with extra shiso this plum wine or umeshu as it is known in japanese is made by taking whole ume plums soaking them in alcohol and sugar filtering the liquid out and adding a handful of the same ume plums used during the stewing process for an extra strong plum flavour extract from shiso or perilla leaves has then been added