Recently, we found out about a selection of matcha green tea-based alcoholic beverages from Kyoto-based tea company Itokyuemon, so the next time we found ourselves feeling thirsty, we decided to order one and taste-test it. If we’re being honest, we would have liked to have drunk every single product in the lineup, but even for us there’s a limit to how much our bosses will let us drink on the job, so we decided to go with just the most intriguing option: matcha white wine.

Called Yokan no Midori, the wine ships in a box that, like the beverage itself, mixes Eastern and Western sensibilities. One side is emblazoned with French text reading “Vin au thé vert,” meaning “Green Tea Wine,” while the other bears the Itokyuemon name rendered in Japanese calligraphy brush strokes.