Gotonada Shuzo

In their own words

Quoted as the company wrote it, in Japanese. Translating a house's account of itself would make the words ours rather than theirs.

蔵人によって原材料の甘藷栽培から焼酎造りがはじまる。

From the company's own site

How this house works

Counted from the bottles below, not written about the company.

Koji

white and black koji all appear across these bottles, which is usually where the difference between them starts.

Strength

Every one that publishes a strength is 25 percent. Most houses here spread their bottles across a range; this one does not.

Common to most of them

rich, sweet and bright, each recorded on at least half of these bottles.

What they distil

6 bottles here, every one of them imo (sweet potato).