Higa 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.

その思いを2代目の比嘉健が受け継ぎ、 居酒屋ブームがあった当時、泡盛は男性が飲むお酒というイメージが強かった時代に、 2代目の比嘉健が「女性や泡盛が苦手な方にも美味しく飲んでもらえる泡盛を作りたい」との思いから試行錯誤を重ね、オリジナルの蒸留機を完成させ、現在主力商品である「残波25度(ホワイト)」と「残波30度(ブラック)」が誕生しました。

From the company's own site

How this house works

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

Strength

24 to 43 percent. That is a wider spread than most houses here.

Ageing

6 of these are aged.

Common to most of them

aged and vanilla, each recorded on at least half of these bottles.

What they distil

6 bottles here, every one of them awamori.