Kumejima's Kumesen

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.

弊社「久米島の久米仙」は、1949年の創業以来、久米島の恵まれた自然、豊かな気候風土に育まれ、先代からのつくりに対する「こだわり」を大切にしながら、皆様に愛される泡盛づくりに取り組んでいます。

From the company's own site

How this house works

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

Strength

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

Ageing

3 of these are aged.

Common to most of them

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

What they distil

4 bottles here, every one of them awamori.