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.
明治18年、蒸留釜から最初の一滴が滴って以来、 黒木本店はひたすら焼酎造りの道に精進してきました。How this house works
Counted from the bottles below, not written about the company.
- Strength
- 25 to 40 percent. That is a wider spread than most houses here.
- What they distil
- 4 bottles here across 2 bases: 2 mugi (barley) and 2 imo (sweet potato).
- Koji
- white and black koji all appear across these bottles, which is usually where the difference between them starts.
- Ageing
- 3 of these are aged, 1 of them in cask.
- Common to most of them
- aged, rich and smooth, each recorded on at least half of these bottles.
In this catalogue
Hyakunen No Kodoku '100 Years of Solitude' Barrel-Aged Barley ShochuMugi (barley) · MiyazakiStart with Mugicha (barley tea), CherryKiroku 'Memory' Sweet Potato ShochuImo (sweet potato) · MiyazakiStart with Soda water, GrapefruitNakanakaMugi (barley) · MiyazakiStart with Mugicha (barley tea), GrapefruitOuka 'Song of Praise' Sweet Potato ShochuImo (sweet potato) · MiyazakiStart with Jasmine tea, Lime