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Munemasa Shuzo

宗政酒造株式会社

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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.

1945年の原爆投下で消滅しており、詳細は不明だが、かつて先祖が営んでいた「幻の酒蔵」を復興させるため、宗政酒造は佐賀県西有田し(現有田町)で1985年に創業。

From the company's own site

How this house works

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

What they distil
4 bottles here across 2 bases: 3 mugi (barley) and 1 kome (rice).
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 35 percent. Most houses here spread their bottles across a range; this one does not.
Ageing
0 of these are aged, 1 of them in cask.
Common to most of them
banana, light bodied and bright, each recorded on at least half of these bottles.

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