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.
創業は明治21年（1888年）。初代中村金助がこの地で中村酒造場を立ち上げ、鹿児島県霧島市にある国分平野と呼ばれる田園地帯で、今日までの長い間焼酎を造り続けてきました。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
- pear, grassy and light bodied, each recorded on at least half of these bottles.
- What they distil
- 3 bottles here, every one of them imo (sweet potato).