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.
佐賀藩主となった鍋島家はその米を使い、1688年（元禄元年）、古賀六右衛門に酒造りを命じます。How this house works
Counted from the bottles below, not written about the company.
- What they distil
- 3 bottles here across 1 base: 2 mugi (barley). 1 more sits outside the usual bases.
- Strength
- Every one that publishes a strength is 25 percent. Most houses here spread their bottles across a range; this one does not.
- Ageing
- 2 of these are aged, 1 of them in cask.
- Common to most of them
- smooth, rich and aged, each recorded on at least half of these bottles.