Yamamoto Shuzo

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.

大正元年の創業以来、山元酒造は、百有余年にわたってこだわりの焼酎造りを行ってまいりました。

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: 2 imo (sweet potato) and 1 mugi (barley). 1 more sits outside the usual bases. Most houses here work one or two.

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 24 percent. 2 publish no strength. Most houses here spread their bottles across a range; this one does not.