Saga佐賀県
Barley grown, koji made and shochu distilled, all inside one prefecture.
9 bottles here · 3 producers · Mugi (barley)
Saga is a small producer with an unusual argument. Barley shochu where every ingredient comes from inside the prefecture, grown on farms near Imari and distilled in Arita, the porcelain town.
The Mizu range here is bottled at 35 percent rather than the usual 25. The barley one is made on black koji, where the Oita style uses white. Both choices are aimed at cocktails: more structure, more aroma, and enough alcohol to survive ice and a mixer. The other Saga bottles here are ordinary 25 percent bottlings.
Producers here
- Munemasa Shuzo4 bottles · Official site
- Saga Shuzo3 bottles · Official site
- Mitsutake2 bottles · Official site
A producer is linked only where a page on their own domain was read while researching one of their bottles. The rest have no link rather than a guessed one.
Others who distil here
The Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association lists these as distilling here. We hold no bottle from any of them, so there is nothing to recommend and no tasting note to give. What follows is a record that they exist, with their own site where the association publishes one.
- Amabuki Shuzo1688 · Official site
Brands: Amabuki
- Gochoda Shuzo1922 · Official site
Brands: Nipponichi
- Komatsu Shuzo1860 · Official site
Brands: Ochi (Kome）,
- Narutaki Shuzo1974 · Official site
Brands: Daikaratsu
- Tenzan Sake Brewery1875 · Official site
Brands: Shichida
- Yamato Shuzo1975 · Official site
Brands: Hishimusume