The 13th head of the Kuge family, Tsunezo Kuge (1877-1954, pictured), renamed our flagship sake Ichinoide, he incorporated Kuge Honten, and under his leadership the family business really began to flo...
Our flagship barley shochu - Tsunezo (photo: 900 ml, 20% Vol) is produced using a vacuum distillation method, reducing the amount of filtering required. It has a subtle barley aroma with a clean, fre...
Our barley shochu - Tsunezo Breeze (photo: 900ml) is created using 100% Toyonohoshi, a new barley cultivar being cultivated right here in Oita Prefecture, that is great for producing fantastic shochu....
Our barley shochu - Tsunezo Breeze 40 (photo: 700ml) is created using 100% Toyonohoshi, a new barley cultivar being cultivated right here in Oita Prefecture, that is great for producing fantastic sho...
Our potato shochu - Tsunezo (photo: 720ml) is made using 100% Kanta-Kun, a type of Beniharuka sweet potato with a high sugar content. They are cultivated in Usuki City, Oita Prefecture. The sweetnes...
Our potato shochu - Kanta-Kun (photo: 900ml) is made using 100% Kanta-Kun, a type of Beniharuka sweet potato with a high sugar content. They are cultivated in Usuki City, Oita Prefecture. The sweetne...
Our barley shochu - Hogehoppo (photo: 720ml) is made using 100% naked barley, cultivated in Usuki City, Oita Prefecture. The different qualities of the naked barley are brought out by the atmospheric...
Oita Yeast was developed by the Oita Industrial Research Institute using the prefecturefs kabosu juice as a separation source.In the brewing test, the Oita Yeast evaluation stated that the alcohol yie...
Authentic shochu is typically distilled under normal pressure or reduced pressure.In recent years, there are also products that are distilled under a slight vacuum, which falls between these two metho...