Tenpai was founded in 1898 in Fukuoka, and was the first distillery to make shochu with 100% barley– even the koji is inoculated on barley! The third and fourth-generation owners dedicated themselves to promoting shochu as one of the world’s great distilled liquors. A trip to Cognac inspired them to do the opposite of other shochu distillers: they started double-distilling and built the only in-house shochu pot still in the world. The results are peerless.

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