Glenmorangie has traveled to Tokyo and released a new whisky – A Tale of Tokyo – which was partly matured in Japanese mizunara oak casks. Glenmorangie: A Tale of Tokyo whisky was partially matured in Japanese mizunara oak casks, bottled at 46% alcohol by volume [92 proof] and is said to offer notes of almond, […]
Japan-based Yoshino Spirits has released Umiki – a pine tree barrel-finished whisky that also uses water from the Pacific Ocean. Umiki – from the Japanese word for ocean [‘umi’] and the Japanes word for tree [‘ki’] – blends water from the Pacific Ocean with Japanese ocean-side malt whiskies and grain whiskies and then finishes the […]
After spending the past 32 years in Japan, Nikka From The Barrel blended whisky has finally plowed through the Pacific Ocean and emerged on American shores. Nikka From The Barrel Nikka is a compilation of more than 100 different malt and grain whiskies – all produced at Nikka’s Yoichi and Miyagikyo distilleries – that have […]
Jack Daniel’s visits Japan [and you don’t need translation if you speak bourbon]…
Spirits and beverage industry giant, Suntory, has released 15 new beer cans for their “The Premium Malt’s” – a German Pilsener style beer brewed in Osaka – that each feature a popular Shinkansen model bullet train that run on the nation’s extensive high-speed rail networks. Additionally, the cans will also feature well-known landscapes and tourist […]
Ten bottles of Glen Grant 50-Year-Old will be sold in Japan next month. Only 150 bottles of the single malt Scotch whisky were made available worldwide and 10 of those will be sold by Asahi Breweries. The whisky began the maturing process in a single sherry cask in October 1963 and was bottled in November […]
Summer is not normally considered to be whiskey’s best season but there is always room for growth and they found that room at the Soradoko rooftop whiskey garden in Kyoto, Japan. At the Soradoko, their specialties are whiskey highballs but this summer they have added the whiskey shave ice as a special summertime treat for […]
Founded in 1923, the Yamazaki distillery – named after the Yamazaki Valley, where the distillery lays – is the oldest distillery in Japan. And that, I’m afraid, is pretty much all the history I could find. I suppose that leaves us with little choice but to go straight for the tasting. Ah, life can be […]