Archive For The “Japanese Whisky” Category
Closing out our Japanese high end quartet is the 1981 Karuizawa, to be released sometime in the near future by Specialty Drinks through The Whisky Exchange. Pricing has yet to be announced, but it may be higher than the £375 of the October release, a speculation I’m making simply because tasting it cost a full…
Following yesterday’s post on the Joker, I’ll stay with Japanese whisky for a bit. As you know from reading my post on the first day of the Show, people were dashing out as fast as they were checking into show to get into the shop to stand on a queue inside the store to buy…
Japanese whisky is all the rage now, and if the whisky was distilled in a now closed distillery, you can just double the crazy. Add to that the yearly debate about the so called “Whisky of the Year”, and you got total madness. Of the two closed Japanese whisky distilleries, Karuizawa tends to steal the…
No introductions to Japanese whisky are really needed. Both Santory and Nikka produce world class whiskies, Karuizawa is a real frenzy whisky and the popularity of Japanese whisky is soaring. Nikka’s main and most widely known distillery is Yoichi, but wanting input from a different style of distillery, Nikka founded Miyagikyu to produce a mild,…