Japanese Whisky reviews

Passover starts in less than 24 hours. As many of you know, in order to keep my whisky collection Kosher all year round, in the faint hope that one of my colleagues may one day join me for a dram, I…

They mean well, I have no doubt. For the last 8-10 years, as (non-whisky enthusiast) people have learned of my “hobby” as it pertains to whisky, they have come up with the perfect gift for me for any…

The Nobushi were elite warriors in feudal Japans that protected the villages and prefectures against warlords and their Samurai. In the bottle sits a blend, launched in 2017, composed of Japanse malt and…

First off, a big thanks to @cricklewood for this sample. I was also very lucky to have been gifted a bottle of the 12 around five years ago and thought it was unusual whisky, but still very good. My…

This is my second bottle of NFTB and I have to say I really enjoyed my first bottle. I picked this one up a couple of years back now and this has been open a good few months at least.Review is neat,…

I haven’t done a review in a while, and I try to get one in before Passover each year. Tomorrow I’ll be locking up the cabinet until after the holiday. I’ve done this every year so that someone who…

The new Japanese distillery Shizuoka – founded in 2016 – has no less than three stills from the lost legend Karuizawa. Unfortunately two of those are in such bad shape that they can only be used as…

Shizuoka is a new distillery founded in 2016. The owner is Gaia Flow, one of the bigger importers of distilled in Japan who – among others – import the Asta Morris releases. So it comes as no surprise…

Howaitoōku jōryūsho, aka White Oak Distillery, was built in Akashi in 1888. They only produced shochu and sake until 1919, when they got a licence to produce whisky. This was just for the local market…

It's been a few years since the boom yet the grip of anything Japanese whisky adjacent hasn't loosened. It can be hard to find any whisky from known Japanese distiller/producers and even harder to find…