Japanese Whisky reviews

This NAS by the great Yamazaki distillery is full of jam notes but it doesn't make Yamazaki feel so great anymore. Mediocre whisky, I'll use the animation film called Flushed Away as the reference.In the…

Nikka Taketsuru 17 yo is a blended malt. The reviewed sample is thanks to @Robert99Nose: very strong flavours from both malt and from wood, mostly middle-pitched, but also with a few high and low range…

Hakushu distillery is located in the Southern Japanese Alps and is owned by Beam Suntory. The distillery started operating in 1973 on the 50th anniversary of the start of construction of its sister…

In 2014, Ichiro Akuto released the final bottlings of the Hanyu Card series, both called Joker: one with a colour label, the other with a monochrome one. This review refers to the ‘Colour’ version, a…

The reviewed sample is thanks to @Robert99. This is blended malt without an age statementNose: strong intensity thick sweet maple with baking spices of cassia, cloves, and nutmeg, like Danfield's 21 yo…