Originally a sake producer, the White Oak distillery obtained their whisky license in 1919. The distillery is located in the city of Akashi in the neighborhood of Eigashima on the shore of Seto inland sea just west of Kobe, an area with a mild, stable climate. Crafted from 70% corn, 30% lightly peated, crisp UK…
A delicious blend of White Oak distillery’s 7, 5, and 4 year old malts bottles at 46% ABV. Producing using lightly peated barley and aged in three different types of cask, this is the brand s flagship malt. From Axis of Whisky: The nose leads with honey and orchard fruit, followed by a palate that has more honey,…
Fukano Distillery has been making spirits in Japan since 1823. Shigeruriku Fukano is the fifth generation of his family to run the distillery, located in Hitoyoshi City, Kumamoto Prefecture of Japan, a few towns away from Ohishi Distillery. Kuma River is the water supply for both distilleries. Fukano Whisky 2018 Edition is a limited edition…
Gyokusendo Shuzo Co. has been in the business of producing alcoholic beverages for over 200 years. All this time they have remained a small production, focused on creating high-quality products. Their whiskey is made in small batches and aged in their own sherry casks. The nose is floral and highly aromatic, and the whiskey has…
For the greater common good, this item is limited to one per customer. We appreciate your cooperation. The Hakushu Distillery is owned by Suntory, which owns Yamazaki as well. This has helped increase production of the Hakushu line and we aren t complaining. It has also led to some experimentation, which we aren t complaining…
For the greater common good, this item is limited to one per customer. We appreciate your cooperation. In February 1899, Shinjiro Torii – the father of Japanese Whisky – opened a general store in Osaka, Japan that traded in imported wines. Within a decade, Torii began producing his own sweet grape wine called Akadama Port…
For the greater common good, this item is limited to one per customer. We appreciate your cooperation. In February 1899, Shinjiro Torii opened a store in Osaka, Japan that traded in imported wines. Within a decade, Torii began producing his own sweet grape wine called Akadama Port Wine, which became wildly popular throughout the country….
A fantastic combination of grain whisky and premium malts from the Yamazaki and Hakushu distilleries, Hibiki 17 is an award winning whisky from Suntory. This whisky is a silently beautiful blend, rich yet delicate, with a sweetness that finishes with long notes of oak. Well balanced yet complex. And the bottle that finds second life as a…
For the greater common good, this item is limited to one per customer. We appreciate your cooperation. The Hibiki 21 Year Old is a perennial winner at award shows across the world and selected once again as the best blended whisky in the world at the World Whisky Awards 2016. The judges described it as…
The 2022 Hibiki Blossom Harmony is a limited-edition blend made with whiskies finished in Sakura (cherry blossom) casks, an innovation that pays tribute to a traditional Japanese moment of celebration. The Sakura Blossom season in early spring has always been an occasion for celebration in Japan, with many gathering around the beautiful flowering Sakura trees…
Hibiki Japanese Harmony is made with malt whiskies from the Yamazaki and Hakushu distilleries, as well as grain whisky from the Chita distillery. The whiskies are drawn from 5 different types of cask, including American white oak casks, Sherry casks and Mizunara oak casks. The blend itself was crafted by the Suntory Whisky blending team,…
Building on the classic, white-label, Ichiro’s Malt and Grain, this new bottle is a limited edition of the expression. This limited edition of Ichiro’s beloved Malt & Grain blends Scotch, Canadian Rye, Bourbon, Irish Whiskey, and Ichiro’s own single malt. Once brought back to Japan, each whisk(e)y aged for 10+ years before vatting. The result…
In Ichiro’s words “An all world whisky” the key malt is Ichiro’s Malt, with his selection of Scotch, Irish, Canadian and Bourbon aged in country 3-5 years and aged on sight in Chichibu an additional 1-3 years. Ichiro’s Malt and Grain is blended to balance a heart of Japanese whisky complimented by the major whiskies…
An extremely hard to find bottling from Chichibu distillery! Ichiro Akuto, the founder of Chichibu and the grand son of the Hanyu Distillery founder, has made a strong name for himself producing surprisingly complex whiskies at relatively younger ages. This bottling is part of a small 618 bottle run in 2016. Almost pink in color,…
Ichiro Akuto releases the first 5 year old of his distillery founded in 2008 at the foot of a mountain in the region of Saitama single malt. This whisky is (currently) the oldest one produced in Chichibu, which is gaining in quality and maturity each year. Grand-son of the founder of Hanyu distillery, now closed,…