YAMAZAKI & HAKUSHU
A celebration of the House of Suntory
Suntory built Yamazaki in 1923, on a misty plain outside Kyoto where three rivers meet. Half a century later they went the other way entirely - up into the forests of the Southern Japanese Alps - and built Hakushu. Same house, same obsessive craft, two whiskies that could not taste less alike.
Seven hundred metres up in the Southern Japanese Alps. Granite-filtered meltwater, a cooler climate and a whisper of peat - it tastes like the woodland it's made in.
Yamazaki
Distiller's Reserve
70cl / 43%
This single malt from the Yamazaki distillery is jam-packed with superb red berry notes, gained from the whisky being matured in Bordeaux wine casks and Sherry casks. It also features malt matured in Mizunara casks, adding subtle fragrant oak notes.
Yamazaki
12 Year Old
70cl / 43%
This 12 year old first came onto the market in 1984 and was the first seriously marketed Japanese single malt whisky. Since then, it has acquired something of a cult following, and for good reason! A wonderfully elegant and smooth single malt that’s certainly not lacking in flavour.
Soft water, humid air, and mizunara oak doing something no other cask quite manages - sandalwood, incense, and a finish that goes on for days.
The Aged Expressions
Rarer, older, and worth the pause
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When the Japanese whisky habit usually starts
Toki Blended
70cl / 43%
Hibiki Harmony
70cl / 43%
Chita Single Grain
70cl / 43%
How they drink it in japan
The highball is not a compromise. Two parts whisky, six parts very cold soda, one long stir, no fuss - it's how Toki and Hakushu are drunk at home, and it does something to the green, herbal side of Hakushu that neat serving simply doesn't.
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