Whisky Reviews

  2021 Christmas Shopping Lists, the Japanese Whiskies: Nikka Whisky From The BarrelNo list of Japanese liquor would be complete without Nikka WF...

  Christmas 2021 Shopping Lists, the Japanese Whiskies: Hakushu 12The first half of this week was all about rye, but Japanese Single Malt & B...

  Though it’s cold and lonely in these deep dark nights, I can see Hakushu by the pale moonlight.Although my inclusion of a boatload of peated wh...

  Top 7 Afterparty & Late Night Bottles: Nikka Whisky From The BarrelAfter bouncing between Kentucky and Scotland for the first five bottles ...

Fruity and Spicy       Since my earlier reviews of the Shizuoka Prologue K and Prologue W, well-meaning connoisseurs have expressed some concern ...

  Today, we review a Nikka series very often seen in Japanese convenience or grocery stores.    Pour a Nikka Black, and white people in Tudor-era...

Perhaps the most heavily-anticipated set of Nikkas that came out of 2021 was Volume 1 of Nikka’s Discovery Series. The series intends to give fans...

Sometimes, whisky changes lives; it really does. If you think I'm being dramatic, just look to Daiko Nakamura, the man behind Shizuoka Distillery....

  A great selection of Nikka whiskies this evening at Straits Clan. For me, I thought the Miyagikyo single malt and the Taketsuru pure malt were...

  Top 10 bottles to bring to a holiday party: Tenjaku Blended Whisky Welcome to installment ocho of this 10-piece list. If you’re just stumbling ...

  Shizuoka Distillery is one of the most hotly anticipated in the wave of Japanese craft distilleries starting to hatch out of their shells, ready ...

Fragrant and Floral     This is the bottle that really needs no introduction but we’ll do one anyway. The Yamazaki 12 certainly has a reputation th...