Whisky Reviews

  My experiences with Shizuoka’s core range offerings have been very consistent. Their 3-year-old whiskies are respectable in quality despite thei...

  Amidst this swirling maelstrom of praise and adulation for Japanese craft distilleries, I've always felt that Shizuoka Distillery’s offerings ha...

  Time sure does fly! Somehow I've begin keeping time by the intervals of official Kanosuke releases...2021's 1st Edition, 2nd Edition, 2022 Limit...

  Chichibu has aced the private bottling game with by now hundreds (might even be a thousand actually) of private bottlings for a whole host of pr...

    A year ago - that's 2022 - the jury was still out on which of the new crop of Japanese whisky distillers was the frontrunner of this new wave...

In a half tipsy stupor from merrymaking at yatai food stores with the friendly folks of Fukuoka, I clamoured towards Bar Westie @barwestie2015, a w...

    Eigashima Ryo 7yo, d.2009, KINKO Selected Release, Bourbon barrel, 56% abv.KINKO is a shop in southern Kyushu if I remember correctly. They do...

    Fuji Gotemba 25yo, Small batch, 46% abv.Single grain distillery exclusive bottle. Normal people can't get in. Wild turkey casks.Nose: intense ...

    An early Whisky Talk Fukuoka bottling, this one being from the "Moon and Vanishing Animals" (月と失われゆく動物) series. This animal is the Japanese cr...

    Before Number One, there was Mercian. Was it better then? Mixed feelings on that as some seemed to be good, but many did not, and I feel like ...

    Another pre-Number One release, quite young. Lucky to even find these around. Had this in late 2019.Nose: a sort of grape and fruit perfume, i...

    Chichibu 6yo, 2009-2016, Malt Dream Cask for FOS, Bourbon no. 539, 76/177, 62% abv.For Bar Forest on the Sea (in Tokyo, Asaksa) on their 15 an...