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Unread 03-23-2014, 06:09 PM   #12
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I'll keep this short, this not being a whisky forum...

First thing about Japanese whisky, drop the 'e'. Unlike America and Ireland, Japan shares with the Scotsmen (and the Canadians), the spelling. Even though the etymology of the word is Gaelic (Irish Gaelic not Scot Gaelic), so "whiskey" is probably correct, who cares though, if the Scots spell it without an e, then that spelling gets my vote too!

Next thing is, the Japanese have always pursued the flavour of Scotch. A Japanese chemist came back from years in Scotland and started the whole Japanese Whisky thing about 100 years ago.

The Japanese pride themselves in not selling off their extra stock to "Blenders", thus it is hard to find a Japanese Blend. Single malt rules in Japan.

My current stock:
1. Nikka Miyagikyo, 12 year, 90 proof, slow building lasting flavour, in fact when you first pour it, you can't smell anything. Then ten minutes in the glass and you can smell it from your chair. Really something.
2. Suntory Yamazaki, 12 year, 86 proof, very light and absolutely delicious. Yamazaki is a neighborhood in Kyoto, used to have more distilleries there than all of Japan combined.
3. Suntory Hibiki, 12 year, 86 proof, very full bodied, heavy, smokey, good with a cigar.

There are so many others, but...

There ends my first intro into Japanese Whisky.

Hope the moderators on this forum don't delete this! I promise, my next post will be about double guns!

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