Something significant happened in the Japanese whisky world on March 31, 2024. You won’t read about it in many headlines or on social media, but it fundamentally shifts the way …
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Meiyo 17 Year is marketed as a Single Grain Japanese Whisky for the US Market. Along with this review, we explore the origins of this and many self-labeled Japanese whiskies …
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Today, I’m starting a new series called the Single Malt Savvy Classic Review Series. I did a lot of whisky reviews before I started this website and my backlog of …
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Me and Japanese whisky. Japanese whisky and me. It’s a strained relationship these days to say the least. We used to get along fine back in the day. I enjoyed …
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Hanyu is one of those distilleries that really intrigues me if for no other reason than it really got caught in the middle of the Japanese whisky firestorm. I think …
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In my last review, I took a look at a Karuizawa that was made up of vatted casks from the final year or two of production that resulted in a …
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What’s the deal with Karuizawa? Karuizawa, better known as “Japanese Gold” in my house, is that awesome Japanese distillery that closed in 2000. Sometime around 2012, some folks on the …