YAMAZAKI 18 YEAR OLD - MIZUNARA CASK (2017)
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YAMAZAKI 18 YEAR OLD - MIZUNARA CASK (2017)
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Description
An incredibly rare and sought-after release from pioneering Japanese distillery Yamazaki. Created by master blender Shinji Fukuyo using Yamazaki’s decades of experience with mizunara – Japanese oak – and whiskies from 18 to 50 years of age, this very limited release showcases the wood’s unique effect on maturing spirit.
This 2017 Yamazaki release has an 18 year old age statement but is said to contain whiskies aged from 18 years up to 50 years all of which have been matured in casks made from native Mizunara oak wood only grown in Japan and only used by Suntory’s whisky portfolio.
- Country: Japan
- Region: Japan
- Size: 70cl
- Type: Single Malt Whisky
- Age: 18
- Number of Bottles: 1
- Strength (%): 48%
- Distillery: Yamazaki
- Distillery Status: Operational
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About the Distillery:
Yamazaki distillery is a Japanese whisky distillery located in Shimamoto, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Opened in 1923, and owned by Suntory, it was Japan's first commercial whisky distillery. Seven thousand bottles of unblended malt whisky are on display in its Whisky Library.
The company founder and chairman of Kotobukiya wanted to produce a serious whisky and therefore hired Taketsuru Masataka, whom he appointed factory director of the Yamazaki distillery in 1924. This descendant of a sake brewing family from the 17th century was in Scotland in 1918. He traveled to study at Glasgow University and learned how to make Scotch whisky on site. He married a Scottish girl, Jessie Roberta Cowan, who went to Japan with him in 1920. Under Taketsuru the production of the first whisky was completed in 1929, which was sold as shirofuda. Due to differences with Torii, Taketsuru left the company in 1934 and founded the Daju-Nippon Kaju KK company , later called Nikka Whisky Distilling, in Hokkaidō in the same year.
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