Japan has a significant whiskey distillation setup, generally though to be in the Scots vein of production. I wonder what their signature would look like. Of course wasting any of it by purposely letting it evaporate is nearly a criminal act.
I can’t even find a 12 locally. Have to settle for bottles of Harmony.
You live in Japan. In the respect of your privacy, I will not share your exact location here
Nope, but have traveled there multiple times.
> In the respect of your privacy, I will not share your exact location here
1) if you knew my exact location, you wouldn’t have made the claim I live in Japan.
2) the tone definitely feels creepy, even if you were trying to cover yourself by implying you were doing the honorable thing.
Impossible to get the "exact" tone via text.
Somewhat true, but re-read your statement again. When you don’t know me (or really anything about me), why would you imply you know my exact location and the only reason you didn’t share it was because of respecting my privacy? Your first sentence was fine (although factually incorrect), but I feel many who read your second sentence would find it to have a bit of a creepy tone (possibly why it was downvoted, but who knows what actually goes through someone’s mind who downvotes w/o commenting).
My standard purchase now is Kabuto (old g+g blend in a plastic samurai themed bottle) since they are $50 at JAL duty free and worth $300-400 on the second-hand market, since they are a JAL Duty Free exclusive. (I’m in the JAL F lounge at NRT right now, actually)
I didn't even know Japan made whisky (whiskey?) until about a month ago when trying a Nikka Yoichi brought to us by a Japanese colleague. We were very impressed. This was easily as tasty as many of the better Scotch single malts. In fact I bet if people wouldn't see the bottle and would be asked what it was the majority would say 'good Scotch' :)
Hakushu is also great, but I haven't tried their 18/25 aged whiskeys.
Yamazaki 18 won a 'Gold'[1] award five years back through the International Spirits Challenge and has been difficult to find reasonable prices since.