Spotlights and Deep-Dives

  If Wes Anderson ever wanted to set a film in a whisky distillery, Tormore would be the obvious choice. It does not feel like an industrial site ...

  In the cold of Niigata, central Japan, a little distillery - amongst the smallest of the country, in fact - is running left where its peers are ...

  Kunikiku Amazake (国菊甘酒), Hiramatsu Sake (比良松), Sen Nen No Nemuri Mugi (Barley) Shochu (千年の眠り), Takamine Koji Whiskey, Amagi Rum, Shindo Japanese...

  Every year, Whisky Talk Fukuoka draws tens of thousands of whisky lovers from all across Japan and the really the world to the biggest and most ...

  Akkeshi Distillery  Akkeshi, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan Note: Our Distillery Spotlight articles breaks down how each distillery's unique pro...

  Paper maker Tokushu Tokai Paper is no small guppy - the company has been around for about 120 years and owns bar none the largest privately-held...

  Unlike the craft Japanese distillers and the sizeable Japanese whisky distilling giants, Yamazakura's whiskies sit somewhere in between. Their w...

Mars (Hombo Shuzo) Regions: Nagano, Kagoshima & Yakushima, Japan It felt like a terrible waste that the Taketsuru whisky study commissioned b...

Archie Rose Distillery Sydney, New South Wales, Australia   "Our six malt mash bill produces an extremely low-yielding spirit – a small sacrifi...

Starward Distillery Melbourne, Australia      Perhaps one of the most unimaginable things wrought on by the Covid pandemic is the bringing of a...