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Akashi 3 Year Old, 2015-2018, Sake Cask Matured, Ghost Series, Cask no. 101520, 500 bottles, 61.5% abv.
June 1, 2023
I was able to join the special tasting seminar by Stefan van Eycken at Whiskytalk 2019. This tasting ended up going through a bunch of ghost s...
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Mars Komagatake 3 Year Old, 2015-2018, Tsunuki aging, Bourbon cask no. 5141, 6/200, 60.0% abv.
June 1, 2023
Had this at a special tasting seminar by Stefan van Eycken at Whiskytalk 2019. This tasting ended up going through a bunch of ghost series bot...
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Ichiro's Malt, Chichibu × Hanyu, b.2018, "Double Distilleries + Peated", 13/128, 61.3% abv.
June 1, 2023
Another famous ghost series bottling at Stefan Van's 2019 liquid ghost tasting seminar at Whiskytalk Fukuoka.Nose: light body, light wood, ins...
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Akashi 5 Year Old, 2005-2010, 1st Cask American White Oak Hogshead : 2nd Cask Spanish Oak Sherry Butt, 77/102, 59% abv.
June 1, 2023
Peated to 3.5 ppm. I believe Stefan introduced this bottling (as well as the grey counterpart) as the motivation or beginning of the ghost sto...
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Akashi 12 Year Old, 1997-2010, Spanish Oak Sherry Butt, 17/102, 59% abv.
June 1, 2023
I believe Stefan introduced this bottling (as well as the white counterpart) as the motivation or beginning of the ghost stories/series? Someo...
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Hanyu 11 Year Old, 2000-2011, Ichiro's Malt, Bottled for Whisky Talk Fukuoka, 1st cask: hogshead, 2nd cask: quarter cask, 16/181, 58.7% abv.
June 1, 2023
I believe this is the first in the Moon and Vanishing Animals (月と失われゆく動物) series, a Whisky Talk bottling series that perhaps represents the fe...
- Eric Yee
- Hanyu
- Ichiro
- Japanese Whisky
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Mars 2014-2017, Bottled for The Whisky Talk Fukuoka, Phoenix and the Sun, Yakushima aging cellar, Bourbon barrel no. 2004, 201/229, 60% abv.
June 1, 2023
Another famous bottling series from Whisky Talk, the Phoenix and the Sun series. Interestingly, not Komagatake... I wonder what is the real diff...
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Yoichi 20 Year Old, d.1989, 55% abv.
June 1, 2023
Not a part of the decades lineup, but those barrels from a single vintage. Has this at the end of 2019.Nose: grapes, raisins, turns to vanilla...
- Eric Yee
- Japanese Whisky
- Nikka
- Yoichi
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Suntory Gold Blended, 42.0% abv
June 1, 2023
Last parts of a special bars anniversary. Real bottlekill. Not much information on this one other than it was made at Yamazaki. There is anoth...
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Ichiro's Malt and Grain, Japanese Blended Whisky, 29th Anniversary Kiyosato Field Ballet, 306/403, 48% abv.
June 1, 2023
The Kiyosato Field Ballet is performed "outdoors" from July to August every year since it's inauguration in 1990. For some reason, these comme...
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Longmorn 38 Year Old, 1972-2011, Gordon & MacPhail, Japan Import System, First-fill Sherry butt no. 1078, 407/410, 53.9% abv.
June 1, 2023
Japan seems to have many of these old GM book of kells, delicious bottlings. Long term relationships? Good exchange rates? Business? Maybe al...
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Longmorn 33 Year Old, 1973-2006, Gordon & MacPhail, First fill sherry butt no. 3650, 54.0% abv.
June 1, 2023
Had this at the 2019 Whiskytalk Fukuoka!!! It was my first whisky festival and I had a blast! I should post all my pours one day, get it out o...
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