Whisky Reviews

  Aaron Kovalcsik / Alligator Char Follow Aaron on Instagram, or catch him at the one and only Aloha Whisky Bar! Read more of Aaron's rev...

  The 1980s marked a period of heady optimism in Japan with a miraculously booming economy and a people increasingly drawn to finer things in life...

  It's officially been a decade since Nikka first sounded the alarm that it had begun to seriously deplete its aged stocks of whiskies - in 2015, ...

  Now we're all probably familiar with Salud Spirits' work with Chichibu, having created numerous highly sought after series from the Intergalacti...

  How better to ring in the new year with a visit to the God of Fortune? We'll take any fortune that we can get, won't we? It's been a hot minute ...

  Many often trace the origins of the global Japanese whisky boom to this scene in the 2003 cult classic film Lost in Translation, where Bill Murr...

  It's incredibly commendable that even into its 16th anniversary, the cult Japanese whisky distiller that is Chichibu, continues to demonstrate t...

Aaron Kovalcsik / Alligator Char Follow Aaron on Instagram, or catch him at the one and only Aloha Whisky Bar! Read more of Aaron's reviews ...

  It's been a hot minute since Nikka came on the scene and helped to establish whiskymaking in Japan, where today Japan is one of the foremost and...

  There’s been an emerging trend where we see a convergence between the whisky and art world. This seems to have begun with a niche group of Europ...

  We're back with another Chichibu from Salud Spirits over in Netherlands and Austria - this one's from the cult Japanese distillery's Ichiro's Ma...

  Our first encounter with Japan's "Islay" distillery - Akkeshi! Akkeshi, based in the town of the same name in Hokkaido up in northern Japan, has...