Whisky Reviews

    The phoenix blend. Apparently only 500 bottles. Interesting story is that according to the bartender, this supposedly is a combination of over...

    Bartender says it's malts aged 15 to 25 years old with an average of 19 years.Nose: like a sweet coconut and pineapple mix, smells like an imm...

    Bottled for the 2015 Chichibu Whisky Matsuri. I suspect I will like this as I tend to prefer these beer barreled whiskies. Not sure why the ge...

    Bottled for the 2016 Chichibu Whisky Festival. The craze. The myths. The legends. Mizunara on the label too, but heads so I am not sure if the...

Very rare bottle in very good condition according to the bartender. Bartender said this was the "number 1 whisky in Japan". No information o...

    Wow, a lot going on here, an Ichiro's Malt, a single cask Chichibu from 2009, Shinanoya and their 5th anniversary is involved, a chibidaru too...

  We're into Kanosuke's third flagship release. There were two in 2021, and then this one in 2022, the three of which have largely given represent...

  These two very recognisable expressions - the Nikka Coffey Grain Whisky and the Nikka Coffey Malt Whisky - are probably something you'd find in ...

  These two expressions form the core of the house of Nikka, the second largest whisky distiller in Japan, and also one whose contributions have p...

  How funny is that one of the most anticipated Japanese whiskies of 2022 is technically something that's already been around for a while. We're h...

  Sakurao is a turnaround story that is in the process of transitioning from producing world blended whiskies to their own Japanese single malts. ...

  Technically this bottle should be the last of its kind - after all, Nikka announced in 2020 that it would discontinue its age statement releases...