Whisky Reviews

  Top 7 Afterparty & Late Night Bottles: Nikka Whisky From The BarrelAfter bouncing between Kentucky and Scotland for the first five bottles ...

Fruity and Spicy       Since my earlier reviews of the Shizuoka Prologue K and Prologue W, well-meaning connoisseurs have expressed some concern ...

  Today, we review a Nikka series very often seen in Japanese convenience or grocery stores.    Pour a Nikka Black, and white people in Tudor-era...

Perhaps the most heavily-anticipated set of Nikkas that came out of 2021 was Volume 1 of Nikka’s Discovery Series. The series intends to give fans...

Sometimes, whisky changes lives; it really does. If you think I'm being dramatic, just look to Daiko Nakamura, the man behind Shizuoka Distillery....

  A great selection of Nikka whiskies this evening at Straits Clan. For me, I thought the Miyagikyo single malt and the Taketsuru pure malt were...

  Top 10 bottles to bring to a holiday party: Tenjaku Blended Whisky Welcome to installment ocho of this 10-piece list. If you’re just stumbling ...

  Shizuoka Distillery is one of the most hotly anticipated in the wave of Japanese craft distilleries starting to hatch out of their shells, ready ...

Fragrant and Floral     This is the bottle that really needs no introduction but we’ll do one anyway. The Yamazaki 12 certainly has a reputation th...

Rich and Round     What are you waiting for? Get it now at our shop and take an adventure with Ichiro!   The man, the myth, the legend… we have i...

  Karuizawa Vintage, 1984-2003, 18 years, Cask No. 8354, 58.7% abv.Before Karuizawa was shutdown and Number One Drinks took all the remaining cas...

  Mars Maltage Triple Cask Malt Whisky Vintage Satsuma, 1984, 20 years, sherry cask no. 1683, 1684, 1691, 0232/1752, 55% abv.This Hombo Mars bott...