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Tasting Through Shizuoka Distillery's Pot Still K Japanese Barley 2003 & 2004, Pot Still K Imported Barley 2024, Pot Still W Imported Barley 2024, Pot Still W Japanese Barley 2024 & United S 2023 Summer
June 10, 2025
The entrance – do you spot the Eagle Rare cask? Recently, local Singaporean distributor INTERCO-MLE held a tasting flight of Shizuoka whisky. The ...
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Taste Testing Shizuoka 2020, 3 Year Old, Karuizawa Still, MexicaNOH Single Cask Bottled For Armandrinksss
November 20, 2024
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Shizuoka 2018, 5 Year Old, Only One Mizunara Cask, Private Cask for KINKO, 57.3% ABV | 静岡 2018-2023 オンリーワンミズナラカスク 5年ウイスキーキンコーさんPB
June 25, 2024
Is this not such a striking label? Those familiar with the Japanese bar scene might quickly recognise it as being from Kinko, a reputable liquor...
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Two Shizuoka Ex-Bourbon Private Cask Bottlings for M&E Drinks
August 16, 2023
It sounds like a pretty attractive option to invest in an asset you could actually taste yourself. With the rising prices of whisky around the w...
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Shizuoka Pot Still K & Pot Still W Imported Barley Head-to-Head
July 2, 2023
My experiences with Shizuoka’s core range offerings have been very consistent. Their 3-year-old whiskies are respectable in quality despite thei...
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Shizuoka United S vs. Contact S Head-to-Head
July 2, 2023
Amidst this swirling maelstrom of praise and adulation for Japanese craft distilleries, I've always felt that Shizuoka Distillery’s offerings ha...
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Two Shizuoka's Two Barleys: Shizuoka Pot Still K Japanese Barley First Edition, 55.5%, & Shizuoka Pot Still W Imported Barley First Edition, 55.5%
January 10, 2023
Whisky has roughly three ingredients - barley, water, yeast. Yet, it isn't the easiest in the world for all three of them to serendipitously app...
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A Pair Of Shizuoka's: Blackadder Raw Cask Single Malt Shizuoka 2018, Bourbon Cask, 3 Year Old, Cask No. 781 & Blackadder Raw Cask Single Malt Shizuoka 2018, Red Wine Cask, Japanese Barley, 3 Year Old, Cask No. 1357
October 26, 2022
This reminds us of... glazed doughnuts for the bourbon cask and Fanta grape for the red wine cask! Try this if... You've a sweet tooth or ju...
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Shizuoka Contact S Single Malt, 55.5% ABV
March 20, 2022
Fruity and Spicy Since my earlier reviews of the Shizuoka Prologue K and Prologue W, well-meaning connoisseurs have expressed some concern ...
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