Japanese Single Malt Whisky

Japanese Single Malt Whiskies. Japanese whiskey is above all a love story between Japan and Scotland, both literally and figuratively. In the early 20th century, Mr Masataka Taketsuru was sent on a study trip to Scotland by Mr Shinjiro Torii then boss of the house Suntory. His employer, a Sake producer, was worried about the drop in Sake consumption in Japan and was looking for another segment to develop. Mr. Masataka Taketsuru met Miss Rita Cowan in Scotland and quickly fell in love with her, and he brought her back to the country to get married as well as the idea of producing whiskey in Japan ...
Japan is now considered a big producer of whiskey, both in quantity and quality !!! Currently two groups share almost the entire market. Suntory owns Yamazaki and Hakushu and the Nikka group owns Yioichi and Miyagikyo. These distilleries are far from being worthy of Scottish distilleries, since in many world competitions, Japanese whiskeys are the best places. This can be explained by the fact that the Japanese enjoy a beautiful terroir to produce whiskey, pure water, an ideal climate, peat bogs on the island Hokkaido contribute to make great Singles malts. Grain whiskeys from corn, high percentage of malt in blended explain the huge progress of the latter for 20 years. Some examples of what we offer on our website or in the cellar, Nikka, Coffey malt, Coffey Grain, Pure Malt (Black, White, Red) Yoichi 10years, Yoichi 12years, Yoichi 15years, Black 8, Hibiki 12 years old, Hibiki 17 years old, Yamazaki, Miyagikyo no age, Hakushu 12 years old ...