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SKU 959296
$1,199.94Original price was: $1,199.94.$1,049.94Current price is: $1,049.94./bottle
2 in stock
Availability: There are 2 bottles available for Rapid Shipment or in-store pick up at our location in Ballston Lake, N.Y.
This blended whisky is an ideal sipper, with an enticing crème brûlèe and dried apricot scents. Those notes are echoed on the palate, but are layered with drier oak and cigar wrapper notes, woven together on a light layer of peat smoke. Soft, complex and well-balanced.
All over Japan, farmers and wine producers take the production of alcoholic beverages including plum wine and sake very seriously. It is an industry which dates back well over a thousand years, and is held in high esteem in this far east country, where plum wines and sake often accompany meals and are used for ceremonial purposes. Whilst plum wine is produced in a relatively similar way to grape based wines, sake requires a complex process more akin to the brewing of beer, except using a rice mash instead of other grains. The rising popularity of both of these drinks in the west has seen the drinks industry in Japan increase dramatically over recent years, and both quality and quantity has risen alongside demand, and is expected to rise further.
WE95pts
Wine Enthusiast
This blended whisky is an ideal sipper, with an enticing crème brûlèe and dried apricot scents. Those notes are echoed on the palate, but are layered with drier oak and cigar wrapper notes, woven together on a light layer of peat smoke. Soft, complex and well-balanced.
WKY93pts
Whisky Advocate
Deep layers of vanilla and mizunara oak with sugar sprinkled pastries, incense sticks, oiled wood, tatami, dried apricot, golden sultana, and faint smoky spiciness. Nectarous mouthfeel with honey, barley sugar, dried citrus, orange peel, and delicate spices, it continues to sweeten beautifully showing vanilla, sugared almonds, banana custard, with hints of ginger and gentle oak. Slightly gummy finish as the vanilla quenches little eruptions of wood spices. - Winter 2021
Winery Notes
Full of grace. Tenderly unfolding a calm essence.
Color: Bronze amber.
Nose: Cooked fruit, blackberry, ripe banana, caramel.
Palate: Sandalwood, honeycomb, dried apricot and Mizunara (Japanese oak).
Finish: Long, rich with incense aroma.
700ml
Rapid Ship
