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| Hello, that is one in every of our (virtually) every day tastings. Santé! |
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July 26, 2021
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Olympic Japanese trios, Day 2/8 |
| Since we have been having some wonderful Yoichis, let’s have extra in the event you do not thoughts… |
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Yoichi ‘Apple Brandy Wooden End’ (47%, OB, Japan, 6700 bottles, 2020) 
I’ve seen this at €200, which left me flabbergasted. I imply, whisky flavoured with calvados and bought with none age assertion? What is the concept? Having mentioned that, the story goes like ‘Mr Taketsuru used to promote apple juice whereas his first whiskies have been maturing, so there’s at all times been a robust relationship between Nikka and apples’. All proper then, might I recommend a William Inform Version subsequent time? Color: gold. Nostril: you do really feel some candy cider in the event you nostril deeply, in any other case a softer, simpler maltiness on brioche and brown beer. Having mentioned that, in the event you wait, you may begin to discover notes of mint (rubbed leaves), dill, fennel, menthol tobacco… Now the notes of apple brandy have virtually disappeared. Contact of incense. Mouth: fairly good, if a tad ‘crossover’. Sweeter, fruitier, actually on candy apples this time, then kirschwasser and slightly crème de menthe. Some drops of that pink peppercorn liqueur that vacationers convey again from… Wait, what’s the nation once more? You say Scotland? Edinburgh??? End: medium, quite on walnut cake, with solely a gentle smokiness. Maybe slightly pastis within the aftertaste, in addition to some inexperienced peat and a few bitterness. Shoe polish. Feedback: superb, very candy, with an uncommon mixture (apples, mint, peat, aniseed). Now ‘Japanese Whisky Of The Yr’? To every her/his personal.
SGP:653 – 86 factors. |
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Yamazaki 12 yo (43%, OB, Japan, +/-2021) 
It has been ages, it was about time. No have to curb our enthusiasm, within the personal phrases of Larry David. Color: gentle gold. Nostril: slightly burnt wooden, peelings, beers, butter, mashed potatoes and turnips, sawdust, autumn leaves… That is actually dry; I am virtually discovering spinach and eggplant. No fruits in anyway on this nostril. Mouth: significantly better on the palate, larger, sweeter, with higher beers and pear juice, fairly some oak for positive, natural teas, cinnamon, ginseng, then going in the direction of eucalyptus, peppermint and, maintain on, mizunara oak? End: slightly brief, quite on comfortable liquorice, with a couple of tropical fruits coming in late. Bananas, papayas and mint. Feedback: I discover it slightly wobbly within the knees, to let you know the reality and never too flamboyant, however it’s a fantastic drop. Wants time, for positive.
SGP:351 – 81 factors. |
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Yamazakura Asaka ‘The primary’ (50%, OB, Japan, 2019)
Stated to be the very first whisky distilled, aged, blended and bottled by the Asaka Distillery which is positioned north of Tokyo. In my e-book, the identify Yamazakura may be very shady due to some awful international ‘Japanese’ whiskies, however solely fools by no means change their thoughts. Color: white wine. Nostril: good, bready, with touches of paraffin and white asparagus, inexperienced bananas, guavas (not unseen in very younger malts), doughs, sweeter weissbeer… Nicely I do take pleasure in this. With water: good, with moist plaster, potatoes, final 12 months’s apples, a pile of previous magazines, a wee mustiness that is not disagreeable… So I repeat, that is good. Mouth (neat): fairly good, with a couple of perfumy touches at first however the distillate’s been nicely taken care of, with some singular mentholy fruits and a number of other fragrant herbs. Some sort of Japanese natural smoothie of top of the range. With water: some mead and a few sake kicking in., extra white beers… Properly fermentary. End: medium, rounded, on some sort of fruit beer. The aftertaste is a tad sugary. Feedback: I will say it, once I noticed the identify Yamazakura I pulled out my pistol and put it on the tasting desk. That was not obligatory in any respect, I am very positively stunned.
SGP:542 – 86 factors. |
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Yamazakura Asaka ‘The primary’ (50%, OB, Japan, 2019)
Yoichi ‘Apple Brandy Wooden End’ (47%, OB, Japan, 6700 bottles, 2020) |
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Yamazaki 12 yo (43%, OB, Japan, +/-2021) |
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