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| Hello, that is certainly one of our (nearly) every day tastings. Santé! |
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August 5, 2021
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Olympic Japanese trios, Day 8/8 |
| We ended the most recent session with a completed NAS from Nikka’s Miyagikyo, so let’s maintain the momentum going… However I swear these would be the final Japanese on WF for an extended whereas… |
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Miyagikyo ‘Sherry Wooden End’ (46%, OB, Japan, 1890 bottles, 2018) 
Apparently, that is cream sherry, so a mix of oxidative sherry (oloroso an all) with PX. Color: deep gold. Nostril: peonies and copper cash, I’d say, then blood oranges and walnuts. Somewhat hoisin, slivovitz, wee whiffs of struck matches, black raisins, backyard peat, somewhat pipe tobacco from an previous leather-based pouch, whiffs of previous instruments (in an previous toolbox in an previous storage)… Cherry stem tea… That is good. Mouth: naturally, this is excellent, leafier and extra leathery than your common sherried malt, extra natural too, with overripe gooseberries and plenty of dried fruits (dates first, then raisins and figs). Retains unfolding with charry liqueur (guignolet) and plenty of smaller unique natural touches, sandalwood, nori, yuzu, and even one thing somewhat coastal. Honey-and-soy-glazed unagi? And why not? End: slightly lengthy, leafier. Some natural tea that you’d have saved for too lengthy in an previous clay teapot – or one thing like that. Feedback: hate that it is NAS however frankly, it is a wonderful malt. €180-excellent? Nicely properly properly…
SGP:551 – 86 factors. |
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Let’s maintain following the trail, I suppose you’ve got observed that there was at all times a transparent relation between the earlier whisky and the subsequent one. Hey, did you discover?… One other instance…
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Yoichi ‘Sherry Wooden End’ (46%, OB, Japan, 3132 bottles, 2018)
This was completed in ‘cream’ sherry’ too. Cream ain’t something particular, until it is very previous, and cream plus peat might properly ignite world struggle III. The excellent news is that Yoichi’s solely evenly peated, and that it was solely a one-year ending, so WWIII will wait. Color: deep gold. Nostril: nah, it labored. Tobacco, eucalyptus, walnut liqueur, pecan pie, vieille prune, and even some form of notice of some form of cognac. Korean plum wine, previous brandy de Jerez, chocolate sauce, and echoes of some previous Scotch malt, let me rack my mind… Yeah, I bear in mind, some previous Glenfiddichs have been like this. Early Nineteen Seventies distillations, sherry… And patchouli. Mouth: fuller than its bro the Miyagikyo, but form of tighter, actually earthier, with some sides that remind me of the Nikka Pure Malt Black from twenty years in the past. These have been beautiful wee bottles. Chocolate, black tea, walnut wine, gentle peat, marmalade, a tiny drop of teriyaki sauce. End: slightly lengthy and slightly extra on tobacco and Assam tea. Feedback: unhealthy Q/P ratio however certainly it is a very beautiful drop.
SGP:452 – 87 factors. |
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Our final Japanese for the time-being…
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Yoichi ‘Bourbon Wooden End’ (46%, OB, Japan, 2934 bottles, 2018)
Hope this isn’t a vanilla bomb, however everyone knows that they know the best way to do it… Color: gold. Nostril: ah properly it isn’t a vanilla bomb. We’re slightly discovering bergamots and yuzu as soon as once more, marmalade, blancmange, banana wine, gooseberries, solely then vanilla pods and somewhat strawberry yoghurt that we had already present in different Yoichis a couple of days in the past. What it would not fairly have is p.e.a.t.; is not Yoichi peated? Mouth: straightforward, slightly smooth, a tad liqueury and an excessive amount of on fruit juices (greengages and grapes), however let’s be trustworthy, that is good. We’re considerably in Kavalan ex-bourbon territory. Apples, guavas and vanilla, with a light lemony peat and a few white pepper. End: lengthy and really peppery this time. A tad biting. Wasabi? Feedback: unquestionably superb, I used to be about so as to add ‘after all’, however perhaps somewhat soulless. Not orgasmic malt whisky – however the value was a tad pornographic. Perhaps not a drop that the cognoscenti will bear in mind endlessly (and ever, and ever, and ever…) Oh I am certain you bought the image.
SGP:552 – 85 factors. |
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We could not go away the Japanese Video games with out having tried a Karuizawa, do not you agree?
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Karuizawa 1968/2010 (61.1%, OB, La Maison du Whisky, cask #6955, 210 bottles) 
A really costly bottle now (approach north of €20,000), which fits to point out, as soon as extra, that the worth of a whisky does not fairly lie in its packaging. Certainly I’ve tried this child earlier than however that was one other bottle and a very long time in the past. What’s extra, I did a web-based ‘masterclass’ (yeah proper, a tasting session) with this child at Whisky Reside Paris 2020 – there was additionally Springbank 12/100 Samaroli, Macallan 1962 and HP 1959; yeah a imply line-up – and I used to be having some leftovers. So let’s be critical, keep away from any types of evaporation and simply, as we generally say, kill it. Simply hope we’ve not bought that Israeli spyware and adware put in in our units. Kill it was a determine of speech, officer! Color: deep gold. Nostril: it might have additional improved after a very good ten years in glass, turning into a tad rounder and higher polished than it was once. What’s certain is that it’s some form of resin, eucalyptus and menthol bomb, with many sawn hardwoods singing within the again. Gorgeous notes of high-class gravy too. With water: decomposes into myriads of tiny natural and floral notes, plus something round umami and osmazome (meats and fat). Mouth (neat): extraordinarily heavy, oriental, mentholated, with many molecules ending with -ol and even a sense of high-ester Jamaican whisky, I imply, rum, with one thing glue-y and acetic, nearly acetone-y. The place was the muck pit at Karuizawa? With water: some tropical fruits chiming in, extra mints and herbs, heavy meads, ciders and beers… End: lengthy and definitely ‘oaky’, however there’s oak that tastes like oak from Residence Depot, and these oaks. Feedback: marvellously dry. Rating unchanged.
SGP:472 – 94 factors. |
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Sayonara and see you quickly, Japan!
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Karuizawa 1968/2010 (61.1%, OB, La Maison du Whisky, cask #6955, 210 bottles) |
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Yoichi ‘Sherry Wooden End’ (46%, OB, Japan, 3132 bottles, 2018) |
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Miyagikyo ‘Sherry Wooden End’ (46%, OB, Japan, 1890 bottles, 2018) |
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