Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky
by tptacek on Saturday October 26, 2019 @07:16PM
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I hear this said a lot, but is there an example you can think of of a mainstream Japanese whiskey --- a Nikka or Suntory, for instance --- that isn't 100% Japanese spirit? There's Akashi, but the controversy there is that it's not 100% whiskey, not that it isn't 100% Japanese.
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I think the trouble lies in the quantity of aged
whisky Japan is exporting. They did not have a lot of whisky production 25+ years and so it is simply not possible for them to be bottling this much whisky from 25 year old Japanese casks.
I hate to link to Bloomberg but this article is pretty good:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-19/that-expe...