Editor reviews are provided by professional editors who evaluate a blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Design, and Writing Style.
User rating is calculated as an average of the user ratings. If this rating differs significantly from our editor's rating our editors may re-evaluate this blog.
Highball billboards in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
There is a really good article in Metropolis Magazine by Nicholas Coldicott telling the story of "how Japan's least fashionable drink came back from the grave": the whisky highball.
As Nicholas says, the...
Japanese whisky fans Tapani Kuusela and Johan Hofvander have bottled their own Karuizawa 14-year-old single cask whisky (cask 5024) and expect the bottles to arrive in Sweden shortly. It was distilled back in 1995 and matured and aged in a wine cask....
Japanese whisky is world class but, of course, it is only one part of Japan's extraordinary alcohol culture. I have just realised that, because of a very fortuitous accident of timing, visitors to Japan for the Whisky Magazine Live! festival next year...
Nikka whisky's Taketsuru 21 year old pure malt whisky won the overall trophy for the whisky category at the 2009 International Spirits Challenge in London on Wednesday. The Taketsuru 21 adds the honour to the "World's Best Blended Malt" prize it won at...
My copy of the Malt Whisky Yearbook 2010 arrived yesterday. The section on Japanese whiskies has been revised slightly but is on pretty much the same basic template as last year's section, which still makes it perhaps the most reliable, succinct source...
