Meiyo 17 Year is marketed as a Single Grain Japanese Whisky for the US Market. Along with this review, we explore the origins of this and many self-labeled Japanese whiskies that are taking advantage of lax regulations.
Japan
-
-
Today, I’m starting a new series called the Single Malt Savvy Classic Review Series. I did a lot of whisky reviews before I started this website and my backlog of…
-
Me and Japanese whisky. Japanese whisky and me. It’s a strained relationship these days to say the least. We used to get along fine back in the day. I enjoyed…
-
Hanyu is one of those distilleries that really intrigues me if for no other reason than it really got caught in the middle of the Japanese whisky firestorm. I think…
-
In my last review, I took a look at a Karuizawa that was made up of vatted casks from the final year or two of production that resulted in a…
-
What’s the deal with Karuizawa? Karuizawa, better known as “Japanese Gold” in my house, is that awesome Japanese distillery that closed in 2000. Sometime around 2012, some folks on the…