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Askashi Sake Brewery Company Tokiwa 'Honkaku Shochu' 25% 72cl
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It has a slight straw colour to it, which would indicate some wood maturation. The nose is quiet perfumed, light and a touch spirity with aromas of green tea, white flowers and hints of orange fruit. It has a grainy or starch undertone, which is not unpleasant... [more details]
£18.67 inc VAT
 
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Hakusu Distillery Suntory Hakushu 'Bourbon Barrel' 48.2%
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Tasting Note to follow! [more details]
£70.95 inc VAT
 
Hakusu Distillery Suntory Hakushu 'Heavily Peated' 48%
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American Oak Tasted: May 2012 The nose opens with some sweet, gristy barley. Wonderfully aromatic and leafy with hints of grass, hay, parsley(?) and a good dollop of dry-peat. The oak vanillins ably support and it develops a sort of Caol Ila-like freshness, ... [more details]
£71.15 inc VAT
 
Hakusu Distillery Suntory Hakushu 12 year old 43.5%
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Tasted: Mar 2011 A delicate and fragrant nose reminiscent of forest floors, bracken and ferns floats above a beautifully clean base of honeyed barley, gentle peat and citrus fruit. The oak sits pleasantly in the background and doesn’t impinge upon the overall... [more details]
£54.58 inc VAT
 
Hakusu Distillery Suntory Hakushu 18 year old 43%
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American Oak Bottle No: 023814 Tasted: May 2012 A lovely, burnished gold colour. The nose is rather mature and oily with some luscious, sweet, mature honey, barley along with a touch of peat. Quite foresty in character with hints of pine and bracken. With t... [more details]
£118.85 inc VAT
 
Nikka (Vatted Malt) Nikka From the Barrel 51.4% 50cl
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This must be the bargain of the century! This is a truly awesome nose. Very woody and so heavily spiced it’s untrue. The aromas are so dark and treacly with lashing of mature honey and liquorice. Being a vatting I would guess that there is a large dollop of ma... [more details]
£29.25 inc VAT
 
Nikka (Vatted Malt) Pure Malt Black  45% 50cl
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Clean, deeper, more intense aromas of darkly honied fruit, marzipan, smoky liquorice infused orange fruit and distant coastal bonfires? fantastic, very complex, balanced, polished and smooth. Quite oily on the palate with liquid honey fruit followed by waves o... [more details]
£33.62 inc VAT
 
Nikka (Vatted Malt) Pure Malt Red  45% 50cl
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Firm vanilla gives an oaky lead. Light and malty with lots of vanilla and a dash of honey. This is quite a light malt that appears heavier than it actually is with an almost imperceptible oiliness. (JM) [more details]
£33.62 inc VAT
 
Nikka (Vatted Malt) Pure Malt White 45% 50cl
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Clean, rich, fruity and very complex. Gentle peat mingles with pure apricot and mandarins in fruit juice, moist honey, gentle oak, sweet vanilla and earthy malt. Lovely balanced nose with layers of honied fruit and a granity freshness. Sweet entry with loads o... [more details]
£33.62 inc VAT
 
Nikka (Vatted Malt) Taketsuru Pure Malt 12 year old 43%
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Tasted: April 2012 A lovely, elegant nose of lightly leafy sherry with honeyed violets and musky white flowers, followed by chunky peat, malt and some mature sawdusty American oak. Wonderfully soft and supple aromas. The oak builds and hangs in there but the ... [more details]
£41.35 inc VAT
 
Nikka (Vatted Malt) Taketsuru Pure Malt 17 year old 43%
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Tasted: Sept 2011 A big, full on nose of dried fruit, walnuts, orange oil, crushed fruit, malt and a touch of sweet peat. Seriously complex and monumental with hints of aged honey. In saying that it does have some lighter moments but it truly is a monstrous n... [more details]
£77.35 inc VAT
 
Nikka (Vatted Malt) Taketsuru Pure Malt 21 year old 43%
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Tasted: April 2012 Gentle, restrained aromas of, sweet, mature, herbal (thyme, lavender), Oloroso sherry. Now the big American oak vanillins kick in and we could quite easily be in Kentucky! Slightly earthy with hints of violets, spice and a touch of salinity... [more details]
£99.85 inc VAT
 
Sendai Distillery Nikka Miyagikyou 10 year old 45%
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Bottling Code: 06J04A Tasted: Nov 2010 A touch high toned to begin with but this is followed by waves of lovely dried fruit, orange conserve and hints of gooseberry(?) and greengage(?). It has a gorgeous freshness to the sherry with plenty of coffee-spice no... [more details]
£61.46 inc VAT
 
Sendai Distillery Nikka Miyagikyou 12 year old 45%
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A lovely, clean and rich nose of earthy orange fruit, honey, along with dark fruit, liquorice, chocolate and a faint whiff of smoke. A very polished and classy nose with the creamy oak becoming more prevalent over time. The palate mirrors the nose, until the s... [more details]
£76.87 inc VAT
 
Sendai Distillery Nikka Miyagikyou 15 year old 45%
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A rich, deep nose of dried fruit, sherry spice, dunnage floors, marzipan, very mature honey, beeswax and hints of earthy peat and smoke. Incredible complexity with the dunnage floor aromas increasing over time. Soft, juicy and mature, slightly oily with a wond... [more details]
£89.51 inc VAT
 
Suntory (Blended Whisky) Suntory Hibiki 12 year old 43%
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Tasted: Aug 2011 The Hibiki is a blend comprising of malts from the Yamazaki and Hakushu distilleries along with a variety of grain whiskies. It was aged in what I would imagine was new American white oak casks (given the large amount of oak character, and fi... [more details]
£47.48 inc VAT
 
Suntory (Blended Whisky) Suntory Hibiki 17 Years Old 43%
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Tasted: Mar 2012 An edgy and mature nose, with plenty of dried fruit. Quite venerable with the cinnamon sprinkled fruit (plum, apple, raisin) taking on a stewed demeanour. Stunningly deep with hints of old sherry and grain but balanced by some oily malt. ... [more details]
£78.21 inc VAT
 
Yamazaki Distillery Suntory Yamazaki 12 year old 43%
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Re-Tasted: May 2012 An oily, marzipan coated sherry trifle nose with a good dollop of coconut custard! Beautiful balance between the sherry and the ferny, foresty, slightly minty frsh distillery character. The palate opens wityh some dense, herbal barley w... [more details]
£47.31 inc VAT
 
Yamazaki Distillery Suntory Yamazaki 18 year old 43%
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Tasted: Mar 2006 Rich aromas of sherry citrus fruit. Quite perfumed with honey, passion fruit, orange blossom and a delicate, soft spiciness. Excellent complexity. Soft on the palate, opening with pretty spicy, creamy apricot and honeyed fruit. The middle is ... [more details]
£120.71 inc VAT
 
Yoichi Distillery Nikka Yoichi 10 year old 45%
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Batch 18HO2D A beautiful nose of sugar coated honeydew melon backed by a lovely coastal intensity. It has a touch of Caol Ila freshness along with hints of fish, maple syrup sweet barley, herbal-peat and a demerara maltiness. The honey has a lovely maturity... [more details]
£58.16 inc VAT
 
Yoichi Distillery Nikka Yoichi 12 year old 45%
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Bottling Code 14J02B Tasted: Mar 2011 Clean, coastal sherried fruit aromas mingle with sweet dark malt and plenty of earthy peat. This has a lovely depth with layers of grape, salt, mature citrus fruit and peat. Later some hints of molasses and toasted wood ... [more details]
£76.87 inc VAT
 
Yoichi Distillery Nikka Yoichi 15 year old 45%
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A lovely mature nose of rich honey, beeswax, delicate peat and mature sherry. Wow this is amazingly complex, the aromas continue with malt, dried raisins/ sultanas, lashings of gingery spice and liquid orange fruit. The Palate opens with malty, mature honey, t... [more details]
£89.51 inc VAT
 
Yoichi Distillery Nikka Yoichi 20 year old 52%
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Quite a huge, high toned alcoholic nose of Oloroso sherry and ‘quelle horreur’ a stinky struck match heads sulphur note!!! What is this doing here?? And on the 2009 World Whisky of the Year??? Scandalous! Yes, there is a serious depth of cinnamon coated orange... [more details]
£205.40 inc VAT
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