FD: Article on how the Japanese Distillers have won both the Single Malt and Blended Scot Awards this year. I have never tasted this product, so you are left to your own vices. I gave up whiskey for politics in 2008, donating my money to campaigns and not drinking it. Even if you are a coffee and carbo fiend like me... you will find this article interesting. My Scottish ancestry is just as mixed as these well-blended whiskies. By the way, Single Malts are just as blended as the Blended Brands ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/21/japan-whisky-industry
While Scottish distilleries are free to buy in whiskies from other makers to orchestrate the desired blend, their Japanese counterparts do everything in-house. This arrangement, with a variable climate and reverence for traditional distilling methods, is turning this relative newcomer into a whisky powerhouse. Suntory, which controls 70% of the domestic market, has more than 100 types of unblended whisky at its disposal.
"Although some Japanese people are the last to believe in the quality of their own products, their malt whiskies are as good as any in the world," said Chris Bunting, an expatriate Yorkshireman who blogs about the country's whisky at Nonjatta. "No one can say that Japan isn't making the genuine article."
Man behind the malt
Suntory and Nikka have Masataka Taketsuru to thank for their success. He fell in love with whisky while studying chemistry at Glasgow University in 1918, trained as a blender in Campbelltown and Speyside, then returned to Japan. Taketsuru was headhunted by Suntory's founder, Shinjiro Torii, to launch the firm's Yamazaki distillery in 1923. Ten years later he and his Scottish wife, Rita, opened the Yoichi distillery. He died, aged 85, in 1979.
MORE ON THE HISTORY: http://www.allbusiness.com/asia/japan/610359-1.html
MORE ON THIS THEME http://www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/japanese.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/21/japan-whisky-industry
While Scottish distilleries are free to buy in whiskies from other makers to orchestrate the desired blend, their Japanese counterparts do everything in-house. This arrangement, with a variable climate and reverence for traditional distilling methods, is turning this relative newcomer into a whisky powerhouse. Suntory, which controls 70% of the domestic market, has more than 100 types of unblended whisky at its disposal.
"Although some Japanese people are the last to believe in the quality of their own products, their malt whiskies are as good as any in the world," said Chris Bunting, an expatriate Yorkshireman who blogs about the country's whisky at Nonjatta. "No one can say that Japan isn't making the genuine article."
Man behind the malt
Suntory and Nikka have Masataka Taketsuru to thank for their success. He fell in love with whisky while studying chemistry at Glasgow University in 1918, trained as a blender in Campbelltown and Speyside, then returned to Japan. Taketsuru was headhunted by Suntory's founder, Shinjiro Torii, to launch the firm's Yamazaki distillery in 1923. Ten years later he and his Scottish wife, Rita, opened the Yoichi distillery. He died, aged 85, in 1979.
MORE ON THE HISTORY: http://www.allbusiness.com/asia/japan/610359-1.html
MORE ON THIS THEME http://www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/japanese.htm
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