Distilleries – Page 2 – Japan Whisky Press

September 25, 2026

Shinobu is Niigata Beer’s mizunara-finished whisky: what is in the bottle, how it fits Japan’s labeling rules, and its hot-spring…

September 24, 2026

Why Nishi Shuzo, a Kagoshima shochu house founded in 1845, built Ontake distillery, how it makes its spirit, the casks…

September 20, 2026

How a former bond trader and Kavalan’s ex-master blender built Komoro Distillery on Mount Asama, and why they chose not…

September 19, 2026

Rokkosan makes whisky 800 metres above Kobe in a converted company retreat. The story behind it, and which of its…

September 19, 2026

Kamiki built its name on cedar-finished blends sold worldwide. Its new Nara distillery aims for whisky distilled entirely in Soni…

September 17, 2026

Togouchi whisky ages in a disused Hiroshima railway tunnel. Why it is labelled World Blended, not Japanese whisky, and what…

September 14, 2026

Kawasaki was never built as a whisky distillery. It was a soybean-waste alcohol plant that quietly made grain whisky until…

September 13, 2026

Karuizawa stopped distilling in 2000 but was not fully closed until 2011 and demolished in 2016. Here is why, and…

September 5, 2026

A 19th-century Miyazaki shochu house built its whisky still in a remote mountain valley, grows its own barley, and ages…

September 1, 2026

Yamazaki is reservation-only in 2026, with guided tours run by lottery. How the system works, what the tour shows, and…

August 29, 2026

How a closed Saitama distillery, 400 rescued casks and a set of playing-card labels became the most valuable name in…

August 16, 2026

How Torii Shinjiro chose the Yamazaki site in 1923, why he brought in Taketsuru Masataka, and how the distillery still…

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