Category: News
Japanese whisky news, reported from Japanese-language primary sources.
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Yamaga’s November festival debuts a heavily peated cask
Kumamoto’s Yamaga Distillery holds its fifth festival on November 21, 2026, launching BB232, its first heavily peated whisky, in 600…
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Snow Peak and Nagahama release two campfire world blends
Snow Peak’s OKIBI and TAKIBI World Blended Whisky 2026, made with Nagahama distillery, go on sale at its Japan stores…
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Kiuchi joins a seaside Oarai distillery opening in 2027
Isonohama, a joint venture with Hitachino Nest maker Kiuchi Shuzo, will revive an old Oarai sake brewery in 2027 and…
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Shizuoka distillery tours now have a 10-language audio guide
Shizuoka distillery’s tour now plays on visitors’ phones in 10 languages, including English, synced to the guide and free beyond…
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Mars Komagatake adds a limited Peated × Sherry single malt
Hombo Shuzo releases 12,000 bottles of Single Malt Komagatake Peated × Sherry at 50% ABV in Japan in early October,…
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Tokyu Hotels to pour Yakushima-aged Mars blended malt
YA Goto, a Hombo Shuzo blended malt of Tsunuki and Komagatake aged on Yakushima, goes on sale at 15 Tokyu…
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Yamazaki Refill Spanish Oak arrives in Japan on November 24
Suntory’s limited Yamazaki Refill Spanish Oak, made only from refill Spanish oak casks, goes on sale in Japan on November…
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Niigata Kameda and Shindo swap malt for twin releases
Niigata Kameda and Fukuoka’s Shindo traded bourbon-cask malt and each vatted its own whisky. Both 700ml bottles arrive in October…
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Nozawa Onsen’s first single malt goes on sale November 6
Nozawa Onsen Distillery’s debut Barrel Hall Series single malt, made from Australian malt, arrives November 6 at 47% ABV for…
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Cask & Forest bottles single casks from Nagahama and Hishida
Tokyo bottler Cask & Forest releases a tunnel-aged, heavily peated Nagahama malt and a roasted-barley Hishida grain whisky on September…
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Bar Shinkai opens a fourth Tokyo bar near Shiba Park
Bar Shinkai, known for its Japanese whisky reviews, opens a 300-bottle bar in Shiba Koen, Tokyo, near Tokyo Tower, on…
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Yamazaki 18 headlines Tokyo’s Japan Spirits Festival
Japan Spirits Festival 2026 runs Sept. 26-27 in Tokyo, free admission, pouring ISC-winning Yamazaki 18 and rare craft and rice…