Tag: Karuizawa
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Karuizawa Whisky launches a members-only cask owners’ club
The new Karuizawa distillery formed Owners Club 1955 for its cask buyers, with a 10-year maturation term. Prices and overseas…
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Komoro distillery: the Nagano heir to Karuizawa
How a former bond trader and Kavalan’s ex-master blender built Komoro Distillery on Mount Asama, and why they chose not…
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Kawasaki: Japan’s lost grain whisky distillery
Kawasaki was never built as a whisky distillery. It was a soybean-waste alcohol plant that quietly made grain whisky until…
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Karuizawa distillery: the ghost maker still setting records
Karuizawa stopped distilling in 2000 but was not fully closed until 2011 and demolished in 2016. Here is why, and…
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Buying Japanese whisky at auction without getting burned
Real auction houses versus risky marketplaces, how Suntory fights counterfeits, and what a bottle actually costs after fees and shipping.
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Is Japanese whisky still a good investment in 2026?
Japanese whisky secondary prices fell hard after 2022. What the correction means for collectors, flippers and ordinary buyers in 2026.