This gift box contains three different single malts from Japan: The Matsui The Peated, The Matsui Sakura Cask, and the award winning The Matsui Mizunara Cask, who has just been named Japanese Single Malt of the Year in Jim Murray’s Whiskey Bible 2020. They are all Three tapped at 48% alcohol and without added caramel color. You can see taste notes under the individual whiskeies.
Kurayoshi Distillery is located at the foot of Mt. Daisen in Tottori, Japan. The place is chosen because of the good spring water that you believe in Kurayoshi is one of the most essential parts of a good whiskey, but also because of the climate. The temperature swings a lot, and it causes a greater interaction between the spirits and the dish – therefore, it believes that the whiskey “matures” faster than for example in Scotland. You use a wide variety of kinds of dishes, for example by the Japanese oak type, Mizunara, but also the fade of, for example, cherry wood, vineyards and sherryfade.
The distiller is owned by the company Matsui Shuzo, which has made Shochu since 1910! The license for whiskey production, they only got in 2015, in the wake of a huge whiskey room in Japan, and in 2018 Matsui got another license for a distillery in Baba, Tottori.
In the 2020 edition of Jim Murray’s “whiskey Bible”, The Matsui Mizunara Cask was named Japanese Single Malt of the Year!
