Dram data:
Distillery:Â Suntory
Bottler:Â original bottling
Distilled:Â –
Bottled:Â –
Age:Â NAS
Limitation:Â –
Cask: –
Alcohol: 40%
most likely chill filtered and coloured
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Tasting notes:
Colour:Â orange gold
This is, according to this source, Japan’s #1 whisky (Please correct me if that’s wrong…). Does that make it the Johnnie Walker Red Label of the Japanese whiskies? Easily quaffable, but nothing special? Only one way to find out!
The nose opens on the light and sweet side. No loud spirity grain, as I feared, that’s a good start! Honey, light citrus (or, rather, sweet orange), tinned tangerine, vanilla, some toffee, a whiff of pickled ginger and a bouquet of flowers you bring home to the missus when you need to apologise for something. Well, maybe a hint of bitterness, but that’s hard to pin down. Quite pleasant, actually, definitely not “old and aged”, but it’s got a quality and a moderate complexity to it, I have to say. Continue reading “Tasting: Suntory Kakubin 80 Proof NAS Blended Whisky”