Hakushu 12 Year Old

Japanese Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling 70cl / 43%

The superb Hakushu 12-year-old, a great whisky from Yamazaki's fantastic sister distillery in the Suntory stable.

Hakushu's whisky was just getting into its stride on this side of the world back in the early 2010s when the Japanese whisky drought set in and the distillery's 12-year-old promptly disappeared from European shelves - a tragedy as Hakushu's reputation and recognition were skyrocketing with western whisky fans at the time.

Tasting this fantastic Japanese single malt whisky today, one can only marvel at the clarity of the delicious grassy, meadowy, lightly peated honeyed exotic fruit flavours - each precisely delineated but beautifully integrated into a complex, dangerously moreish palate.

The return of Hakushu 12-year-old to our shelves, however briefly, is a great moment, and fingers crossed this will be a much more readily available dram in the near future. A quintessential Japanese single malt, Hakushu 12-year-old remains a buy-on-sight whisky.

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