Hatozaki Omakase Pure Malt Whisky

Introducing the first edition of our “Omakase Collection”, a Japanese cooking concept where our ‘chef’ aka our Master
Blender decides on the recipe to serve his audience. For this Pure Malt Edition, a 100% malt craft whisky our Master Distiller has chosen to blend single malts of at least 5-6 years of age in small batches of at least 10 casks.

This blend is aged for 8 years in American oak and traditional mizunara casks (the japanese white oak is from hokkaido and tohoku forests). The end result is a rich & spicy whisky that is uncolored and unchilled filtered to preserve all the whisky’s character.

This one has plenty to say for itself: sweet and spicy mizunara characteristics with aromas of baked apple, heather honey, golden sultana, marzipan, dried orange peel, and stone fruits. Created by Kimio Yonezawa, Kaikyo Distillery’s master distiller and blender, there is a burst of fragrant spice disrupting the flavors of red apple and golden syrup, relinquishing control to candied orange, apricot, and crystalized ginger.