Togouchi 15 years old /43.8%/ 0.7l
- There is no doubt that the Togouchi brand breaks territorial barriers, classified as Japanese whisky it contains not even a drop of Japanese distillate in its formula.
Product description
Togouchi is a blended whisky that breaks territorial barriers, produced by companies located on three continents.
The whisky is offered by Chugoku Jozo, a company based on the outskirts of Hiroshima, which does not even have the equipment to distill it. It imports grain distillate from Canada, malt from Scotland, and they are blended on site and undergo additional maturation. This is done in a 361-meter-long abandoned railway tunnel, where the climate conditions are supposedly ideal - a temperature of 15ºC and humidity of 80%. The final product has a "Canadian-Scottish character and a Japanese soul". The company does not disclose which distilleries the components come from, only stating that its formula is 60% grain whisky, and the remaining 40% single malt.
Aroma: fruity with an earthy note, apples, mirabelle plums, pears, cinnamon buns, vanilla, green tea, traces of wet gravel, peat and oak.
Taste : mild, vanilla cream, milk chocolate, baked apples, gooseberries, lemongrass, cinnamon, a pinch of pepper, distant notes of nuts and peat.
Finish : quite long, vanilla, milk chocolate, walnuts, traces of peat and oak.