Product description
Shinobu Distillery is a project of Ken Usami, master brewer and founder of Niigata Beer Company about 20 years ago.
In 2017, Usami obtained a license to produce whisky and began construction of the Shinobu distillery in Niigata Prefecture, known in its native Japan as the “Three Treasures Prefecture” – snow, rice and sake. We don’t know the formula for the blend presented here, we know that its components were not distilled in Shinobu, most likely coming (at least in part) from outside Japan. We only know that it is a blend of malt and grain distillates aged in bourbon and sherry barrels and finished in Japanese Mizunara oak barrels. In 2019, this whisky won a gold medal at the San Francisco World Spirit Competition.
Nose: soft, sweet cereals, buttered toast, roasted nuts, coconut biscuits, cooked pears, lemon peel, a hint of mint, hay and oak notes.
Palate : mild, slightly buttery, vanilla, apples, pears, candied lemons, sultanas, milk chocolate, white pepper, cloves and a trace of oak.
Finish : medium long, with notes of butter cookies, vanilla, candied fruit and a trace of sandalwood.