Akashi Meïsei Deluxe Sherry Cask Finish /50%/ 0.5l
- Akashi whisky is a product of Eigashima Distillery, founded 1888 to produce sake. The company obtained license to produce whisky in 1919 but it took more than four decades to get started.
Product description
Eigashima Shuzo recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of obtaining its whisky production license (1919), although it took another 40 years for the word to become flesh.
Eigashima Shuzo has been operating since 1888, in its current location, the town of Akashi, about 30 km from Kobe, since 1984. Its main sources of income are sake and shōchu, while whisky is produced seven months of the year. The Akashi Meïsei Deluxe presented here (meïsei means fame) is an equal blend of malt and grain distillates, which after maturing in American white oak barrels was finished for a year in sherry casks. Few today remember that Eigashima Shuzo was the first Japanese licensed whisky producer (Shinjiro Torii built the Yamazaki Distillery four years later).
Nose: very mild, honey, vanilla, milk chocolate, orange peel, raisins, plums, cinnamon, a touch of cloves and subtle notes of nuts and oak.
Taste: pleasantly balanced, dried plums and cherries, raisins, milk chocolate, almond croissants, allspice, cinnamon, a touch of lemongrass and oak.
Finish: medium long, with mild notes of dried fruit, chocolate, roasted nuts, a pinch of lemon pepper and oak.