Product description
White Oak Distillery is located in the town of Akashi in Hyogo Prefecture.
It was built in 1984 by Eigashima Shuzo, a company that obtained a license to distill whisky in 1919, four years before the Yamazaki distillery was built. Eigashima Shuzo's main source of income is still sake and shōchu, and the distillery has virtually no stock of aged whisky, so it focuses more on experiments with maturation in different types of barrels. The whisky presented here was aged in cognac barrels, then finished for 10 months in a red wine barrel no. 61695, and bottled at 50% abv.
Nose: red berries and grapes, caramel, marzipan, milk chocolate, toffee, yeast cake, white pepper, walnuts and oak.
Palate: chocolate-covered cherries, orange peel, dried figs, cappuccino, almond croissant, white pepper and some oak tannins.
Finish: medium long, with notes of summer berries, milk chocolate, marzipan, white pepper and oak tannins.