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 spent five years in a red wine barrel no. 61891, and was bottled at 50% abv.
Nose: ripe grapes, red berries, cocoa powder, orange peel, white pepper, cumin, honeyed nuts, notes of vanilla and oak.
Palate : milk chocolate, raisins, hazelnuts, plums, blackberries, roasted chestnuts, cinnamon, nutmeg, notes of candied ginger and oak.
Finish: medium long, with notes of red berries, milk chocolate, marzipan, cinnamon and oak.