{"title":"The Kaikyõ Distillery","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"hatozaki-8-year-omakase-pure-malt-japanese-whisky","title":"Hatozaki 8 Year Omakase Pure Malt Japanese Whisky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIntroducing the first edition of our “Omakase Collection” – a Japanese cooking concept where our ‘chef’ aka our Master Blender decides on the recipe to serve his audience. For this Pure Malt Edition – our Master Distiller has chosen to blend single malts of at least 5-6 years of age in small batches of at least 10 casks. This blend is aged for 8 years in American oak and traditional mizunara casks (the japanese white oak is from hokkaido and tohoku forests). The end result is a rich \u0026amp; spicy whisky that is uncolored and unchilled filtered to preserve all the whisky’s character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Yonezawa family’s experimentation with distilling started over a century ago, in 1917, and has been part of their legacy ever since. In the build-up to their celebration of 100 years of spirit production, the company decided to replace their old stills with new copper twin pot-stills made by the famous Scottish company Forsyth’s. The new facility has been named The Kaikyo Distillery after the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge that lies in front of the distillery. 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Aged for 15 years and finished in rare Japanese Mizunara oak, this expression represents the master blender’s finest work—an elegant balance of tradition, innovation, and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"431\" data-end=\"760\"\u003eEach bottle begins with 12 years of maturation in new charred American oak before spending its final 3 years in native Mizunara oak casks. 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