The expression has a nose of green apple, mature pear and acacia honey with a hint of vanilla, alongside a ‘velvety and mild’ palate with butterscotch notes. The brand said the use of the large casks, approximately 480 litres, allows the liquid to mature slowly, resulting in a whisky with ‘complexity and vibrance’. The range includes Yamazaki Puncheon, comprised of malt whiskies aged in American oak puncheons. And in doing so, we unveil what truly makes Yamazaki single malt whisky the authority of Japanese whisky.” 2022 collection “The 2022 Yamazaki Limited Edition Tsukuriwake Selection honours the fact that greatness comes from diversity. “What excited me most about this launch is that just one year before the 100th anniversary of Suntory whisky, we can finally share the full story behind our tsukuriwake way of whisky making, which was born from the founding house of Japanese whisky,” said Suntory’s fifth-generation chief blender Shinji Fukuyo. The brand’s story dates back to 1923 when Shinjiro Torii built Japan’s first malt distillery in Yamazaki. The brand said it is unique in its use of multiple strengths of non-peated and peated grain varieties, two types of wash backs, eight pairs of pot stills in various shapes and maturation in four different oak casks (French, Spanish, Japanese and American) with three varying cask sizes in American oak. The new four-strong line pays tribute to ‘tsukuriwake’, a Japanese word which means ‘artisanship through a diversity of making’. Yamazaki has been made using the same four components since its launch in 1984. The new 2022 Yamazaki Limited Edition Tsukuriwake Selection is said to introduce the foundation pillars of the single malt brand – puncheon, peated malt, Spanish oak and mizunara. The Yamazaki 2022 releases honour the brand’s ‘tsukuriwake’ way of whisky making The House of Suntory has revealed a limited edition Yamazaki Japanese single malt collection, including a mizunara cask-matured whisky.
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