Hibiki over the years have introduced several NAS bottlings as a replacement to some of their well established aged statements, largely owing to a reduction in existing reserves. The Master’s Select being one, was one of their earlier releases, introduced at Travel Retail sometime towards the end of 2015 just after their Harmony release. Both…
Month: Jul 2020
Review : Compass Box The Story of the Spaniard
I hadn’t made my monthly stops for a while now due to covid restrictions with most of my existing reserves depleting, some just fumes. This led to a less than regular run to the local liquor store, with the desire to pick up something unusual though not necessarily unique. And what caught my eye was…
Review : Nikka Taketsuru Pure Malt Whisky
The Nikka Taketsuru Pure Malt is a tribute to Japan’s whisky God, Masataka Takesuru who helped build the distillery and much of the Japanese whisky landscape we know of today. This pure malt, aka vatted malt or modern day ‘blended malt’ is a marriage of pot stilled malts from its Yoichi and Miyagikyo distilleries. The…
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