Japanese whisky is now subject to rules that clearly define what is in the bottle, although at this point it’s really an ...

SHIZUOKA CITY, Japan, Nov 21 (Reuters) - In a still fuelled by cedar from nearby forests, Shizuoka Distillery, a leader in Japan's new wave of independent whisky makers, crafts its spirits to tap ...

SAITAMA (Kyodo) -- Yudai Matsuzaki's idea to produce craft gin in a nation where "shochu" spirits and whiskey rule the day ...

Hiroshi Suzuki described Scotland as an ‘important’ trading partner as he toured a distillery with First Minister John ...

Some of the best Japanese whiskies you can find today diverge completely from the tradition of single malts and blends. Instead, they're based on older distilled Japanese spirits traditions, such ...

Kiyokawa was founded in 2019, part of a growing number of new distilleries in Japan. For many years, there were basically two main companies that shared the whisky market there: Suntory and Nikka.

Japanese whiskey began as a dedicated effort to recreate Scotch whisky, with early innovators working hard to reproduce the Scottish process in almost every detail, including opening a distillery ...

In my opinion, Japanese whisky is better than Scotch. It’s a bold statement and might sound sacrilegious to some. After all, Scotch whisky has been around for centuries, and the Scottish have ...