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Hokkaido WHISKY&SPIRITS FEST 2024[Held on August 2, 2024]

Hokkaido WHISKY&SPIRITS FEST 2024 tickets now on sale. Includes an outline of the festival, including original bottles only available at the festival and a "Master Class," a paid tasting seminar featuring experts in the whiskey industry as lecturers.
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[2024 Edition] Five whisky chocolates for Valentine’s Day gifts

For your Valentine's Day gift, coffee tea, or alcoholic beverages. In this issue, we introduce recommended whisky chocolates made with Japanese whisky.
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World Whiskies Awards 2024 – Japan Preliminary Round Results and List of Winning Products

The results of the category winners (Japanese qualifiers) of the World Whisky Awards 2024 have been announced. A large number of whiskies from whisky distilleries all over Japan were submitted, and many products won titles in each category. Full list of award-winning Japanese whisky products.
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[YOIYO Series 13th] Sake Ganache (Asaka Distillery)

The 13th in the series is a ganache type chocolate from the Sasanogawa Shuzo, Asaka Distillery, priced at 1,640 yen (tax included). The limited edition whisky, a blend of five barrels carefully selected for YOIYO, is made from bourbon barrels of unpasteurized Asaka whisky.
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“Yamazaki Aged 25 Years” and “Hibiki 30 Years Old” won at the International Spirits Challenge 2023. Other GOLD and above award-winning products are also introduced.

Suntory's "Yamazaki Aged 25 Years" won the "Supreme Champion Spirit" award, the highest award in all categories, for the first time at the "ISC", a world-class liquor competition. Many other Japanese whiskies won awards. A list of Gold and above award-winning products are introduced here.
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YOIYO chocolate 12th [ASAKA Distillery] Original Whisky ASAKA

YOIYO" is a "Japanese craft sake chocolate" or so-called "whisky bonbon" sold by Lotte Co. The wonderful and particular taste of Japanese whisky and the thoughts of the whisky maker and the chocolate maker are packed into a single piece of chocolate.The package design of each product has a fashionable design printed with the regional scenery of each distillery and distillation equipment.
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[YouTube video #12] Yamazaki 18 Years Old (Characteristics, history, tour report, taste, aroma, price)

As we told you at the end of the last YouTube video of the Akkeshi Single Malt "Keichitsu", this time, we will be presenting "Single Malt Yamazaki 18 Years Old", a tour report of the Yamazaki Distillery, Shinjiro Torii's life story, and much more.
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[ISC2023] International Spirits Challenge 2023 Award Winners Announced

The 28th International Spirits Competition was held in London this year. More than 2,200 spirits were entered from about 70 countries around the world, and among them, we would like to introduce 38 Japanese whiskies that won the Double Gold and Gold awards.
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[Youtube Video #10] The Latest Trends in Japanese Whisky (Second half): A Review of Whiskey Distilleries in Japan

The second part of the 10th edition of the "Japanese Whisky Dictionary" Youtube video distribution! The year 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Japanese whisky! So, as a review of the ever-increasing number of Japanese whisky distilleries, we would like to present "The Latest Trends of Japanese Whisky (Second half): A Review of Whisky Distilleries in Japan".
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[Youtube Video #10] The Latest Trends in Japanese Whisky (Part 1): A Review of Whisky Distilleries in Japan

"Japanese Whisky Dictionary" Youtube video distribution, the 10th edition!This year, 2023, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Japanese whisky! So, as a review of the ever-increasing number of Japanese whisky distilleries, we would like to present "The Latest Trends in Japanese Whisky (Part 1): A Review of Whisky Distilleries in Japan".