NV Yamazaki Golden Promise 48% (Tsukuriwake 2024)
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Score 92/100 · Whisky Advocate, Dec 2024
Lots of floral notes, vanilla creaminess, malted biscuits, and orange cake aromas. It’s elegant, verging on delicate, but a pretty whisky nevertheless. Clean and pure on the palate, with Golden Delicious apple, honey, star fruit, nectarine, apricot, clove, pepper, chocolate-dipped shortbread, and orange. It grows richer the longer it’s held in the mouth, with flavors of egg tarts and vanilla custard. The oily, mouth-coating finish shows a distinct citrus creaminess.
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Yamazaki
Yamazaki is arguably the most well-known Japanese whisky. It was the first distillery built in Japan, and has produced some of the finest whiskies in the world. Shinjiro Torii founded the Yamazaki distillery near Kyoto in 1923.