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came back from Japan a couple of weeks ago with a pretty decent haul. my previous experience with japanese whisky here was with the usual NAS stuff which i thought was pretty rubbish and didn't understand the hype. Tried the aged stuff out there and mind blown. hard to track down even out there and pretty pricey. highly recommend going to the actual distilleries as you can try all the age statements in their lines for cheaps. did yamazaki and nikka distilleries and assorted whisky bars to try everything i could and then pissed off the mrs by traipsing around as many liquor stores as shrines! had a really interesting convo with the owner of one of the whisky bars we drank at who was saying how sad he and others he knew were about the distilleries flooding the market with nas at inflated prices to feed the demand. he thinks its going to give japanese whisky a bad name once people wise up and realise they're not drinking great stuff for silly money. there seems to be a knock on trend of new distilleries getting into other spirits like gin and rum instead, which is really exciting. tasted some amazing japanese rums but couldn't find a single bottle in any of the shops.
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