Nonjatta: Serge's blend reviews

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Serge Valentin of Whiskyfun.com has a couple of interesting reviews up of top-end Hibiki and Taketsurus.

4 comments:

dramtastic said...: Excellent review of the show Stefen! Hopefully I'll actually make it next year(with a Bond #1 membership in hand).
Looks like another wallet busting month as I'm a fan of Mars Whisky especially their American White Oak matured stuff. Reviewed a couple from the distillery only Malt Gallery series yesterday which I'll post soon.
Liking the new labels for the single casks as well(they always have excellent presentation for such a small concern).; May 7, 2012 at 5:49 AM
dramtastic said...: P.s Mr Broom needs to learn to cross his legs when wearing a skirt. Very unlady like...... : ); May 7, 2012 at 5:52 AM
dramtastic said...: pps. You will see I reviewed the 1999 Karuizawa Cask #867(with the official distillery label) here on nonjatta and it cost me Y7300 or AUD60 or GBP56 at Liquors Hasegawa in Tokyo(should have bought a few by the looks of it). This puts the price in Japan pretty much in line with the TIBS bottlings.; May 7, 2012 at 6:16 AM
Stefan said...: Thanks for your kind words.
Regarding the Karuizawa cask #867. That's really interesting. Here's the UK link:
http://www.thewhiskybarrel.com/pr/1246/karuizawa-12-year-old-sherry-cask-867
When did you buy it from Liquors Hasegawa, and do they still have some in stock? I haven't seen any Karuizawa in their Tokyo station shop for years, so very curious to hear how you managed to get hold of that as such a low price. I just checked your review and the label is clearly different. The bottle you have is an OB. As I wrote before, Karuizawa distillery used to bottle small batches (a couple of cases) of selected casks for sale in their distillery shop (and some Japanese liquor shops), so I think the bottle you have is one from the days before No. 1 Drinks bought the entire stock. Interesting difference in price though, don't you think so?; May 7, 2012 at 8:20 AM

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Nonjatta is maintained by a team of Japanese whisky enthusiasts living both inside and outside Japan. It was founded in 2007 by Chris Bunting.

The current regular contributors includes:

Stefan - A composer, teacher and whisky enthusiast based in Tokyo. Stefan operates his own blog at Tokyo Whisky Hub, which covers the entire Tokyo whisky scene encompassing Scotch and other global whiskies, but cross posts entries directly related to Japanese whisky on Nonjatta.

Ruben of WhiskyNotes - Supplying Nonjatta with in-depth tasting notes whilst keeping an eye on the reception of Japanese whiskies on the European front.

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AshDLS - A Japanese whisky fan currently living in Australia. He has spent time in Japan and has a talent for uncovering rare bottlings.

Ulf Buxrud - Author and long time fan of Japanese whisky. He published the first book in English devoted entirely to Japanese whisky in 2008.

Nicholas Coldicott - Writer for the Japan Times and numerous other publications. Knows more about the whole Japanese drinks scene than anyone I know.

John Hawkins - used to live in Japan and had some great tips on Tokyo's whisky bars at the time.

Daniel Mick - An English teacher in Gifu, Japan. Nonjatta introduction.

Takeshi Mogi - An incredible gentleman who has been extremely helpful in my faltering attempts to get my head around Japanese whisky. He kept the Japanese Whisky Web (now no longer online, but it was the original Japanese Whisky website in English) . I talk about him more here.

Hasse Nilsson - Chairman of the Växjö Malt Whisky Society, one of the most active and knowledgeable whisky clubs in the world.

Nick Sikorski - Nick is a Japanese specialist and is a key figure at La Maison du Whisky of Paris, one of the two main importers pioneering Japanese whisky in Europe.

Taylor Smisson - Author of the now discontinued "Malt Drinkers Diary".

Serge Valentin - Author of the awesome Whiskyfun.com and uncrowned king of whisky blogging. Nonjatta introduction with explanation of system.

Bert Vuik - Dutch whisky enthusiast with a towering knowledge and mountainous collection of Japanese whisky (oh, and Ardbegs and Glen Gariochs too!)

Dr Whisky - Used to maintain the informative blog of the same name.

Brian "Dramtastic" - Contributed tasting comments to Nonjatta.

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