Because frankly, it could mean a lot of different things: Watanabe being “ex-Asahi.” What exactly does that mean? Hard to take that one at face value. Watanabe” never gets a first name? Which Japanese whisky distillery has capacity to spare these days? Why is the company’s address in Osaka that of a virtual office? Why is there no trademark for the name 海洋 filed here in Japan? How come nobody in the Japanese-language Japanese whisky blogosphere has touched this stuff yet?Īnd the whole Mr. I don’t know about you, but I still had lots of unanswered questions.
The port of Osaka, where Kaiyō Whisky leaves Japan While it may be distilled in Japan, it’s not aged entirely in Japan, so they deliberately aren’t calling it Japanese whisky. DrinkHacker also provides a couple other nuggets of info. Kaiyō Whisky is then partially aged in Ariake-made Mizunara oak casks on a ship in international waters (海洋 is Japanese for ocean). At that point, it ceases to be a “Yoichi” or whatever single malt, preventing the buyer from calling it as such. There’s a detailed explanation of Kaiyō Whisky over at K&L Spirits Journal, but to summarize, some unnamed Japanese distillery sells casks of their whisky which have been teaspooned, meaning they contain a very small amount of whisky not from that same distillery. KAIYŌ WHISKY, ACCORDING TO GOOGLEįirst I turned to the rest of the internet for answers. The official website doesn’t provide more technical detail either. It’s shown to be Produced by KAIYO Trg Ltd, a company based in Hong Kong… not even Japan. Instead, it reads only “Japanese Mizunara Oak,” presumably a reference to the wood of the cask it was aged in. There are no age statements, no information about where the liquid was distilled, and you won’t even find the words “Japanese whisky” anywhere on the bottle. The bottle labels unfortunately answer almost none of those questions. Is it Japanese, is it worth the price, where is the whisky from? Many of you have asked me similar questions.
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