Japanese

From Japan's Mars distillery, Iwai is named for Kiichiro Iwai, who was the mentor of Yamazaki's blender. This is a corn-based blend plus malt, aged in ex-bourbon barrels. Light caramel corn notes, apricot, peach. Pure and straightforward, no peat flavors.

The Helios distillery in subtropical Okinawa is best known for rum. Their super-limited foray into whiskey is aged in US white oak and finished in rum casks--why waste all that brown-sugary goodness? You'll find a rich, malty flavor, smoky, with flashes o

The sought-after Japanese super-blended: made from malt from Yamazaki and Hakushu distilleries, grain from Chita distillery, aged in 5 different cask types, and blended at Suntory. Soft, sweet, elegant, with orange blossom, baking spice, orange and aprico

Medium bodied and honeyed in style, this easy vanilla malt bursts with apple fruit and jasmine freshness but is made complex thanks to notes of candied orange peel, cinnamon and clove spice and balancing dusty cigarette ash and cedarwood dryness.