Suntory Bringing Back Hakushu 12 Year Old Japanese Single Malt
Suntory Bringing Back Hakushu 12 Year Old Japanese Single Malt
Suntory recently announced that it would once again be producing bottles of Hakushu 12 Year, a single malt whisky that has been unavailable since June of 2018.
Hakushu was initially released in 1994 and was Suntory’s second single malt, following the release of their flagship whisky Yamazaki. But due to increased demand for Japanese whiskies a few years ago, the company put a stop to production of Hakushu.
Hakushu 12 Year (image via Suntory)
To produce the whisky, Hakushu aged non-peated malts in American oak and sherry casks, finishing it off with a peated malt aged in American oak casks. The result, according to Suntory, is a crisp, full-bodied sip with fragrances of jasmine and green apple. This current batch has apparently been aging for the past decade, waiting to be bottled.
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