Akashi 5 Years Old Red Wine Cask 50cl 50°

Distillery : White Oak / Country : Japan / Reference: : 23269

White Oak offers a limited edition from Japan with this Akashi 5 year old Red Wine Cask whisky.

From the reserves of the distillery, this rarity has benefited from aging in barrels of Cognac for four and a half years before being finally refined in casks of red wine. The Japanese Single Malt was then bottled raw at 50 ° without cold filtration and without colouring.

Akashi 5 years old Red Wine Cask has a rich and refined style with fruity, tannic and woody notes.

145,00 € tax incl.

soit 290,00 € / litre

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Features
Volume0.5 L
ABV50 °
TypeSingle malt
DistilleryWhite Oak
CountryJapan
Age5 years
MaturationCognac & Wine
PeatNon Peated
CharacteristicsCask Strength & Non-Chill Filtered
PackagingCase
Reference:23269

The history - if not the legend - of Japanese whiskey starts with Masataka Taketsuru, founding father of Japanese whisky, who embarked on a two-year journey to Scotland after World War One to learn the art of distilling.


When he returned, Shijiro Torii, founder of Suntory, relied on Taketsuru’s knowledge to build the Yamazaki distillery in 1924. A few years later, Taketsuru took off and established his own company, Nikka, still recognized today for the quality of its malts. Japanese whisky became very popular after World War Two with the renewed prosperity. Most Japanese executives and managers of companies based on the US model started enjoying whisky as part of an after-work convention destined to foster the company’s team spirit.


Taketsuru was not the first to distil whisky, as White Oak offered older whiskies. Located in Akashi, on the coast of the interior sea of Seto, the White Oak distillery obtained its license to distil whisky and other spirits as early as 1919. The distillery is today owned by the Eigashima Company, one of the oldest sake producers in Japan, established in 1679. It became one of the most famous distiller of the traditional Japanese alcohol, and the first to bottle sake in 1899.

Colour: pink amber.

Nose: it is greedy with notes of nectarine, white flowers, brown sugar and raspberry.

Palate: intense with aromas borrowed from red wine, wood, red fruits that blend with the rich and subtle distillery style.

Final: it is generous and ends smoothly.