Japanese Whisky

Japanese whisky is a barley-led grain spirit built on the Scotch model but pursued with a distinctive ideal of delicacy, clarity and balance. It is typically pale amber, clean and aromatic — floral and honeyed, with orchard fruit, a soft malt sweetness and, where present, a gentle restrained smoke rather than the heavy peat of an Islay malt. Prized above all for precise, almost perfumer-like blending, it leans elegant and finely poised where many Scotches lean robust.