{"title":"Whisky","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"akkeshi-daikan-blended-japanese-whisky","title":"Akkeshi Daikan Blended Japanese Whisky","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Daikan Blended Japanese Whisky is a blended whisky from the Akkeshi distillery in eastern Hokkaido.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreater cold, the last of the twenty-four solar terms of the traditional Japanese calendar, gives this bottling its name, and the depth of winter suits the place. Akkeshi sits on Hokkaido's Pacific coast, where sea fog rolls in through summer and the bay freezes hard in the cold months. The distillery was built in 2016 with Islay in mind. Barley is grown and bought locally, peat is cut nearby, and a share of the spirit matures in Mizunara casks coopered from Hokkaido oak. Blends in this series bring malt together with grain whisky, and blender Keiichi Toita builds each one to read as a season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe house peat is present but restrained, sitting under malt sweetness, orchard fruit and a coastal saltiness. Try it neat at room temperature first, then with a few drops of water. It makes a clean, smoky highball with plenty of hard ice and good soda.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Hokkaido \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287990431803,"sku":"20804-700","price":511.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/20804-700.png?v=1790124391"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-distillery-boshu-single-malt-japanese-whisky","title":"Akkeshi Distillery Boshu Single Malt Japanese Whisky","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Distillery Boshu Single Malt Japanese Whisky is a peated single malt from eastern Hokkaido.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrain in ear, the solar term this whisky takes its name from, falls in early June, when barley heads fill out. That is a fitting reference for a distillery which has put its own barley at the centre of the project: the team oversees growing and harvest on Hokkaido land near the site, and supplements it with imported malt when the peating level calls for it. The town itself is a fishing and oyster port on the Pacific edge of the island, wrapped in fog through summer and frozen hard in winter, and that swing works on casks in the warehouse. A portion of the stock goes into Mizunara, cut from Hokkaido oak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeat smoke arrives first, dry and faintly medicinal, then malt, lemon and a wisp of sea air. Drink it neat in a small glass, no colder than the room. A splash of water opens the malt sweetness, and it holds together well over one large cube.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Hokkaido \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287990726715,"sku":"19944-700","price":529.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/19944-700.png?v=1790124460"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-distillery-foundations-1-single-malt","title":"Akkeshi Distillery Foundations #1 Single Malt","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Distillery Foundations #1 Single Malt is a 200ml early release from the distillery's first years of production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Foundations bottlings were how a young Hokkaido distillery showed its working. Released in small format while the stock was still very young, they let drinkers follow the spirit's development year by year instead of waiting a decade for a first single malt. Distilling began in 2016 on the Pacific coast of eastern Hokkaido, in a town better known for oysters, with the cold, foggy, maritime conditions that drew comparisons to Islay from the outset. Local barley, locally cut peat and Mizunara casks from Hokkaido oak were all part of the plan from the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYoung, bright and forthright, with peat smoke over malt, green apple and a saline finish. Small pours are the way to approach it, neat and at room temperature. Keep water to a few drops. At this age it is better tasted carefully than mixed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Hokkaido \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287991054395,"sku":"16359-200","price":170.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/16359-200.png?v=1790124516"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-distillery-foundations-2-bourbon-barrel-single-malt-spirit","title":"Akkeshi Distillery Foundations #2 Bourbon Barrel Single Malt Spirit","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Distillery Foundations #2 Bourbon Barrel Single Malt Spirit is a 200ml release of young single malt matured in ex-bourbon wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is labelled spirit because it had not yet spent the three years in cask that the word whisky requires. This was the second of the Foundations releases and the first to put a single cask type in the title. Ex-bourbon barrels are the workhorse of the industry for good reason: American oak gives vanilla, coconut and a sweet edge that suits peated malt well. The warehouses sit on the eastern Pacific coast of Hokkaido, where summer fog and a deep winter freeze make for slow, uneven maturation. Small bottles like this one were the distillery's way of releasing work in progress honestly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVanilla and toasted malt lead, with peat smoke behind and a clean, spirity lift to close. Room temperature, neat, in a small glass. There is enough sweetness to sit in a highball with plenty of ice if you want to stretch it out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Hokkaido \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287991283771,"sku":"16435-200","price":173.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/16435-200.png?v=1790124514"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-distillery-foundations-3-mizunara-cask-single-malt-spirit","title":"Akkeshi Distillery Foundations #3 Mizunara Cask Single Malt Spirit","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Distillery Foundations #3 Mizunara Cask Single Malt Spirit is a 200ml release of young Akkeshi single malt matured in Japanese oak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMizunara has given Japanese whisky much of its reputation, lending incense, sandalwood and coconut, and it is notoriously difficult wood to work with: porous, crooked and prone to leaking. Akkeshi has the advantage of growing on the doorstep, since Hokkaido is Mizunara country and the casks are sourced and coopered on the island. Released before the spirit reached three years, and so labelled spirit and not whisky, this was the third in the Foundations run and an early look at how the distillery's peated malt would take to that wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncense and sandalwood sit over malt and a dry, coastal smoke, with the wood already making itself felt. Serve neat, at room temperature, in a small measure. Water flattens the Mizunara aromatics, so go easy, and leave this one out of cocktails entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Hokkaido \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287991480379,"sku":"17135-200","price":213.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/17135-200.png?v=1790124512"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-distillery-foundations-4-malt-and-grain-spirit","title":"Akkeshi Distillery Foundations #4 Malt \u0026 Grain Spirit","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Distillery Foundations #4 Malt \u0026amp; Grain Spirit is a 200ml blend of young malt and grain spirit from eastern Hokkaido.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the fourth of these small releases the distillery had begun to look at blending, bringing grain spirit alongside its own peated malt to see how the two sat together. That practice runs right through the range today, where the blended bottlings pair Hokkaido malt with grain stock bought as new make and matured in-house. Keiichi Toita, who blends them, has a long career in Japanese whisky behind him, and the house approach leans savoury and coastal, with peat treated as a structural element and not a special effect. Under three years old at bottling, hence spirit on the label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLighter and sweeter than the single malts, with cereal, soft toffee and a thread of smoke. Neat at room temperature shows it best, though this is also the one in the series worth putting in a highball, long and very cold.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Hokkaido \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287991676987,"sku":"18538-200","price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/18538-200.png?v=1790124514"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-distillery-kanro-single-malt-japanese-whisky","title":"Akkeshi Distillery Kanro Single Malt Japanese Whisky","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Distillery Kanro Single Malt Japanese Whisky is a peated Hokkaido single malt from the distillery's 24 Sekki series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCold dew is the English for the solar term behind the name, an October marker when mornings on the Hokkaido coast begin to bite. The 24 Sekki series takes its names from the traditional Japanese division of the year into twenty-four short seasons, and each release is built to carry something of the term it belongs to. Distilling here has gone on since 2016, in a fishing town on the island's Pacific edge, using barley grown on Hokkaido, peat cut locally and a mix of ex-bourbon, sherry and Mizunara wood. The maritime setting is not decoration: fog, salt air and hard winters all show up in the glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDry peat, malt loaf and a citrus lift, finishing salty and long. Pour it neat at room temperature and give it a minute in the glass. A single drop of water lengthens it. If you are mixing, keep it to a smoky highball with hard ice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Hokkaido \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287991873595,"sku":"19236-700","price":581.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/19236-700.png?v=1790124459"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-distillery-sarorunkamuy-2020","title":"Akkeshi Distillery Sarorunkamuy 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Distillery Sarorunkamuy is a 200ml single malt named for the red-crowned crane of the Akkeshi marshes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ainu called the red-crowned crane sarurunkamuy, and the bird winters in the wetlands behind the distillery, so the choice of name says a good deal about how this operation sees itself. Local first, in other words. The site lies on the eastern Pacific coast of Hokkaido, hemmed in by marshland, bay and fog, and that has been leaned into from the first year of production in 2016: barley from the island, peat cut nearby, Mizunara casks coopered from Hokkaido oak. Early bottlings came out in small format while the spirit was still young, and this is one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeat and brine up front, then malt, dried citrus and a faintly herbal finish. Neat, room temperature, small pour. Water is not needed here. If you want something longer, keep it simple with cold soda and a lot of ice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Hokkaido \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287992660027,"sku":"18171-200","price":211.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/18171-200.png?v=1790124516"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-distillery-usui-blended-japanese-whisky","title":"Akkeshi Distillery Usui Blended Japanese Whisky","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Distillery Usui Blended Japanese Whisky is a blended whisky named for the solar term that marks the turn from snow to rain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRain water falls in late February, when snow gives way to rain and the ground begins to let go of winter, which on the Hokkaido coast is a slow and grudging business. Blends in this series put the distillery's own peated malt together with grain whisky matured on site, aiming for the coastal house signature in a lighter frame. The location is an unlikely one for whisky by Japanese standards: a small fishing and oyster port facing the Pacific, cold and foggy, with barley grown on the island and peat cut close by.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSofter than the single malts, with malt sweetness, pear and toffee, and smoke drifting along behind. Room temperature and neat is a fair start, but this is a blend made for length. Build it as a highball with plenty of ice and cold soda.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Hokkaido \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287992823867,"sku":"19943-700","price":340.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/19943-700.png?v=1790124459"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-ritto-single-malt-japanese-whisky","title":"Akkeshi Ritto Single Malt Japanese Whisky","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Ritto Single Malt Japanese Whisky is a peated single malt named for the solar term that opens winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe beginning of winter in the old Japanese calendar arrives in early November, and in eastern Hokkaido that means the first serious cold. The annual swing here, from humid fogbound summers to a long deep freeze, is one of the more interesting things about maturing whisky on this coast, and it works on casks differently to the mild damp of Scotland. Ex-bourbon barrels hold the bulk of the stock, with sherry, wine casks and Hokkaido Mizunara used for seasoning and complexity. The malt is peated, some of it from barley grown on the island under the distillery's own eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmoke here is dry and ashy, wrapped around malt, orchard fruit and a salty close. Neat at room temperature, in a tulip glass if you have one. It holds its shape over a large cube, and a smoky highball is never a bad idea with this house style.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Hokkaido \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287992987707,"sku":"20805-700","price":705.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/20805-700.png?v=1790124391"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-seimei-single-malt-japanese-whisky","title":"Akkeshi Seimei Single Malt Japanese Whisky","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Seimei Single Malt Japanese Whisky is a high-strength peated single malt from eastern Hokkaido.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe name abbreviates a phrase meaning clean, bright and lively, and it belongs to a mid-April solar term, when grass and flowers come up and the year starts moving again. The final blend was being assembled at exactly that point. Two barleys went in: the distillery's own Hokkaido crop, grown and harvested under the team's supervision, and Scottish Concerto malted to fifty parts per million of phenol. Seven cask types were drawn on, peated and unpeated, roughly seventy per cent ex-bourbon with Mizunara, sherry and wine casks filling out the rest. The average age of the components is four years, and this is the seventh release in the series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBright and high-toned for a peated whisky: lemon, green herb and malt with smoke sitting behind, and real heat at 55 per cent. Neat first, then a few drops of water, which pulls the spring character forward. Good with grilled oily fish, or on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Hokkaido \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287993217083,"sku":"21518-700","price":483.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/21518-700.png?v=1790124306"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-shosho-blended-japanese-whisky","title":"Akkeshi Shosho Blended Japanese Whisky","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Shosho Blended Japanese Whisky is a blended whisky named for the solar term at the end of summer's heat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe end of the heat falls in late August, though on the Hokkaido coast the real marker is the lifting of the sea fog that sits over Akkeshi Bay all summer. The town is an oyster port first and a whisky town second, and the distillery has made a virtue of that: cold, damp, salty and a long way from anywhere. For the blends, grain spirit is bought as new make and matured in the distillery's own warehouses alongside the peated Hokkaido malt, so every component ages in one place and one climate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGentle smoke over caramel, cereal and baked apple, with the saline snap of the house on the close. Neat suits it, no ice. It is also the sort of blend that makes an excellent highball: tall glass, hard ice, cold soda, a twist of lemon if you like.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Hokkaido \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287993413691,"sku":"20806-700","price":458.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/20806-700.png?v=1790124392"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-taisetsu-single-malt-japanese-whisky","title":"Akkeshi Taisetsu Single Malt Japanese Whisky","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Taisetsu Single Malt Japanese Whisky is a lightly peated Hokkaido single malt released as a winter instalment of the distillery's 24 Sekki series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeavy snow is the English for the twenty-first of Japan's twenty-four solar terms, and it covers the stretch of the year that takes in the winter solstice and sends bears into hibernation, which is where the animal on the label comes from. Each release in the series is blended to mirror the character of its season, and the styles and cask origins move around a good deal from one to the next. This is among the more restrained peatings the distillery has put out in recent years, which lets the wood and the malt do more of the talking. Bottled at 55 per cent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToffee, orange peel and malted milk on the nose, with peat tucked in behind, then a round, loud palate moving through pineapple and dried mango to chocolate, mint and white pepper. Neat at room temperature, water only if you want it. Try it after dinner with dark chocolate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Saitama \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287993610299,"sku":"21774-700","price":617.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/21774-700.png?v=1790124307"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-taisho-blended-whisky","title":"Akkeshi Taisho Blended Whisky","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Taisho Blended Whisky is a peated blend from eastern Hokkaido bottled at 48 per cent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat heat, the twelfth of the twenty-four solar terms, is the hottest stretch of the Japanese year and a season of festivals and fireworks. The indigo label takes its cue from the yukata worn through those months. Production details are kept close, but the backbone is malt made entirely from Hokkaido barley and matured in a mix of casks including Mizunara and ex-bourbon. To that the team adds imported grain spirit, bought as new make and aged from the start in the distillery's own warehouses. Nine separate components went into the blend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSavoury, saline peat sits at the front, with spun sugar, tropical fruit, deep citrus, burnt sage and green almond coming through behind it, and a long, spicy, salty close. It shifts constantly in the glass, so give it time and skip the water. Room temperature, neat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Saitama \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287993806907,"sku":"21775-700","price":441.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/21775-700.png?v=1790124307"},{"product_id":"akkeshi-usui-blended-japanese-whisky-2021","title":"Akkeshi Usui Blended Japanese Whisky 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkkeshi Usui Blended Japanese Whisky is an early release in the Hokkaido distillery's 24 Sekki run, pairing its own peated malt with grain whisky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-four releases is a long commitment, and that is what the Sekki series amounts to: one whisky for each of the short seasons the traditional Japanese calendar divides the year into. Keiichi Toita, who blends them, has worked in Japanese whisky for decades, and his signature here is a peat that reads savoury and coastal instead of sweet. This was one of the earlier entries, from a distillery that only began filling casks in 2016, so the components are young by any measure. That is part of the appeal, because the raw materials are unusually local: island barley, peat cut nearby, Hokkaido Mizunara.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLight on its feet, with cereal sweetness, poached pear and a smoky thread that builds slowly. Chill it down in a highball with plenty of ice, or take it neat at room temperature. It handles food better than most blends, so try it with yakitori.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Hokkaido \/ Akkeshi Distillery","offer_id":44287994036283,"sku":"20803-700","price":379.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/20803-700.png?v=1790124390"},{"product_id":"chichibu-ichiro-s-malt-and-grain-limited-edition","title":"Chichibu Ichiro's Malt and Grain Limited Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eChichibu Ichiro's Malt and Grain Limited Edition is a world blended whisky bottled at 48% ABV behind a blue label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIchiro Akuto built the Chichibu distillery in Saitama in 2008, and he can also reach into family stocks far older than that — his grandfather's Hanyu distillery, closed and sold at the turn of the century. This is the senior sibling to the standard Malt and Grain, drawing on the same spread of Scotch, Canadian rye, American bourbon, Irish whiskey and Chichibu's own single malt, but with a higher proportion of malt and a core of very old Akuto stock, some of it up to forty years. Every component is aged at least ten years before vatting, and the marriage happens in Mizunara oak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePour it neat in a tulip glass at room temperature, with water on the side. The grain sits back while apple pie and spice, lemon curd and oats give way to toffee, malt and a whisper of salty smoke. It will make a very fine Old Fashioned if you can bear to.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Saitama \/ Chichibu","offer_id":44288076775483,"sku":"16085-700","price":344.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/16085-700.png?v=1790124514"},{"product_id":"chichibu-ichiro-s-malt-double-distilleries-pure-malt-whisky","title":"Chichibu Ichiro's Malt Double Distilleries Pure Malt Whisky","description":"\u003cp\u003eChichibu Ichiro's Malt Double Distilleries Pure Malt Whisky is a vatting of Hanyu and Chichibu single malts at 46% ABV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo generations and two distilleries meet in this bottle. Hanyu was built by Ichiro Akuto's grandfather and sold in 2000 to a Kyoto shochu producer; Akuto managed to rescue just 400 casks of mature whisky from its vaults before the stills were lost. Chichibu, in Saitama, is his own distillery, opened in 2008 and now the most closely watched small operation in Japan. The Hanyu material was traditionally matured in sherry hogsheads while the younger Chichibu distillate saw Japanese oak, and the two are vatted together in Mizunara at Chichibu. Non-chill filtered, with no added colouring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe delicate sweetness and punchy fruit of the Chichibu malt dovetails with the barley-rich, structured Hanyu. Drink it neat at room temperature with a few drops of water; ice flattens the fruit. Far too scarce to bury in a highball.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Saitama \/ Chichibu","offer_id":44288076873787,"sku":"15856-700","price":344.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/15856-700.png?v=1790124517"},{"product_id":"chichibu-ichiro-s-malt-mizunara-wood-reserve-pure-malt-whisky","title":"Chichibu Ichiro's Malt Mizunara Wood Reserve Pure Malt Whisky","description":"\u003cp\u003eChichibu Ichiro's Malt Mizunara Wood Reserve is a pure malt raised start to finish in Japanese oak, bottled at 46% ABV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMizunara is rare, expensive and awkward to work with — it leaks, it warps, it takes years to season — and Ichiro Akuto accepts all of it for the aromatics, which Dave Broom characterises as sandalwood, cedar and aloeswood with coconut and a leafy edge. Chichibu's washbacks are built from the same timber, and this bottling has spent its whole life in it: fermentation, maturation and vatting. A partial solera keeps the older material refreshed with younger single malt, which builds complexity while holding the release reasonably consistent from batch to batch. Non-chill filtered and uncoloured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePour it neat into a copita and give it a few minutes; the Mizunara character asks for air more than water. Sandalwood and incense sit over orchard fruit and soft spice. Leave this one out of cocktails — the oak signature vanishes under anything else.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Saitama \/ Chichibu","offer_id":44288077070395,"sku":"15858-700","price":344.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/15858-700.png?v=1790124516"},{"product_id":"chichibu-ichiro-s-malt-the-peated-whisky-2022","title":"Chichibu Ichiro's Malt The Peated Whisky 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eChichibu Ichiro's Malt The Peated is a cask-strength peated single malt from Saitama, bottled at 53.5% ABV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNearly everything that comes off the stills at Chichibu is unpeated and made from Norfolk barley; peated new make is distilled in a short window in the final month before the distillery shuts for maintenance, which is why these releases appear so seldom. This one followed a four-year gap, the previous bottling having marked the distillery's tenth anniversary in 2018. Maturation ran five to seven years in ex-bourbon barrels and it goes into bottle at cask strength, undiluted. Ichiro Akuto founded the distillery in 2008, and demand has outrun supply every year since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt this strength water helps: start neat, then add drops until the smoke settles back into the malt. The peat is restrained — earthy, faintly medicinal — over bourbon-cask vanilla. An after-dinner dram, and mixing it would be a waste.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Saitama \/ Chichibu","offer_id":44288077889595,"sku":"21522-700","price":572.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/21522-700.png?v=1790124303"},{"product_id":"chichibu-ichiro-s-malt-wine-wood-reserve","title":"Chichibu Ichiro's Malt Wine Wood Reserve","description":"\u003cp\u003eChichibu Ichiro's Malt Wine Wood Reserve is a pure malt matured in wine-seasoned French oak, bottled at 46.5% ABV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the other Leaf Series bottlings, this brings together single malts from Hanyu and Chichibu. The Hanyu portion matured in French oak that had previously held Japanese red wine; the Chichibu portion spent its time in Ovum casks — 20-hectolitre egg-shaped French oak vessels shaped by Taransaud in the Charente. Wine-cask finishes are notoriously hard to land, and plenty of distillers steer clear of them altogether, which is part of why this bottling has the reputation it does. The colour is deep and entirely natural.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA vinous nose with nut, berry and spice, then a spicy palate balanced by sweetness and a close tinged with dark chocolate and faint smoke. Serve neat at room temperature in a tulip glass. Water is optional here; ice is not recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Saitama \/ Chichibu","offer_id":44288078250043,"sku":"15857-700","price":344.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/15857-700.png?v=1790124516"},{"product_id":"chichibu-ichiro-s-the-peated-10th-anniversary","title":"Chichibu Ichiro's The Peated 10th Anniversary","description":"\u003cp\u003eChichibu Ichiro's The Peated 10th Anniversary is a limited peated single malt marking ten years of the Saitama distillery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIchiro Akuto fired up the stills at Chichibu in 2008, the first new malt distillery built in Japan in decades, and this bottling was released to mark the tenth year. Peated spirit accounts for only a small share of production and is made in a short annual window, so peated releases under the Ichiro's Malt label are always limited. Akuto's reputation rests on small-batch bottlings, Mizunara oak and an unusually hands-on operation, with malting, fermentation, distillation and cask work all happening on one modest site.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eServe neat in a tulip glass and add water sparingly. Peated Chichibu leans earthy and faintly maritime, a long way from the tarry Islay register. 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Proportions are guarded, though it is believed to run about 30 per cent malt to 70 per cent grain, mostly unpeated, averaging ten years with the oldest stocks reaching twenty. The sourced whiskies age at home before two to three years more at Chichibu, then marry in Mizunara tanks with a portion of the previous batch retained.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRye leads the nose, with sherry-cask spice and a touch of peat behind it; the palate turns warm and spicy with banana bread, apricot, orange and peach, and the finish carries a gentle medicinal tang. Neat, or over one large cube. It also makes an excellent highball.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Saitama \/ Chichibu","offer_id":44288078610491,"sku":"15855-700","price":164.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/15855-700.png?v=1790124517"},{"product_id":"equipo-navazos-la-bota-104-malt-whisky-single-cask-bota-no","title":"Equipo Navazos La Bota 104 Malt Whisky Single Cask, Bota NO","description":"\u003cp\u003eEquipo Navazos La Bota 104 is a single-cask Spanish malt whisky finished in an old Oloroso butt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBottling individual butts out of the sherry soleras of Jerez, before they vanished into a blend, was the original idea behind this numbered series, and the same thinking has been carried into spirits. This malt is entirely Spanish: barley grown and distilled in Castilla la Vieja, sister cask to the Bota 66 bottled some years earlier. It is around sixteen years old, the last twelve of them in a single vessel that had previously held an excellent old dry Oloroso. The butt was emptied completely for this bottling. No cold filtration, and, following an unbreakable rule here, no added colour, sweetening or flavouring. Bottled in 2020 at 46 per cent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSherry-cask influence runs right through it: walnut, dried fig, orange peel and a dry, saline finish with roasted malt underneath. Drink it neat at room temperature in a small glass, with a few drops of water if you want to open it up. It does not belong in a mixer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Jerez de la Frontera \/ Equipo Navazos","offer_id":44288109576251,"sku":"20934-700","price":225.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/20934-700.png?v=1790124383"},{"product_id":"equipo-navazos-la-bota-105-grain-whisky-single-cask-bota-no","title":"Equipo Navazos La Bota 105 Grain Whisky Single Cask, Bota NO","description":"\u003cp\u003eEquipo Navazos La Bota 105 is a single-cask Spanish grain whisky aged in a sherry solera butt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrain whisky pot-distilled in Castilla la Vieja is the starting point, from the sister cask to La Bota 89, and it carries around sixteen years, twelve of them in one solera cask that had spent its previous life holding very old dry Oloroso. That is an unusually long finish in an unusually good cask, and it shows in how integrated the spirit is. Bottled in 2020 at 46 per cent. Because it comes from one butt that will not be refilled the same way, the release cannot be repeated, which is the whole premise of the series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTobacco leaf and roasted grain first, with a gentle peaty smoke behind them, then a honeyed sweetness that edges towards bourbon without the vanilla. The close is spicy, saline and seamless. Sip it neat, without ice, in a tulip glass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Jerez de la Frontera \/ Equipo Navazos","offer_id":44288109740091,"sku":"20935-700","price":195.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/20935-700.png?v=1790124381"},{"product_id":"equipo-navazos-la-bota-88-whisky-de-malta-overseas","title":"Equipo Navazos La Bota 88 Whisky De Malta, Overseas","description":"\u003cp\u003eEquipo Navazos La Bota 88 is a Scottish single malt aged in a Jerez sherry cask.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe word standing in for a distillery name on this label is Overseas, and Navazos will say only that the source is a prestigious Scottish distillery; the identity has never been made public and probably never will be. The spirit is reckoned to be around twelve years old, the last seven passed in one cask taken from a solera of very old dry Oloroso, the same treatment given to the Bota 89 grain whisky. Bottled in 2018 at 46 per cent. A Scottish malt finishing its life in an Andalusian bodega is a strange route, and the results justify it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoached pear, roasted malt, coffee bean and crème brûlée on the nose, then a sweet, intensely fruited palate with florals, butterscotch and a good seam of peat smoke, closing on wild honey and iodine. At 46 per cent it takes a drop of water happily. Neat, no ice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Jerez de la Frontera \/ Equipo Navazos","offer_id":44288110362683,"sku":"18005-700","price":216.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/18005-700.png?v=1790124512"},{"product_id":"equipo-navazos-la-bota-89-whisky-grain-bota-no","title":"Equipo Navazos La Bota 89 Whisky Grain, Bota NO","description":"\u003cp\u003eEquipo Navazos La Bota 89 is a single-cask Spanish grain whisky bottled at 46 per cent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpain making grain whisky at all surprises people; doing it in Castilla la Vieja, in the north, and then sending it south to finish in Jerez is stranger still. This one is the sister cask to the Bota 66 malt shipped a few years earlier. The new make was grown and pot-distilled in Castilla la Vieja, and of its estimated fourteen years, the last seven were in a single solera cask that had held very old dry Oloroso. Bottled in 2018. One cask, one filling, no repeat, which is how the whole numbered series works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoasted grain and pipe tobacco with a soft, smoky edge, then honeyed sweetness that reads almost like bourbon without the vanillin, and a spicy, saline, fully knitted finish. Pour it neat in a small glass at room temperature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Jerez de la Frontera \/ Equipo Navazos","offer_id":44288110526523,"sku":"18006-700","price":188.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/18006-700.png?v=1790124510"},{"product_id":"kanosuke-distillery-single-malt-japanese-whisky-1st-edition-2021","title":"Kanosuke Distillery Single Malt Japanese Whisky 1st Edition 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eKanosuke Distillery Single Malt Japanese Whisky 1st Edition is a single malt from the Kagoshima coast in southern Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHioki, on the Kagoshima coast at the southern end of Kyushu, is an unlikely spot for a malt distillery: the air here carries sea spray for much of the year. The operation belongs to Komasa Jyozo, a shochu house with well over a century behind it, and the still house went into operation in 2017 with three bespoke pot stills, each built with a different neck shape and lyne arm angle so the team can blend distillates of different weights. Casks that previously held the family's barrel-aged shochu are used alongside more conventional wood. This was the first single malt the distillery released.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRich and rounded, with dried fruit, honey and a warm spiciness that Kanosuke's malts are known for. Best neat in a tulip glass with a few drops of water to open it, or over one large clear cube if the evening is warm. Not one for mixing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Kagoshima \/ Kanosuke Distillery","offer_id":44288139591739,"sku":"20808-700","price":476.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/20808-700.png?v=1790124392"},{"product_id":"kanosuke-distillery-single-malt-japanese-whisky-2021","title":"Kanosuke Distillery Single Malt Japanese Whisky 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eKanosuke Distillery Single Malt Japanese Whisky is a coastal Japanese single malt from Kagoshima Prefecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaturation conditions at Hioki are unusual. The warehouses stand on the shore of the East China Sea, mild through summer and wild and windy the rest of the year, and the salt air works its way into the wood. Behind the whisky is Komasa Jyozo, a long-established Kagoshima shochu producer that added a malt distillery in 2017 and equipped it with three pot stills of differing neck and lyne arm geometry. Ex-shochu casks are part of the maturation regime here, which is not something you find anywhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmooth and spicy, with orchard fruit, toffee and a faintly saline edge on the finish. Drink it neat at room temperature, or add a little water to release the aromatics. 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Three bespoke pot stills, each configured differently in the neck and lyne arm, give the blending team a range of distillate characters to work from, and the warehouses sit close enough to the water that sea spray is part of the maturation environment. Ex-shochu casks feature in the wood mix.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLayered and gently spiced, with dried apricot, malt biscuit and a soft smoky warmth through the finish. Serve neat, at room temperature, in a tulip glass; a few drops of water will lift the aromatics. Keep the ice to one large cube if you use it at all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Kagoshima \/ Kanosuke Distillery","offer_id":44288140148795,"sku":"20809-700","price":476.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/20809-700.png?v=1790124389"},{"product_id":"kanosuke-limited-edition-single-malt-japanese-whisky-2022","title":"Kanosuke Limited Edition Single Malt Japanese Whisky 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eKanosuke Limited Edition Single Malt Japanese Whisky is a cask-strength, unpeated Japanese single malt bottled at 59 per cent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePosition matters here. The distillery stands in the deep south of Japan, right on the sea, where summers are mild and the rest of the year is wild and windy enough that the air inside is regularly laced with sea spray. Three bespoke pot stills, each with a different neck shape and lyne arm angle, give the malts their combination of smoothness and spice. This third Limited Edition is entirely unpeated malt, distilled between 2017 and 2019 across all three stills, then bottled at cask strength in June 2022. Unlike the previous year's two releases, sherry casks make up roughly 30 per cent of this blend, with the balance from mellow ex-shochu barrels and a smaller share of ex-bourbon wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConcentrated and warming, with dried fig, dark honey, clove and a spicy, saline finish that the strength drives hard. Neat first, then a few drops of water to unpack it. One large cube is acceptable. Do not bury this in a cocktail.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ Kagoshima \/ Kanosuke Distillery","offer_id":44288140279867,"sku":"21521-700","price":458.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/21521-700.png?v=1790124303"},{"product_id":"kings-county-7-year-single-barrel-straight-bourbon-whiskey","title":"Kings County 7-Year Single Barrel Straight Bourbon Whiskey","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County 7-Year Single Barrel Straight Bourbon Whiskey is a single-barrel bourbon bottled at 107 proof after seven years in wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis may well be the oldest age-stated bourbon distilled outside traditional bourbon country, and it is certainly the oldest age-stated pot-distilled bourbon. It was laid down in July 2013 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard distillery and spent its whole life in the upstairs ageing room, a glasshouse-like space where summers push the spirit hard into the wood. The angels took 34 per cent of the barrel over those seven years, which is a heavy toll and explains the concentration. Kings County was founded in 2010 by Colin Spoelman and David Haskell and works with organic New York corn and English malted barley on Scottish-made copper pot stills.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeep and resinous, with dark caramel, dried cherry, tobacco leaf and toasted oak, the 107 proof carrying it long. Drink it neat in a heavy glass, with a couple of drops of water if you want the fruit to come forward. 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The house recipe leans hard on malted barley alongside organic New York corn, with no wheat or rye, and the spirit is double distilled in copper pot stills in the manner of a Scotch distillery instead of the column stills used across most of Kentucky. Everything happens in the Paymaster Building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where Colin Spoelman and David Haskell set up in 2012. At 63.8 per cent this is the full, undiluted house style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDense and sweet-edged, with burnt sugar, baked fruit, malt and a long peppery heat. Neat is the point, in a small measure, and a few drops of water will open it considerably. 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Batch 14, bottled in 2021, carries a four-year age statement while including components up to six and a half years old. Colin Spoelman points out that this is where pot distillation shows its hand: narrow head cuts, 72 per cent in this case, strip the harsh early compounds and leave a finer spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBurnt brown sugar, marzipan, caramel and vanilla wafer with black pepper, then an oak-driven palate of wild cherry, clove and leather. Bold but smooth. 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Founder Colin Spoelman calls it a \"superior, all-purpose spirit\" and adds, with a grin, that \"this isn't the Blended Bourbon our parents drank\". Every contributing spirit type is listed on the label with its age and barrel format, which is rare transparency. Batch 1 arrives in a new blue label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmooth and approachable, with honey, caramel, citrus-tinged vanilla and a satisfying rye spiciness underneath. Bright enough to sip neat over a cube and robust enough to hold its shape in a Manhattan, a Whiskey Sour or a highball with soda and a lemon twist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288141262907,"sku":"21151-750","price":176.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/21151-750.png?v=1790124385"},{"product_id":"kings-county-bottled-in-bond-bourbon","title":"Kings County Bottled in Bond Bourbon","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Bottled in Bond Bourbon is a 100-proof Brooklyn bourbon meeting the American bonded standard, in a half-size bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBottled in Bond is the strictest label in American whiskey: distilled, aged and bottled at a single distillery from barrels filled in one season, at least four years old and bottled at precisely 100 proof. Kings County was among the first craft distillers to take it on. The house mash leans on organic New York corn with a high proportion of English malted barley and no wheat or rye at all, and the spirit is double distilled in copper pot stills in the Paymaster Building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The bonded designation means the bottle is a straight snapshot of one season's work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRounded and classic, with caramel, baked apple, malt loaf and a firm oak spine, the 100 proof giving it grip without heat. Neat or over one large cube. It makes a textbook Old Fashioned, and the smaller bottle is a good way in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288141361211,"sku":"14829-375","price":118.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/14829-375.png?v=1790124518"},{"product_id":"kings-county-bottled-in-bond-bourbon-spring-2018","title":"Kings County Bottled in Bond Bourbon Spring 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Bottled in Bond Bourbon Spring is a bonded Brooklyn bourbon from a single 2018 distilling season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery bonded release is a snapshot: barrels filled during one season at one distillery, aged a minimum of four years, bottled at 100 proof with no cutting or blending across years. That transparency is the appeal, and Kings County was among the earliest craft distillers to work within the rules. The mash bill uses organic New York corn with a high malted-barley component and no wheat or rye, double distilled in copper pot stills in the Paymaster Building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Small-barrel maturation gives the whiskey more wood influence per year than a standard Kentucky format would.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToffee, dried apricot, malt and a warm baking-spice finish, tightly knit at bonded strength. Neat is best, with a drop of water if you want it looser. It stands up in a Manhattan or a Boulevardier without disappearing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288141557819,"sku":"15923-375","price":106.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/15923-375.png?v=1790124515"},{"product_id":"kings-county-bottled-in-bond-bourbon-spring-2022","title":"Kings County Bottled in Bond Bourbon Spring 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Bottled in Bond Bourbon Spring is a six-and-a-half-year-old bonded bourbon bottled at 100 proof.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBottled in Bond is arguably the highest class of American whiskey, a federal designation covering spirits distilled, aged and bottled entirely at one distillery from barrels filled in a single season, aged at least four years and bottled at precisely 100 proof. Kings County was one of the very first craft distillers to put one out. The autumn 2015 distilling season yielded 23 bourbon barrels of 53 gallons each, and just eight of them made the cut for Batch 11, which went into bottle in the spring of 2022. At six and a half years old it was the distillery's oldest bonded blend to that point, and the first to use standard-format barrels exclusively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLayered and composed, with toffee, spiced apple, dried stone fruit and sustained oak, the 100 proof holding it all together. Neat in a small glass, with water on the side. An Old Fashioned made with this needs very little sugar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288142442555,"sku":"19552-750","price":234.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/19552-750.png?v=1790124459"},{"product_id":"kings-county-bottled-in-bond-bourbon-batch-12-7yr","title":"Kings County Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon Batch #12 - 7Yr","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon Batch #12 is a seven-year-old bonded bourbon from a single 2015 distilling season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-three barrels came out of the autumn 2015 season, each holding 53 gallons, and only six of them were chosen for Batch 12, bottled in spring 2023. That makes this the oldest bonded blend the distillery has released, at a little over seven years, and the first built exclusively from standard-format barrels. The bonded designation requires a single distillery, a single season, four years minimum and exactly 100 proof, so what reaches the glass is an unvarnished record of how Kings County was making whiskey seven years earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpiced apple, toffee brittle, dried apricot and lanolin on a richly layered nose, then salted caramel, pomegranate and balanced oak across the palate. Serve neat at room temperature. Water opens it; ice closes it. Skip the cocktail and give this one your attention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288142606395,"sku":"22953-750","price":298.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/22953-750.png?v=1790124222"},{"product_id":"kings-county-chocolate-moonshine","title":"Kings County Chocolate Moonshine","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Chocolate Moonshine is an unaged corn whiskey infused with cacao, here in a 200ml bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base is the distillery's moonshine, an unaged whiskey of organic New York corn with a high proportion of malted barley, double distilled in copper pot stills with very narrow cuts. Cacao husks are then steeped in the spirit, which pulls the colour and the cocoa character across without turning the whiskey into a cream liqueur. Kings County has built a habit of poking at overlooked categories, and flavoured moonshine, usually the province of novelty bottles, is one of them. This is the serious version, made from good grain in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark cocoa and toasted grain on the nose, with the corn sweetness underneath and a clean finish. Drink it cold and neat as a digestif, or use it in an Espresso Martini or a whiskey and cream shortcut. The 200ml bottle is plenty for experimenting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288142803003,"sku":"13951-200","price":47.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/13951-200.png?v=1790124517"},{"product_id":"kings-county-chocolate-moonshine-375","title":"Kings County Chocolate Moonshine","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Chocolate Moonshine is a cacao-infused unaged whiskey from Brooklyn, in a 375ml bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCacao husks do the work. They are steeped in the distillery's unaged corn whiskey, which itself comes from organic New York corn and a generous slug of malted barley, double distilled in copper pot stills at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The result sits somewhere between a whiskey and a cocktail ingredient, and it is nothing like the sugary flavoured spirits the category is usually associated with. Founders Colin Spoelman and David Haskell have a track record of taking unfashionable formats seriously, and this was one of their earliest experiments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoasted cocoa, malt and a soft grainy sweetness, with a dry, slightly bitter finish from the husks. Pour it cold and straight after dinner, or build it into an Espresso Martini, a mocha Old Fashioned or a shot of very good hot chocolate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288142966843,"sku":"13951-375","price":78.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/13951-375.png?v=1790124518"},{"product_id":"kings-county-empire-rye-whiskey","title":"Kings County Empire Rye Whiskey","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Empire Rye Whiskey is a New York rye made to the Empire Rye standard from Danko rye and English malt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmpire Rye came out of a 2015 agreement between six New York distilleries who wanted a whiskey style that belonged to their own state; the group has since grown to nine and keeps expanding. The rules are strict: a minimum of 75 per cent New York-grown rye, distillation to no more than 160 proof, at least two years in new oak, and mashing, fermenting, distilling, barrelling and ageing at a single New York distillery in a single season. This bottling uses 80 per cent New York Danko rye and 20 per cent Golden Promise English malt, aged at least two years in charred oak. Context helps: industry estimates suggest as much as 70 per cent of American rye comes from a single Indiana plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplex and glowing, with cinnamon, nutmeg, maple, mint and cut grass, finishing on warm bread and holiday spice. Neat with a drop of water shows it best. It also makes a superb Sazerac or Vieux Carré.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288143097915,"sku":"19553-750","price":245.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/19553-750.png?v=1790124457"},{"product_id":"kings-county-moonshine-200ml","title":"Kings County Moonshine 200ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Moonshine 200ml is an unaged corn whiskey from Brooklyn in a small-format bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite dog, white lightning, moonshine: whatever you call it, this is the distillery's spirit caught straight off the still with nothing added and no time in wood. The mash is 80 per cent organic New York State corn and 20 per cent malted barley from the United Kingdom, one of the highest malt proportions on any American whiskey mash bill. Double distillation in gooseneck copper pot stills at a deliberately low proof keeps flavour and weight in the spirit, and the cuts are exceptionally narrow, essentially the heart of the heart. No chill filtration, so the grain and corn oil characters survive intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBready, doughy, cornmeal aromas with pure bright intensity, then a pillowy, silky mouthfeel that is rare in unaged whiskey. Sip it cold and neat, or put it to work: it makes one of the best Bloody Marys going around.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288143228987,"sku":"13950-200","price":43.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/13950-200.png?v=1790124517"},{"product_id":"kings-county-moonshine-375ml","title":"Kings County Moonshine 375ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Moonshine 375ml is an unaged, unfiltered corn whiskey double distilled in copper pot stills.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNothing at all is added to this spirit, and nothing is taken away beyond the cuts. Eighty per cent organic corn from New York State and 20 per cent malted barley shipped from the United Kingdom make up the mash, a malt proportion few American distillers would contemplate, and the whole thing runs twice through gooseneck copper pot stills at a low distillation proof to keep richness and mouthfeel in the liquid. The distillers take very narrow cuts to draw off only the cleanest part of the run, and the spirit is bottled without chill filtration so the corn oils stay where they are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeductively perfumed, with bread dough and cornmeal leading into a silky, balanced palate. Excellent chilled and neat, better than most people expect. Mixed, it makes a formidable Bloody Mary or a bright, grainy sour with lemon and a little sugar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288143327291,"sku":"13950-375","price":81.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/13950-375.png?v=1790124516"},{"product_id":"kings-county-peated-bourbon","title":"Kings County Peated Bourbon","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Peated Bourbon is a Brooklyn bourbon made with a quarter peated Scottish malt, bottled at 45 per cent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story goes that a malted barley shortage forced the distillers to finish a batch with peated malt, and when they tasted the result a year later it was good enough to keep making. To be clear about what this is: not a bourbon finished in a peated cask, but a whiskey that meets the requirements for bourbon and happens to include peated malt in the mash. That malt was grown and kilned in Scotland and now accounts for 25 per cent of the grain bill alongside 75 per cent organic New York State corn. At least two years in new barrels gives it the weight. A hybrid of two traditions, in short.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobust and flavourful, with caramel and corn sweetness giving way to a lightly smoky, Scottish-inflected finish. Superb neat in a heavy glass. It also makes a killer Old Fashioned or a smoky Manhattan, with apologies to the rye purists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288143917115,"sku":"14827-750","price":196.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/14827-750.png?v=1790124517"},{"product_id":"kings-county-peated-bourbon-200ml","title":"Kings County Peated Bourbon 200ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Peated Bourbon 200ml is a peated-malt bourbon from Brooklyn in a small-format bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five per cent of the mash bill here is peated malt, grown and kilned in Scotland, with the remaining 75 per cent organic corn from New York State. That is an unusual grain recipe for something that still qualifies as bourbon, and it came about by accident when a malt shortage left the distillers reaching for whatever barley was on hand. The batch was so good a year later that it became a permanent line. Two years minimum in new charred barrels, double distilled in copper pot stills at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, bottled at 45 per cent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSweet corn and caramel up front, then a wisp of peat smoke through a warm, spicy finish. Neat is the way to understand it. 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This is not a classic bourbon put into a peated cask; it is a whiskey that conforms to the requirements for bourbon and is built with peated malt in the mash from the start. The malt was grown and kilned in Scotland and represents a quarter of the grain bill, with 75 per cent organic New York State corn making up the rest. Two traditions in one bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorn sweetness and vanilla first, then earthy smoke building through the finish. Drink it neat, or with a drop of water. It lifts an Old Fashioned considerably and makes a genuinely interesting Penicillin variation with honey and lemon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288144408635,"sku":"14827-375","price":102.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/14827-375.png?v=1790124518"},{"product_id":"kings-county-single-malt-whiskey-375ml","title":"Kings County Single Malt Whiskey 375ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Single Malt Whiskey 375ml is a lightly peated American single malt aged in used bourbon barrels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis whiskey came before the Peated Bourbon, and in fact caused it: a leftover batch of peated malt from a single malt run is what prompted the distillers to try peat in a bourbon mash. The barley here, with a hint of peat, comes from both English and Scottish granaries and is open-fermented before twice distilling in traditional Scottish pot stills. Maturation runs up to four years in used bourbon barrels, which keeps the wood influence restrained and lets the malt character sit forward. It is Scottish practice transplanted to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElegant and cereal-led, with malt biscuit, dried pear, honey and a faint whisper of smoke on the close. Neat, at room temperature, in a tulip glass. A few drops of water help. It also makes a surprisingly good Highball with plain soda.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288144572475,"sku":"15696-375","price":103.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/15696-375.png?v=1790124518"},{"product_id":"kings-county-straight-bourbon","title":"Kings County Straight Bourbon","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Straight Bourbon is a pot-distilled Brooklyn bourbon with a high-malt mash bill, bottled at 45 per cent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe core bourbon here turns up regularly on lists of the best made outside Kentucky, and the reason is the recipe. Eighty per cent organic corn from the Finger Lakes is joined by English Golden Promise barley, with no wheat and no rye at all, which is closer to a Scotch mash bill than an American one. That thinking carries through to the still house: double pot distillation, giving a purer and more flavourful white spirit, and then four to six years in a range of new charred oak barrels. The organic grain and the artisan method together are what make it taste the way it does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSweet caramel and fresh vanilla with a dark berry spice underneath, and real complexity for the age. Neat or over one large cube. It makes an excellent Old Fashioned, and a Boulevardier built on it is hard to beat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288144703547,"sku":"13949-750","price":196.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/13949-750.png?v=1790124518"},{"product_id":"kings-county-straight-bourbon-200ml","title":"Kings County Straight Bourbon 200ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eKings County Straight Bourbon 200ml is a high-malt Brooklyn bourbon in a 200ml bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost Kentucky bourbon uses wheat or rye as its secondary grain; this one uses English Golden Promise barley instead, alongside 80 per cent organic corn grown in the Finger Lakes. The whole approach borrows from Scotch practice, with double pot distillation in place of the column stills that dominate American whiskey production, and then four to six years in various new charred oak barrels. Founded in 2010, Kings County was the first whiskey distillery to operate in Brooklyn since Prohibition, and it has been housed in the Navy Yard's Paymaster Building since 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaramel, vanilla and dark berry spice over a warm, well-composed palate. Neat in a small pour, or over a single large cube. The 200ml bottle is the right size for two Old Fashioneds or for finding out whether this is your bourbon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Whisky \/ New York \/ Kings County","offer_id":44288144834619,"sku":"13949-200","price":61.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/13949-200.png?v=1790124517"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.divino.com.au\/collections\/whisky.oembed","provider":"DiVino.com.au","version":"1.0","type":"link"}