The Top 10 Japanese Whiskey: A Guide to the Best of the Best
Japanese whiskey has a relatively short but fascinating history. It all started in 1923 when Shinjiro Torii, the founder of Suntory, built Japan’s first whiskey distillery in Yamazaki. He hired Masataka Taketsuru, a young man who had studied the art of whiskey-making in Scotland, as his assistant. Taketsuru went on to found his own distillery, …