{"product_id":"yamazaki-suntory-excellence-japanese-sherry-cask-matured-pure-malt-whisky-1970s-76cl","title":"Yamazaki Suntory Excellence Japanese Sherry Cask Matured Pure Malt Whisky (1970s) 76cl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 28px;\"\u003eYamazaki Suntory Excellence Japanese Sherry Cask Matured Pure Malt Whisky (1970s) 76cl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an interesting \u0026amp; rare blend, distilled and vatted at Yamazaki, and matured in sherry-cured oak barrels. The bottle bears an unusual Scottish clan-style heraldic label. It is technically a blended single malt and not a blended whisky. There are a lot of mysterious releases for us these days to go back 50 years ago to see and discover. Some of them cost a hell of a lot more money today in the same formulas but in labels that are a bit newer with Japanese names to alongside the collection if you catch the drift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese bottles would have been produced using malt distilled at Yamazaki distillery. Suntory's grain whisky production was moved to Chita distillery during their expansion in the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA rare old whisky that is becoming a museum piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Yamazaki\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Yamazaki Distillery, established in 1923 by\u003cspan\u003e Shinjiro Torii\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as Japan's first malt whisky distillery, is the birthplace of Japanese whisky, a result of Torii's vision to create a unique whisky using a Japanese climate and pure water sources. After sending Masataka Taketsuru \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto learn from Scottish whisky masters, Yamazaki began production in 1924, laying the foundation for Suntory's now world-famous Japanese whiskies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The distillery's success was cemented by international acclaim, including Yamazaki Sherry Cask 2013 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewinning World Whisky of the Year, bringing global recognition to Japanese whisky.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"uJ19be notranslate\" data-wiz-uids=\"J01vfb_j,J01vfb_k\" data-processed=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vKEkVd\" data-animation-atomic=\"\" data-processed=\"true\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e43% ABV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e76cl\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yamazaki","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52784470982994,"sku":"000305","price":329.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/9737\/9666\/files\/4640846822_f4b97f66-7263-4f7f-9c25-32e19f159d97.jpg?v=1771929621","url":"https:\/\/whiskysituation.co.uk\/products\/yamazaki-suntory-excellence-japanese-sherry-cask-matured-pure-malt-whisky-1970s-76cl","provider":"Whisky Situation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}