Suntory The Essence of Suntory Volume 3 Clean Type Japanese Blended Whisky (2019) 50cl

Suntory The Essence of Suntory Volume 3 Clean Type Blended Whisky (2019) 50cl

Produced by Suntory, this release is the third in the Essence of Suntory Whisky series. This expression is blended whisky which uses Hakushu matured in both Cedar & white oak barrels and grain whisky from the Chita distillery. This expression has been matured for an undisclosed period of time before being bottled at 48% abv.

Released at the end of 2019, this is from Volume 3 in the Essence of Suntory range of whiskies.

it is believed that these have been aged for six or more years in casks with cedar heads. These whiskies have been blended with Hakushu malt whiskies aged in white oak casks and clean-type Chita grain whiskies.

Suntory are one of the founding fathers of Japanese whisky, established by Shinjirō Torii in 1899 as a wine store in Osaka. The venture was hugely successful, and the company was renamed Kotobukiya in 1921, which built its first distillery three years later, Yamazaki. The distillery produced both malt and grain whiskies which the company blended together, releasing its first Suntory White Label in 1929, the resulting popularity of which saw the firm renamed after it 1963. Expansion in the next decade saw the company move its grain production to a new Chita distillery in 1972, and open a second malt distillery, Hakushu, the following year. Suntory today has a large stake in both the bourbon and Scotch whisky industry, but remains at the forefront of its native whisky market too.

48% ABV

50cl