A second spherical of canned cocktails from Japan’s oldest malt whisky distillery.
Japan has had canned cocktails for a few years, however for lots of their early historical past they weren’t precisely thought of high-class drinks. With their ingredient lists typically containing plenty of synthetic flavorings and low-cost types of booze, canned cocktails have been an economical and not-non-tasty technique to get your buzz on, however not essentially all that consultant of cocktail tradition.
There are nonetheless loads of canned cocktails that match that description, however there are exceptions too, and an particularly interesting one is on the best way from Suntory, one among Japan’s high whisky makers, who’s placing one among their high spirits into the beverage with the Suntory Premium Highball Yamazaki, pictured above.
Because the title implies, that is a canned highball utilizing Suntory’s prized single malt Yamazaki whisky, which is produced on the firm’s Yamazaki distillery in Osaka Prefecture. Opened in 1923, the Yamazaki distillery was Japan’s very first malt whisky distillery, and Suntory says Yamazaki whisky’s deep taste is ideally fitted to highballs.
That is truly Suntory’s second time to supply canned Yamazaki highballs, with the primary batch having been launched final yr to have fun the corporate’s one hundredth anniversary of whisky-making, seen on this photograph from our taste-testing session.
Nevertheless, the 2023 model touted its use of Quercus (English) oak, with the beverage carrying the subtitle of “The Lingering Reminiscence of Quercus Oak.” For the brand new model, Suntory is boasting in regards to the taste enhancements that come from the usage of Spanish oak barrels, and the drink’s full official title is now Suntory Premium Highball Yamazaki-Vivid and Wealthy Taste, suggesting that it’s greater than a straight re-release of the 2023 drink.
With an alcohol content material of 9 p.c and a value of 600 yen (US$4.30), the Suntory Premium Highball Yamazaki-Vivid and Wealthy Taste is each stronger and dearer than the common canned cocktail in Japan, however contemplating how a lot we loved final yr’s Lingering Reminiscence of Quercus Oak (and the way costly Yamazaki whisky itself is), we’re not complaining. The brand new Yamazaki canned highballs go on sale December 24 in restricted portions, so we’ll be conserving our fingers crossed that Santa leaves one in our stocking.
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