Yamazakura Merlot Wine Cask Finish is a 2019 limited edition release for Japanese Mitsukoshi Isetan department store.

This whisky was distilled at the old Yamazakura distillery which closed in 1998 after being merged into Sasanokowa.

Content 700ml - volume 46%

This Yamazakura Port Wine Cask Finish was released in 2019 for Mitsukoshi Isetan, blended from stocks distilled at the old Yamazakura distillery which closed in 1998 after being merged into Sasanokowa.

Content 700ml - volume 46%

Matsui Shuzo Kurayoshi 21 years old Pure Malt.

Content 700ml - volume 48%

Yamazakura 9 years old Pure Malt Cask Strenght, distilled prior to 1998. This is a blend of two malt whiskies, one aged in Sherry Casks for 9 years which has been blended with a 15-year old whisky.

Content 700ml - volume 56%

Yamazakura 10 years old Pure Malt is a blend of two malt whiskies, one aged in Bourbon for 10 years, the other in Bourbon for 9 years and in New American Oak for one more year. Finished in Mizunara Wood, bottled in 2017.

This whisky was distilled at the old Yamazakura distillery which closed in 1998 after being merged into Sasanokowa.

Content 700ml - volume 59%

This Asaka Yamazakura, distilled in 2017, is a limited release of 475 bottles for the 2022 Chichibu Whisky Festival. Aged for 5 years on a combination of Bourbon Casks #17128 and 17130.

Content 700ml - volume 62%

This Yamazakura Pure Malt 15 years old was released in Spring 2015, one of 2400 bottles.

The whisky was distilled at the old Yamazakura distillery which closed in 1998 after being merged into Sasanokowa.

Content 700ml - volume 43%

Asaka Yamazakura The First is a 2019 limited release of 1500 bottles.

Content 700ml - volume 50%

This Yamazakura Pure Malt has been bottled at cask strength in Spring 2015.

As this whisky was distilled at the old Yamazakura distillery, which closed in 1998 after being merged into Sasanokowa, it is actually older as stated.

Content 550ml - volume 59%

Yamazakura Sherry Wood Finish is a 9 year old cask strength release for Mitsukoshi Isetan, Japan's largest department store group. Bottled from pre-1998 Yamazakura stocks.

Content 700ml - volume 56%

Asaka Yamazakura 55 Malt & Grain is a 2017 limited edition blended whisky whereby 55 is a reference to the ABV.

Content 700ml - volume 55%

Asaka Yamazakura 2022 Edition, matured in Bourbon barrels.

Content 700ml - volume 50%

Yamazakura Rare Old Whisky Ultimate Edition, distilled 1965, is a 2015 limited edition of 60 decanters, bottled for Takashimaya.

Content 500ml -volume 55%

Selected by Japanese whisky godfather, Stefan van Eycken with Hideo Yamaoka as part of their 'Ghost Series', edition #15 is a 4-year-old Akashi, made from single malts matured in sherry and bourbon barrels which were then vatted in a Tawny Port cask for one more year.

The label is based on the woodblock print series 'New Forms of Thirty-six Ghosts (1889-1892)' by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, an ukiyo-e painter who was active from the end of the Edo period to the middle of the Meiji period, and expresses the unique aspects of Japanese whisky. This is 1 of 849 bottles.

Content 50cl - volume 61,5%

Mars Amber Rare Old is a blended whisky, distilled at the old Hobo brewery, bottled at the end of the 1970's

Content 720ml - volume 40%

Shirakawa Gold King Deluxe is a malt whisky, bottled in the 1970s.

Content 760ml - volume 43%

Shirakawa King Extra is a blended whisky, bottled in the 1970s, containing not just Japanese whisky but also Scotch Malt whisky from Aberlour, Laphroaig and Macallan.

Content 720ml - volume 74° Proof

Shirakawa Single Malt is amongst the rarest of it's kind on the planet. The final remaining Shirakawa vintage malt was identified in Takara Shuzo’s Kurokabegura in 2019. The liquid had been distilled in 1958, aged in cask, then transferred to ceramic jars at the distillery. When Shirakawa closed, it was put into stainless steel tanks at Takara Shuzo’s factory in Kyushu where it lay untouched until 2019. This whisky was bottled and released on the market on 13th September 2022.

According to experts there is no other Single Malt Shirakawa known to exist but yet we have one: Shirakawa King Whisky Pure Malt 12 years old, not to be confused with the blended Shirakawa which was sold under the same name, often containing Scottish malts from Aberlour, Macalland and Laphroaig.. This bottle appears to be a 1980's release and, as such, it's highly unlikely it does containing anything else then Shirakawa Pure (Single) Malt.

Content 720ml - volume 43%

This whisky was distilled in 1958 (not 1957 as has been stated many times) and bottled in 1967 for The Japan Bartenders Association by when it was around 10 years old. The name Byron refers to Lord George Gordon Byron, an English peer, poet and politician (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824).