“I’ve found a new whisky to love. It’s a 26-year-old single malt from Hokkaido’s Yoichi distillery. It’s got oak and a gentle, sweet smokiness, a touch of leather, cherries, toasted almonds and I’m just making this up now, because after “oaky” and “a bit smoky,” I ran out of vocabulary.
Not that it matters. You fall in love with a whisky not by reading a list of increasingly tenuous tasting notes, but by swirling it in a glass until the aroma waltzes out, by sipping it straight or perhaps with a splash of water, and feeling the tingling heat as the flavors entwine.”
Whisky
The Japan Times, 27 November, 2009
“I’ve found a new whisky to love. It’s a 26-year-old single malt from Hokkaido’s Yoichi distillery. It’s got oak and a gentle, sweet smokiness, a touch of leather, cherries, toasted almonds and I’m just making this up now, because after “oaky” and “a bit smoky,” I ran out of vocabulary.
Not that it matters. You fall in love with a whisky not by reading a list of increasingly tenuous tasting notes, but by swirling it in a glass until the aroma waltzes out, by sipping it straight or perhaps with a splash of water, and feeling the tingling heat as the flavors entwine.”
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