Hi everyone,
A quick review today from Japan. I always find Hakushu to be quite interesting because they use heavily peated barley but comes across as very lightly peated in flavour. Do I know why this is? No, and I’m too lazy a whisky reviewer to actually do some research so it will remain a mystery to me forevermore.
Hakushu Distiller's Reserve 43%
Colour: Light Gold
Body: Light/Medium
Nose: Quite light with average oak, some herbal notes, pine needles, creamy vanilla, mint,
Taste: Very creamy mouthfeel, very soft, vanilla, cream soda, mint, some oak comes in, pine needles then a little more smoky with faint ash and very delicate threads of wood smoke.
Finish: Short/Medium length. Some more of that very average oak, and some delicate smoke and ash.
The delicate smoke works really well here, but other than that its pretty average.
68/100
Distillery: Hakushu
Average Score: 72.3
[Distillery Ranking: (http://www.daveswhiskyreviews.com/p/distillery-rankings.html) 41st/62 places
Up/Down: Down 10
Thanks for reading!
Japanese Review #21
Whisky Network Review #787
Network Average: 75.0
Best Score: 94
Worst Score: 12
0-49 Terrible
50-59 Bad
60-64 Just About OK
65-69 Ok to Good
70-74 Good
75-79 Very Good
80-84 Excellent
85-89 Superb
90+ Magnificent
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