Akashi Single Malt 6 year old Red Wine Cask

Akashi Single Malt 6 years old Red Wine Cask is a whisky produced by White Oak distillery located in the south of Japan on the shores of the Seto Inland Sea. Its round nose expresses woody and fruity aromas of red fruits. Well-structured, it is intense on the palate and gives off notes of dried fruit and tannins, ending with a balance of flavors.

For this limited vintage, the Chef Blender of the House has carefully selected a few single malts aged for 5 years and a half in Cognac casks, then transferred them to the first fill red wine barrels for a maturing of ten months. Akashi Single Malt 6 years old Red Wine Cask is bottled as a single cask, uncolored and unchillfiltered, with an alcoholic strength of 50%.

Relatively unknown, White Oak distillery is nevertheless part of the history of Japanese whisky by being the first distillery in Japan to obtain a distillation license in 1888. However, it is only in 1919 that the discontinuous production of a malt spirits began and in 1984, a totally new facility dedicated to whisky production was established at the Eigashima site.