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Japanese Whisky of the Year - Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2008

“Word, then, is clearly getting around that Japanese whiskies, in whatever form, are worth finding. And that word gets ever larger and louder spoken when relatively unknown distilleries like Hanyu can produce bottling of the magnitude King of Diamonds which has scooped Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2008 Japanese Whisky of the Year. This is not just good whisky; it is great whisky on the world stage and must give confidence for Japanese distillers to take on markets they had previously thought the domain of Scotch and bourbon.The arrival of the Hanyu malts into my lab is further proof that, for the very first time, there is now both a Japanese whisky industry which believes it might just have a product worth the effort of selling around the world and importers keen to get their hands on it and take the plunge.”

Full House - Whisky Magazine Issue 64

Dave Broom looks at the story behind the new Japanese whisky company which is upping the anté
"The gasp-inducing winner of the World Whiskies Awards Best Japanese whisky under 12 years was Ichiro’s Malt, Two of Clubs, a frisky little six-year-old from the Hanyu distillery finished in Japanese oak. It's the whisky equivalent of the Arctic Monkeys beating U2 at the Grammys."