Akashi White Oak Blend - Half Litre

INFORMATION

Akashi White Oak Blended Japanese Whisky. 500ml. 40%.

DISTILLERY:White Oak (Eigashima Shuzo)

Bottle ABV:40%

Bottle SIZE:50cl / 500ml

BOTTLER:Distillery Bottling

SPIRIT TYPE:Japan

CASK TYPE:Blended Whisky

White Oak is the anglicised name of Eigashima Shuzo distillery in Japan’s Hyogo prefecture. Eigashima Shuzo / White Oak distillery was built in 1888 by Hyokichi Urabe, whose family had made sake since 1679, as a separate venture to make spirit for shochu. White Oak obtained Japan’s first licence to distil whisky in 1919 - a few years before the construction of the nearby Yamazaki distillery.

The original ‘whiskies’ made at White Oak were rice spirit imitations, but in the early 1960s two pot stills were installed at Eigashima to make proper single malt whisky for a couple of months each year. In 1984 these stills were retired and a new building with bigger stills was constructed, though most spirit production is still for shochu. White Oak’s blended and single malt whiskies appear most often under the company’s Akashi and Tokinoka brands.