Yamazaki distillery

secondary fermentation for a week just to let the lactic acid bacteria go bonkers um you know having separate fermentations and marrying them uh slow distillations and we might you know we've got a worm tub as well so we want to know what all the temperature is everywhere i think i don't think the sites had ever had as many temperature transmitters and they still joke about it actually and yeah i think it it was really really awesome to be out of engineering those things

yeah i think what I'm seeing in terms of this new progression of the Sullivan's Cove I guess system and distillery is more Japanese in a lot of ways where you have if you think about how Yamazaki and Hakushu and you know multiple other Japanese distilleries operate they have the ability to create different spirit styles in-house at the one place which then just opens up this incredible you know Pandora's box of potential where you can go down all these different avenues in terms of flavor creation and creating completely different styles and and creating different forms of single malt from the one place, which is definitely not something I've seen too much in Australia.

Do you think that would be, is that a good comparison for people out there to sort of wrap their head around? Because we're not, you've sort of left in a lot of ways Scottish single malt territory, which is basically, it's not always the case.

Lots of ancillaries do create different styles at the one place as well, but it's more been engineered over, you know, many decades and even longer just to

...

I had an amazing Japanese whiskey tasting, uh, where we had the brand ambassador for, um, Yamazaki and, and Hakushu with us and, you know, that really sort of behind the scenes stuff really shone through, um, and yeah-

Mm

... very memorable, um, for me.

And that it's, yeah, they're unveiling it at this Whiskey Fest seminar, as well as a 38 year olds that they'll be pouring.

And then Suntory will also be there pouring Yamazaki, Highland Park, 30 and 40 year olds, Loch Lomond.

has 33 year old little mill and a Glen Scotia, um, Irish distillers pouring Middleton.

And yeah, so the focus really for these seminars is these ultra age kind of rarefied whiskeys.

It's going to be, you're going to have them all together.

You

don't have to choose between the Yamazaki.

That's like to say,

And Yoichi is the home of the distillery that makes Nikka's Yoichi whiskey.

I've been to the whiskey distillery at Yamazaki, which coincidentally makes Yamazaki whiskey.

Yamazaki whiskey continues to be my favorite whiskey in all the world, but it was nice going to the Nica Whiskey Distillery.

They have a massive apple grove.

And so when you're there, unless you're inside a building, the entire place just smells like apples.

And, yeah.

The tour was nice.

Yamazaki has it clapped in every other aspect outside of aroma though because Yamazaki is nestled between two fucking mountains and it's genuinely one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to in my entire fucking life.