Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.
Tasting
How it drinks
Sight
Pale straw gold — the lightest Yoichi ever released, absent the colour contribution of peated malt. Crystal clear.
Nose
Yoichi distilled from unpeated malt — the distillery's DNA without its signature peat. Direct-fired pot still richness fully present: the oily, weighty character that defines Yoichi is NOT from peat, revealed here as purely a function of the coal-fired stills. Stone fruit intensified without smoke mask: fresh peach, apricot, plum blossom. Sweet Shop vanilla and toffee from bourbon cask. Bakery malt and warm grain. Walk to Lighthouse maritime salt still present — terroir, not peat.
Palate
Revelatory: Yoichi's direct-fired weight and oily texture exist completely independent of peat. The spirit's backbone is distillation method, not raw material. Peach and apricot dominate mid-palate. Vanilla and butterscotch from bourbon wood. Malty, grainy, almost biscuity. Maritime salt thread — Hokkaido climate writing itself into the spirit. Remarkably full-bodied for an unpeated whisky.
Finish
Medium-long. Peach and vanilla fade together. Maritime mineral chalk emerges clean. Malty grain dries the palate. The most important single data point in the Yoichi range: it proves the direct-fired pot still character IS the house style — peat is an ingredient, not the identity.
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
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