Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.
Tasting
How it drinks
Sight
Darkest of the age-stated Yoichis — deep garnet-tinged mahogany, the colour of old port wine. At cask strength, legs fall slowly, broad and thick.
Nose
Twenty Hokkaido winters have transformed the spirit. Smoke House peat transmuted into ghost of fire in old timber. Library arrives prominently: old bindings, aged parchment, ink, oak-panelled room. Leather deepened to chamois, vintage saddle. Fruit ancient and preserved: Christmas cake, mincemeat, Morello cherry in brandy. Bar offers dried PX sherry and Madeira. Tobacco Shop permanent resident: cigar box, cedar, pipe tobacco warmth.
Palate
Cask strength demands water. Direct-fired richness now archaeological bedrock. Dark chocolate become 85% cocoa — dry, bitter, refined. Peat as smoked wood — charred inner cask wall. Christmas cake, candied orange peel, dark plum regal and concentrated. Long ristretto note. Walnut bitters. Walk to Lighthouse salinity mineral and precise — wet flint, sea clay.
Finish
Extraordinary length — fifteen to twenty minutes of layered collapse. Library and Tobacco Shop hold longest: parchment, cigar cedar, pipe tobacco memory. Walk to Lighthouse closes with pure chalk mineral, cool and silent as a winter headland. An absence that feels earned.
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
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