Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.
Tasting
How it drinks
Sight
Pale gold with a slight green tint — lighter than standard NAS, reflecting higher proportion of younger spirit chosen for peat character.
Nose
Smoke House opens wide. Yoichi's most declarative peat expression: creosote-edged peat, not Islay's medicinal phenol but earthier, more agricultural. Genuine coastal brine from Walk to Lighthouse — standing on Hokkaido shore in November. Faint plum skin which peat quickly overwhelms. Driftwood fire on a northern beach, seaweed catching the edge of flames.
Palate
Peat arrives first, oily and textured — direct-fire weight carrying the smoke. Walk to Lighthouse sea salt amplifies rather than competes with peat: maritime peat character entirely distinct from Islay or Orkney. Smoked fish and oysters surface mid-palate — kippers, anchovy salt. Light grain sweetness underneath — oatmeal, roasted barley. Savoury mineral dryness.
Finish
Long on smoke and salt. Walk to Lighthouse closes: chalk, wet stone, salt air, sea shells. Smoke House peat lingers as ash and rope. Grain note dries palate cleanly. The expression for those who want Yoichi in its most elemental register.
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
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