TOGOUCHI WhiskySake Cask Finish
戸河内ウイスキー 酒カスクフィニッシュ
Finished in casks that held the producer's own Junmai sake, adding green apple, white grape and a gently koji-like finish.
Junmai sake casks bridge aroma and acidity.
Togouchi blended whisky is finished for about three months in casks used for the house's Junmai sake. The result is not sake flavour as such, but a lift of fruit, white-wine-like acidity and a gently koji-like finish.
Togouchi base
A light malt-and-grain blend leaves space for the delicate cask influence.
House Junmai casks
The whisky spends about three months in casks used for the producer's Junmai sake.
Fruit and acidity
Melon and Muscat-like sweetness is balanced by white-wine-like acidity.
From green apple to white grape, carried by bright acidity.
Green apple and gentle spice open the aroma. Melon and Muscat-like sweetness meet white-wine-like acidity, leading to a finish of white grape and malt.
Choose the serve to match the profile.
Neat
Begin with the cask-led aroma and finish in their clearest form.
A few drops of water
A little water opens the layers and settles the sweet-bitter balance.
Highball
Soda gives the distinctive finish a brighter, more refreshing shape.
Along the white-wine-like acidity and a koji-like finish
The finish in the house’s own Junmai sake casks is explained on this page, but no food pairing is stated. The four directions below are read from the recorded aroma and taste structure. Two threads run through it: a run of fruit from green apple through melon, muscat and white grape, and a white-wine-like acidity together with a koji-like finish that places it in the same lineage as fermentation-derived ingredients.
Food-pairing literature describes how fermentation-derived aromas and umami tend to connect with ingredients from the same fermentation lineage. The koji-like finish left by the Junmai sake cask tends to run in the same direction as fermented foods and aged cheese.
Two maturation settings: coast and mountain.
Based in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, SAKURAO B&D works with two contrasting environments: the coastal setting of Sakurao and the mountain setting of Togouchi. Maturation site and cask are selected to give each expression a clearly defined profile.
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