It’s Japan. It’s motherfucking Japan. Japan now makes the best whisky in the world.
Debatable? Not if you take the word of Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible, which is an annual ranking of the world’s best whiskys.
For it, each year, Murray tastes over 1,000 whiskys to determine what he thinks is best. This year, it’s Yamazaki Single Malt Sherry Cask from Japan.
Murray had some breathlessly hyperbolic speak for it, saying the whisky was a “near indescribable genius.”
It’s the first time ever that Japan has topped the world whisky rankings. It also sounds delicious.
The drink, of which only 1,600 bottles have been made, is aged in Oloroso sherry butts for around 12 to 15 years, giving it what Murray called a “nutty, thick, dry [taste]… as rounded as a snooker ball”.
I would like some of that, except that it retails at $160. Which actually ain’t that bad for the best whisky in the world. Just not when you are a blogger.
Meanwhile, America kicked some fucking ass, with William Larue Weller and Sazerac Rye 18 Year Old coming in second and third place
Scotland, though? Scotland fucking SUCKED this year. Not one Scottish scotch was considered one of the top five whiskys in the world. The country also didn’t even win best European whisky. That went to some shit from England.
Scotland. What the fuck?
[H/T Grub Street]