26-12-14, 11:38 AM
There was a thing on the news a few weeks back, the Japanese cleaned up at the annual scotch awards!
They've been making good stuff for years, apparently - probably mostly in an attempt to get it cheaper than importing from Scotland. I recall when I was at the edradour distillery, they said the largest export market they have was Japan, despite the massive import tax that the punter in Japan has to pay. Think they said there was more edradour single malt sold in Japan than Scotland. Which is a little bit bonkers!
They've been making good stuff for years, apparently - probably mostly in an attempt to get it cheaper than importing from Scotland. I recall when I was at the edradour distillery, they said the largest export market they have was Japan, despite the massive import tax that the punter in Japan has to pay. Think they said there was more edradour single malt sold in Japan than Scotland. Which is a little bit bonkers!