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Yamazaki 10 Years Old Reviews
- Distillery
- Suntory: Yamazaki
- Style
- Single Malt
- Release
- Unspecified
- Age
- 10 Years
- Alcohol
- 40% abv.
- Region
- Japan
- Bottled For
- Distillery
Named after the town of Yamazaki, famed for its pure waters, tea ceremonies and samurai warriors. Main cask - Puncheon 1st fill, 2nd fill (predominantly American oak)
Yamazaki 10 Years Old
Review by Anonymous
- Color
- Cheap laminate flooring, a not-quite-right yellow brown.
- Nose
- Mixed peels, nutmeg, woodsmoke, something sweet that's not quite vanilla. Fairly complicated.
- Body
- Warm, round, quite full. What the nose leads you to expect.
- Palate
- Dry, quite sharp fruit. Seaweed. Dry rotted wood. A little dusty, but in a good way.
- Finish
- Slightly alcoholic, nasal. Tapers quickly.
Yamazaki 10 Years Old
Review by MP
- Color
- Gold
- Nose
- Dry Synthetic Fruits, malt, smoke
- Body
- Medium bodied.
- Palate
- Iodine, fennel, bittersweet,
- Finish
- long, lingering, honeyed.
This one is very good, my first tasting was just after a taste of blue label - so it actually tasted quite good. However, the second tasting was on a clean palate, and I have to say the smoky taste reminds me of Laphroaig - however the iodine is not as strong. This is a really good single malt - it's very well balanced, and has a nice sweet touch to it. Great value too! I'm tempted to give it a score in the 90's, but I think 89 will do.