The Yamazaki Single Malt Sherry Cask 2013 was described as “thick, dry, as rounded as a snooker ball” by Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible, which awarded it a record-matching 97.5 points out of 100.

Ninety-one years later, a sherry cask expression of single malt from ... malt whiskies from Suntory’s storied single malt sites—Yamazaki, outside Osaka, and Hakashu in the forested foothills ...

Each cask is made from four different types of oak: ex-bourbon American oak (ex-bourbon), ex-sherry Spanish oak, ex-Bordeaux French oak, and Japanese mizunara oak. “Each Yamazaki expression is a ...