Sasanokawa (Asaka) Distillery
笹の川酒造 安積蒸溜所
Fukushima (Koriyama), Japan·est. 2016·active·Sasanokawa Shuzo Co.
Tohoku heritageClean, delicate, sake-brewery precisionHouse SasanokawaVisitor centre
56
prestige index
Prestige
56/100
Tracked expressions
2
Avg retail
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Highest auction
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The Story
The Asaka malt distillery of Sasanokawa Shuzo — a 1765 sake house holding a whisky licence since 1946, a Tohoku pioneer.
Production
Still heating
Steam-heated pot stills
Water
Adatara mountain snowmelt
Climate
Humid continental Tohoku; hot summers, snowy winters
Maturation
Warehousing at a historic sake-and-shochu house in the Koriyama basin
Tracked expressions2 bottles · sorted by age
Expression
Status
Fair retail
12-mo
Asaka The First Peated3 Year Old · 50% · limited edition
Discontinued
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Sasanokawa Yamazakura Blended WhiskyNAS · 40%
Core range
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