By Richard Thomas “Whiskey just isn’t for old guys anymore” has jumped the shark and plunged deep into cliche territory. These days I think your are just as likely to find a whiskey snob among the ladies as you are a connoisseur of tequila, with plenty of casual whiskey drinkers in between. Enter Jenn Wong, a popular Los Angeles cutlure blogger, ...

By Jake Emen Rating: A- Nikka Whisky owns and operates two distinct distilleries in Japan. The oldest is the Yoichi distillery, built in 1934, located near the city of Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido. Nikka’s founder, Masataka Taketsuru, had studied at the University of Glasgow and came back to Japan with the ideals of creating authentic and distinguished scotch-style ...

By Jake Emen Rating: A Nikka’s Taketsuru line consists of several ages of pure malt whiskey — unlike with Scotch, Japanese whiskey is not prohibited from using the “pure malt” label — and Nikka simply uses the term to signify a vatted malt whiskey drawn from their Yoichi and Miyagikyo distilleries. The Taketsuru Pure Malt 12 Year Old is the ...