Yamazaki 12 Year Old Japanese Whisky

Yamazaki Whisky is Suntory’s flagship single malt whisky, from Japan’s first and oldest malt distillery, multi-layered with fruit and Mizunara aromas.

Yamazaki 12 is a surprising and delicate yet profound experience of a Japanese single malt whisky.

• Tasting Notes for CLASS Magazine

  • APPEARANCE

    Clear dark golden with burnished gold highlights.

  • AROMA

    Cinnamon, red apple, muscovado sugar and jasmine blossom.

  • TASTE

    Medium bodied and honeyed in style, this easy vanilla malt bursts with apple fruit and jasmine freshness but is made complex thanks to notes of candied orange peel, cinnamon and clove spice and balancing dusty cigarette ash and cedarwood dryness.

  • AFTERTASTE

    Woody oxidized pineapple notes linger on the pleasant finish.

• Rating

• 4.5/5.

• Producer’s Tasting Notes

  • Yamazaki is the first Japanese distillery established 1923. The distillery is situated in the vale of Yamazaki, an area of dense bamboo grooves at the foot of Mt. Tennozan outside Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital and stronghold of traditional Japanese culture.

    The spiced wood arrives first then dried cranberries with a lasting muddle of orange marmalade and honey sweetness.