The last distillery we visited on our Nippon journey 2019 was maybe the most interesting. 23 km west of the town Sendai is Miyagikyo located on the main island Honshu in Miyagi Prefecture, carefully placed in a glen where the two rivers Shinkawa and Hirose meets among the surrounding mountains, how beautiful can it be? Miyagikyo was in production 1969,… Read more →
On our Nippon tour 2019 we visited one of the smaller distilleries in Japan, “Chichibu”. Chichibu may be small in production volume but all the bigger when it comes to quality and tradition. The tradition is held by the founder Ichiro Akuto who started building the distillery in 2004 and it was in operation 2008. Ichiro Akuto is grandson of… Read more →
Ever since I, as a little boy, heard the worldwide hit Sukiyaki (sung by Kyu Sakamoto) I´ve been imagined about going to Japan. And, when you´re a member of the board of KWA, your dreams could come true! So, on April 13th we left Copenhagen Airport for Tokyo and started our trip around this fantastic country. We start at the… Read more →
At the 26th of august 2017 Christer Lagestig at Gammalsbygården, Öland, hosted a tasting to be remembered, led by Magnus Fagerström, a well-known name in whisky business in Sweden. Christer is a whisky lover with a special preference for Highland Park and this evening he picked up some special bottles from his collection that he offered to the tasting. How… Read more →
In 1981 the Australian band Men at Work sang” Do you come from a land down under?” The reply from KWA could be:” No, but we went there on February 9th”. So, we started our visit in Australia spending four days in Melbourne, a beautiful city we´ve never seen before. There, at the Rod Laver Arena, we attended a concert… Read more →
The 8th distillery to join KWA’s Hall Of Fame In 2017 was KWA on a journey in US Tennessee, then we visit George A. Dickel distillery. The distillery is placed in Cascade Hollow near Normandy City at Bedford County in the rolling woodlands of southern middle Tennessee in the heart of horse, antique, space, and whiskey country, very beautiful indeed.… Read more →
After visiting Kentucky in 2014 we just couldn´t wait to go to another great whiskey state in the U S, i. e Tennessee. Therefore, when our journey on Holy Thursday started with our airplane, before taking off, crashing a seagull at Kalmar Airport forcing us to change our travelling plan it felt a little troublesome. Anyway, we reached Nashville late… Read more →
In 2016, KWA on the “Campbeltown and Lowland” tour visited Springbank. Far south on the Kintyre Peninsula, in the small town of Campbeltown, Springbank Distillery has its domicile. If there is any town that really dates back to when it comes to making whiskey, it’s Cambeltown. Once upon a time, there were 28 producers of whisky here and Campbeltown was… Read more →
On our trip 2016 to “Campbeltown and Lowland” during our stay in Campbeltown KWA went on a warehouse tasting arranged by the independent bottler Cadenhead’s. Cadenhead’s is Scotland’s oldest independent bottler. They were established in 1842 and are still releasing fantastic whisky every year from their whisky stock and they are never ever use or uses chill-filtering or coloring. The… Read more →
Only two (Campbeltown and Lowland) of the Scotch whisky regions left for KWA to visit so that´s what we decided to do in Eastertime 2016. Starting off from Kalmar in the dark hours of Easter Sunday night we reached Campbeltown in the southern parts of Scotland late in the evening that same day. So; rise and shine the next morning… Read more →
