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 →
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 →
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 →
KWA is right now attending our tour in Campbeltown and Lowlands. After a four hour long bus ride from Glasgow began our Easter Monday with Double Distillery Tour led by Jim, who introduced us to Springbank as well as Glengyle. Very nice and educational. At noon we visited Cadenhead’s where Fraser Milloy guided us through a range of good whiskies.… Read more →
Check out the Hall of Fame’s latest additions, the Highland Park distillery at the main island of Orkney. Read about Kirkwall, our meeting with James at their Connoisseur Tour and other at the page about the distilleries. Read more →
After having met Fred Laing of Douglas Laing and Co at Whiskyexpo in Linköping, Sweden in February of 2015 where he made a great impression upon us we decided that we really would like to visit him in the Douglas House for a tasting during our trip to Northern Highlands and the Orkney Islands in April of 2015. When we… Read more →
In 2013 KWA went to Ireland. Bushmills is located on Northern Ireland near the cost just around 40 km from Islay. So from Bushmills you can almost smell the peat smoke from the distilleries on Islay. But Bushmills doesn’t make whisky with peat. Bushmills whisky is a in the opposite direction, triple distilled and very smooth. The distilling in the… Read more →
On the 2012 journey KWA visited Lagavulin. Lagavulin is located at the Lagavulin bay on the south cost of Islay. The area around the bay was ones a time the smugglers paradise. In the middle of the 1700 it have use to ben around ten illicit distilleries around the bay. So the area is holy ground for whisky lovers. It… Read more →
