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 →
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 →
