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 →
