Sasanokawa Shuzo Co.
Sasanokawa Brewery, with a history of over 250 years as a sake brewery, obtained a license to produce whisky in 1946, continued to release products such as the YAMAZAKURA series, and in 2016 established the Asaka Distillery as a project to celebrate its 250th anniversary.
The Asaka Distillery has been gaining recognition both domestically and internationally year after year, including winning the world’s highest award in the blended malt whisky category at the World Whisky Awards (WWA) 2022 for its Yamazakura Blended Malt Japanese Whisky, Asaka Sherry Wood Reserve.
All of the whiskies entered in the 2025 WWA also won Gold or more.
Our company was founded in 1765. The license to produce whisky was obtained in 1946, and we continue to produce whisky as the oldest existing whisky manufacturer in Tohoku.
The distillery has continued to produce whisky steadily since it resumed distilling as “ Asaka Distillery”, and the original whisky that won the highest award in the world at the World Whisky Awards has now been made into “BLENDED MALT JAPANESE WHISKY MIZUNARA WOOD RESERVE”. We hope you will enjoy the unique characteristics given to the original sake by storing it in Mizunara oak barrels.
(Reference: back side of the bottle label).
At “BAR SHINKAI”, we offer small quantities such as 45ml: 8,250 yen, 30ml: 5,500 yen, and 15ml: 2,750 yen per glass.
For more information on the Blended malt Japanese whisky Asaka Mizunara Wood Reserve please see this article.
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