Ohishi Sherry Cask Regular Whisky 750ml

Ohishi Sherry Cask is a Japanese whisky from the Ohishi Distillery in Kumamoto, a producer better known for rice shochu that also finishes select whisky in sherry wood. Because the base spirit draws on the distillery's rice-distilling background rather than a traditional malt-and-grain Scotch-style production, Ohishi's whisky reads differently from the bigger Japanese houses — a softer, slightly sweeter spirit that takes well to sherry cask influence. Expect dried fruit, nutty sherry notes, and a gentle spice layered over that rice-forward base, with a smooth, mellow finish rather than heavy peat or oak. It's a bottle for whisky drinkers who want to step outside the mainstream Japanese single malt names.

How to drink Ohishi Sherry Cask

Neat is the way to meet this one first, since the sherry cask character and rice-spirit base are both easy to lose behind ice. A few drops of water can help if the sherry notes feel closed off at first.

Japanese WhiskySherry cask · Kumamoto, Japan