Touring Japan has always been a life-long dream of mine and to combine it with learning more about whiskey making was truly excellent. Japan has a beautiful appreciate for culture and tradition, something I greatly admire, which carries over to everything they do

At the beginning of this year, Amanda & I committed to taking a few trips to continue learning about whiskey. Our goal has always been to make the best tasting, traditional single malt stateside. In recent years the Japanese single malts have been winning top spots in many of the international awards. For this reason, Amanda arranged to visit many of the Japanese distilleries with an interpreter to see if we could learn anything new.

Nick and I’s philosophy has always been to create the best Single Malt Sates-side as possible. To do this we believe in using the highest quality ingredients and barrels. So we decided to take a quick trip to France to learn about wine making and their barrel aging process.