When the Japanese started making whisky in the 1920s, even they didn’t want to use mizunara oak. That’s because mizunara takes a ridiculously long time to reach maturation — more than 200 years.

Notoriously leaky and wildly expensive Japanese Mizunara oak barrels have become an object of obsession among makers of Scotch whisky, Irish whiskey and bourbon. Distillers value the finicky ...

all matured exclusively in Mizunara oak casks for at least 18 years. The exact components of the vatting are not known, but it is likely that age statement whiskies beyond 18 years were also ...

From the Kurayoshi Distillery comes The Matsui Mizunara Cask, which unsuprisingly has been aged in rare Japanese Mizunara oak. The no age statement single malt was bottled at 48% ABV, after blending ...