Ashcraft, Brian, with Idzuhiko Ueda and Yuji Kawasaki. Japanese Whisky: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Desirable Spirit. Foreword by Lew Bryson. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2018.
Fukuyo distinguishes identifying aromas from designing a whisky. He describes considering the whole sensory experience and managing sufficient aged stock; using more than ten component types for Yamazaki 12 helps sustain its signature when individual components vary or become scarce.
Brian Ashcraft, with Idzuhiko Ueda and Yuji Kawasaki, Japanese Whisky: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Desirable Spirit (Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2018), supplied PDF pp. 164–166.
Brian Ashcraft, with Idzuhiko Ueda and Yuji Kawasaki, Japanese Whisky: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Desirable Spirit (Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2018), supplied PDF pp. 164–166.
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Ashcraft, Japanese Whisky, supplied PDF pp. 164–166.
Japanese Whisky (2018): full-reading evidence expansion
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Brian Ashcraft, with Idzuhiko Ueda and Yuji Kawasaki, Japanese Whisky: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Desirable Spirit (Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2018), supplied PDF pp. 164–166.
Supported interpretation
Fukuyo distinguishes identifying aromas from designing a whisky. He describes considering the whole sensory experience and managing sufficient aged stock; using more than ten component types for Yamazaki 12 helps sustain its signature when individual components vary or become scarce.
Suntory chief blender interview in the2018 book. Examples of200–300 sherried samples and ten-plus component types are his account of practice, not a disclosed fixed recipe.
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Academy use: distinguish discrimination, sensory design and inventory planning. Stable product character need not imply identical component proportions; do not present this as a universal minimum component count.
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