Useful for distinguishing age from desired maturity. This is an attributed producer account and the author's conceptual explanation, not a measured maturation model or evidence that NAS whisky is generally superior. Product availability belongs to the narrated period.
Mount Fuji, revised 2025 edition retaining an earlier visit narrative. The discussion follows stock shortages and contrasts chronological age with a spirit's changing balance.
Broom presents Jota Tanaka's use of no-age-statement blending as access to a wider stock palette and describes maturation as different developmental curves for spirit styles, cask types and warehouse positions.
p. 24; PDF sheet 39
p. 24; PDF sheet 39
Mount Fuji
Fresh text and rendered-page audit: preserved 420-sheet Notion copy, sheet 39, displayed p. 24. Paraphrase fidelity verified; independent causal validation and current product status not established.
Evidence
Broom presents Jota Tanaka's use of no-age-statement blending as access to a wider stock palette and describes maturation as different developmental curves for spirit styles, cask types and warehouse positions.
Location and context
p. 24; PDF sheet 39 through p. 24; PDF sheet 39. These screen locators refer to the preserved 420-sheet Notion attachment, not the differently paginated 383-sheet Movies copy.
Mount Fuji, revised 2025 edition retaining an earlier visit narrative. The discussion follows stock shortages and contrasts chronological age with a spirit's changing balance.
Critical assessment and Academy use
Useful for distinguishing age from desired maturity. This is an attributed producer account and the author's conceptual explanation, not a measured maturation model or evidence that NAS whisky is generally superior. Product availability belongs to the narrated period.
Verification
Fresh text and rendered-page audit: preserved 420-sheet Notion copy, sheet 39, displayed p. 24. Paraphrase fidelity verified; independent causal validation and current product status not established.
Source, citation, Literature Note and tag relations are preserved. Book-level copy collation and complete linked-record verification remain open.