Kujira Inari Ryukyu, 46%

Inari is the god of rice cultivation in Japanese mythology. Baked apple, pear, date, and white pepper on the nose, with a hint of aniseed, fresh fig, guava, rowan jelly, and violin rosin. This is a beautifully compact and expressive rice whisky from Masahiro Shuzo, one of Okinawa’s oldest distilleries, with flavors of apple, orange marmalade, butterscotch, barley sugar, white pepper, and a mouth-coating finish of spices and cooked fruit.